Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek's Linkedin Analytics

Dr. Joan Palmiter Bajorek is an Entrepreneur, Influencer, and Investor. Her career moves the needle for Technical and Social Innovation. -- Once upon a time, Joan was a PhD student with big dreams. She LOVED linguistics, data, and storytelling. In her PhD comps papers, she uncovered for herself the biased datasets being leveraged to create speech recognition systems. She spoke at events and began interviewing at tech companies. But there were very few women and Black folks on interview loops. At conferences. In buildings where projects were created. She realized either she was complicit in normalizing this, or she needed to do something. She launched Women in Voice in August 2018 while living in her parents' basement. Thanks, parents! People around the world signed up for leadership positions in weeks. She landed a six figure job in AI (Nuance acquired by Microsoft for $16B+ in 2021). By July 2019, she spoke at VentureBeat as a CEO and President of this international community she'd built. This became her superpower: translating technical depth into data-driven storytelling She published her PhD comps paper in Harvard Business Reviews. Working on her technical career at enterprise, agency, and startups, she bootstrapped Women in Voice on nights and weekends. As a VP of Data and Analytics and Head of Conversational Research, her work for customer and internal R&D projects drove multimillion dollar opportunities for Fortune 500 companies. Her work spanned data, analytics, visualizations, reporting, research, product, partnerships, and evangelism. For Women in Voice, she closed $500k+ in sponsorships with Amazon, Google, enterprise and SMBs. WiV became an official 501(c)(3) and she hired a staff. As a growth hacker, she scaled the brand with 150-700% YoY growth..... Today, the international brand has a social reach of 56k+. All that growth, community, and connection got her famous. She became an influencer - speaking at CES, VentureBeat, GeekGirlCon and publishing in Harvard Business Review, Adobe XD, and Cambridge University Press Today, she is the #4 Voice AI Influencer Globally and an AI Leader What's she up to now? + Builds Custom AI and Data products (platforms, automations) + Active in Investor & Founder Community + Runs with her dog -- Leadership, Business Development, Entrepreneurship, Growth Hacking, Community Building, Scholarship, Research, Linguistics, Sales, Partnerships, AI, Product Roadmapping, Development, and Marketing