Podcasts

Episode 1:
Starting Out in Tech

In this first episode of five, Saleha Williams, FT Top 100 Technology Leader, Tech Evangelist and Tech ESG Advocate, discusses her background and how she set out (at the age of 14) to build a technology career that would take her all over the world.

Episode 2:
Passion and Purpose in Today’s Tech World

Saleha Williams discusses finding your passion and nurturing your purpose to find a tech job and career you love for life. We also discuss how to build your tech career and balance it with the demands of everyday love life in your 20s, 30s, 40s and beyond.

Episode 3:
Precision – Using Metacognition to Focus Your Career Aspirations

In Part 3, Precision, Saleha Williams reveals her metacognitive framework and toolkit that was instrumental in launching her career in a major tech corporation in the early days of her career – something she still uses across Google and working with some of the world’s most innovative technology brands today.

Episode 4:
Productivity – Optimizing Your Energy to Achieve ‘Flow’

In Part 4, Productivity, Saleha Williams discusses how we can optimize our energy levels to activate the brain and achieve a state of ‘flow’. Blending our passion and purpose with a ‘laser-like’ career focus, we discuss how, on a day-to-day basis, we can channel our energy to advance our technology careers and achieve long-term career goals.

Episode 5:
The Truth About Relationships and Your Career

In our final podcast episode of this series, Saleha Williams discusses the truth about the immense psychological impact personal relationships can have on our career performance: from her own ‘love life’ to managing relations with ‘challenging colleagues’ we discuss how to flourish in a diverse environment, find a mentor who is right for you and hear the advice she wishes she had given to her younger self to elevate and accelerate her technology career.