{"podcast":{"title":"Leading Women in Tech Podcast","slug":"leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160","podcast_index_feed_id":381160,"rss_url":"https://leadingwomenintech.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://tonicollis.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/8/5/1/f/851f9a04c34cf0d688c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Podcast_Cover_2023.jpg","author":"Toni Collis","episode_count":100,"summary":"For ambitious women ready to rise, lead, and thrive — without burning out. Are you delivering results… but still waiting to be seen as a true leader? Tired of performance reviews with praise — but no promotion? Hosted by Dr. Toni Collis, executive coach for women in tech, this podcast is your go-to leadership toolkit. Whether you're a rising Director, lone female VP, or overextended operator tired of being overlooked — you're in the right place. Each week, Toni shares real-world leadership strategies, career advancement frameworks, and executive presence tools to help you: ✅ Build strategic visibility ✅ Communicate like a trusted exec ✅ Navigate politics with integrity ✅ Advocate for yourself (without overworking) ✅ Lead with confidence, clarity, and influence You'll also hear powerful interviews with women who've paved the way — and candid conversations on the unspoken challenges women face in male-dominated industries. ✨ If you're ready to go from \"she's great\" to \"she's the obvious next Exec\" — hit follow.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T02:17:03.487813+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160"},"episode":{"title":"299: Building a Positive Workplace Culture as a Woman CEO: Ownership, AI and Leading with Joy — with Anusha Iyer","slug":"299-building-a-positive-workplace-culture-as-a-woman-ceo-ownership-ai-and-leading-with-joy-with-anusha-iyer","published_at":"2026-05-05T12:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160/299-building-a-positive-workplace-culture-as-a-woman-ceo-ownership-ai-and-leading-with-joy-with-anusha-iyer","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/leading-women-in-tech-podcast-381160","url":"https://tonicollis.com/leading-women-tech/299-building-positive-workplace-culture-woman-ceo-anusha-iyer","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/leadingwomenintech/LWIT_299_FInal.mp3?dest-id=2183168","summary":"Let's talk about building a positive workplace culture. What does it take to build a workplace where people truly own their work — not just show up for it? Anusha Iyer, Founder and CEO of Corsha, joins Toni to share the unfiltered journey from software engineer to CTO to CEO — and the leadership philosophy that underpins everything she's built along the way. Corsha secures machine-to-machine communications for the operational systems that run our world, from AI agents to robotic controllers in critical infrastructure. It's deep tech solving some of the most important and underprotected problems in cybersecurity today. But this conversation isn't just about technology. It's about ownership culture, the realities of founding a company as a woman, how to pivot without destroying your team, and why joy at work isn't a soft concept — it's a strategic one. Anusha also gets into the AI thread that's running through every organisation right now: why diverse voices need to be shaping these tools while the models are still being trained, and why using AI as an assistant rather than a replacement is a leadership decision, not just a preference. 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