💃 CEO but also a dancer, poet, book publisher, and founder of two nonprofit organizations. 01:12🤯 Padma’s journey from rural India to the urban USA due to arranged marriage: losing confidence, being a mother, risk taking artist, and serial entrepreneur. 02:38👩🏽‍💻 Upgrading her skills to a software engineer and working in big companies: her service mind and care couldn’t flourish in corporate. 06:56👩🏽‍💼 The customer-focused consulting company become an AWS partner in data engineering, AI, and ML projects: good data is essential for making the right decisions. 08:24📈 Being a female entrepreneur without mentors was hard: growing slowly, learning, and embracing remote working. 09:50🖥️ Challenges with recruitment and inflation: core values for success of women in IT. 13:31✨ Diversity is very important because of different perspectives on problem-solving: biased data is not good. 15:53🛕 Passing ancient Indian knowledge to the next generations through non-profit: teaching kids art, old languages, traditions, and dance. 18:18😍 Empowering women and children in Indian villages in an organic way: When women are strong, families are strong. 22:33🙏🏽 The human race was not born yesterday—learn by looking into nature and at human experience: we learn to listen, think, and imagine using art and help from our ancestors. 26:06🤩 Padma respects all the help she got from gurus, teachers, and an amazing team of women surrounding her: “When you want to do good, good will come back in many forms.” 29:41💎 Padma recites one of her poems in the Telugu language: the irrelevance of the material world and the richness of nature and art. 31:34🌸 Connect with Padma: https://www.virtuetechinc.com/😇 Chanakyaleaders https://chanakyaleaders.org/index.php 🤩 Lakshmi Grama https://www.linkedin.com/in/lgrama🌟 Connect with Adrienne: www.sheleadsmedia.com🎙️ Listen to She Leads Media podcasts: www.sheleadspodcasts.com

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