SOUTHFIELD – Diva Tech Talk was thrilled to interview technology industry leader and visionary, Joanne Moretti, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Sales Enablement at Jabil Inc., and General Manager of Jabil’s Blue Sky Center. With a 30-plus year career at tech industry giants like CA Technologies, Hewlett Packard and Dell, Joanne had many personal insights and leadership tips to share.
Joanne has an aspirational goal to inspire 1 million women to become STEM leaders by the year 2020. “And I put presentations together, blogs together, speak publicly whenever I am given the opportunity. I give away my top 10 leadership tips away all the time.” In pursuit of her passion to strengthen women’s leadership, Joanne is also the editor of an online newsletter “The Butterfly Effect,” which can be found here at:http://paper.li/JoannMoretti/1398403437
Joanne’s top 3 leadership lessons for aspiring women tech leaders include:
- Speak in the language of business. “We must step away from our qualitative, fuzzy, touchy-feely speech. You need to speak, for instance, in terms of return on investment from capital, earnings per share, shareholder expectations.”
- Connect the dots/plug into your company’s strategy. “How does what you do connect back to the broader vision, broader KPI’s, and broader initiatives of the business?” For Joanne, this is key to “shattering the glass ceiling.”
- Get along with other women.
And her remaining 7 include:
- Build a personal Board of Directors
- Build your network, and your brand inside it
- Self-reflect, and think about the other person, always
- Create mutual purpose
- Lead (don’t “manage”) – empower, encourage, generate enthusiasm, coach
- Get out of your comfort zone; embrace a new challenge/learning every day
- Strategically accelerate your organization and, by extension, yourself
- To listen, click on http://www.divatechtalk.com/blog/ep32
