“Take first step – pick a direction, try something out. Let your career build as it happens.”
This episode is an audio version of a virtual panel held at the Linguistics Career Launch in the summer of 2021. The title of the panel is Linguist in the C-Suite, and the moderator is Nancy Frishberg. The panelist is Andrea Leszek, who is a technology leader with broad experience building products that customers love. She is currently the Chief Operating Officer for Technology at Salesforce, responsible for engineering and business operations, agile, and employee enablement. Andrea is also responsible for customer enablement via technology communications, documentation, and in-app user assistance. She is a founding member of the Salesforce Women’s Network, and is passionate about diversity in tech. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Topics include:
– technical writing
– transitions
– MIT
– C-Suite
– management training
– speech recognition
– internships
