The Power of Bringing People Together...Lisa Su

“What you can do as a single person is great. But what you can do when you can bring ten smart people together or 100 smart people together, or 10,000 smart people together aligned on a vision, it’s just incredible.”

—Lisa Su, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, AMD

Every other Tuesday, womenatliberty.com provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Today as a part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we are highlighting Lisa Su, President and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) in Silicon Valley.

Su became CEO in October 2014 and turned around a failing company. This MIT PhD who was born in Taiwan and raised in the Bronx, New York is an electrical engineer who became fascinated with making products. Her leadership has brought back AMD from the “brink of bankruptcy”.

Last year she spoke extensively with Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and board member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), in a ‘Masters of Leadership’ discussion. They discussed the future of AMD’s business, recent U.S. government sanctions against China which affect AMD’s business operations, and the issues of race and inequality in America that the death of George Floyd (caught on video), while being arrested by police, made apparent for all Americans. Public backlash resulted in mass protests in American cities. To hear the discussion, click here. For more information on #LeadershipTuesdays, check us out and follow us on Twitter: @LeadershipTues. 

#LeadershipTuesdays--Leshell Hatley: Hello World. Hello Robot. Hello Me.

"The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to."

--Marian Wright Edelman

http://www.upliftdc.org

Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY  provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage and strengthen women leaders. The technology industry has been in the press a lot lately for its lack of diversity and its steps (or lack thereof) to increase the representation of women and minorities. I recently heard a statistics from Vann Jones that the industry will have 1.4 million new tech jobs in the next 10 years. He's one of the advocates bringing attention to the need for more diversity in the tech industry. Current forecasts suggest that the U.S. will only be able to supply 400K of these jobs.

Leshell Hatley, an engineer, educator, researcher, and entrepreneur based in the Washington, D.C. area, is preparing a diverse population of youth to be ready for the future jobs in technology. For more than ten years, she has been teaching children the "how to's" of technology. Leshell has developed unique programs that expose youth to Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics, and Computer Science and she has documented best practices for how to teach technology to African American youth.

Through her non-profit foundation, Uplift, Inc. and as a teacher in public and private schools, Leshell teaches K-12 students how to create mobile apps, build robots, and design gaming systems. Earlier this year she spoke to an audience in the Nation's Capital on the power of creativity in using programming and robots in education. Her work has been recognized by companies like Microsoft, the MacArthur Foundation, and Google.

Leshell is currently finishing up her PhD (2016) in Learning Technologies Design Research at George Mason University (Virginia). She is also on the staff of Howard University (Washington, D.C.) managing a National Science Foundation grant that supports women STEM faculty members.

To find out more about how Leshell is preparing today's youth for tomorrow's opportunities in technology and science, see below. For more information on Leadership Tuesdays or WOMEN AT LIBERTY, click here.

--Nona O., Founder, womenatliberty.com

Leadership Tuesdays--It's The Right Thing To Do...Stephanie C. Hill

"As a nation, we must increase the number of scientists and engineers that we are producing. Since the minority population will be a huge part of the workforce, we must commit to sparking interest in those communities for science, technology, engineering and math fields. This is imperative -- not just because it's what is needed for my company's future success and for our nation's competitive edge, but also because it's the right thing to do."

--Stephanie Cole Hill, President, Information Systems and Global Solutions-Civil, Lockheed Martin

Twice a month on Tuesdays, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Our last Leadership Tuesdays for this Women's History Month of 2012 features Stephanie Cole Hill of leading defense industry contractor, Lockheed Martin.  An engineer by training, Ms. Hill was recently promoted to President of Information Systems and Global Solutions-Civil where she leads the 10,000 employees of this multi-billion dollar business unit. Presently, Ms. Hill is the only African American President at Lockheed Martin and she reports to Ms. Linda R. Gooden, Executive Vice President of Information Systems and Global Solutions and the other African American woman in executive leadership at Lockheed Martin. (Ms. Gooden was profiled and featured in Leadership Tuesdays in September 2011.) 

In March 2012, Ms. Hill has the distinct honor of being profiled for Women's History Month in The Root by her prominent older sister, Harriette Cole, a best-selling author, Today Show/MSNBC contributor, president of her own media company and former editor at Essence Magazine. To view this Leadership Tuesdays' feature on Ms. Hill, click here. For more information on LeadershipTuesdays, see here.