Leadership Variations: Unfiltered
Season 1: Cracking the Code – From Underestimated to Undeniable spotlights senior women in STEM who’ve broken barriers and redefined success. If you’re a woman in science, tech, engineering, or math—or you lead teams in these fields—this series offers real stories, bold leadership, and hard-won insight you won’t hear anywhere else. These candid conversations go beyond inspiration—they offer career insight, leadership lessons, and visibility strategies for STEM women leaders navigating executive paths.
Each episode features unfiltered stories from women who’ve risen to executive roles in industries that weren’t built for them. We unpack how they navigated bias, burnout, reinvention, and visibility—without apology and without a playbook.
Leadership Variations: Unfiltered is a limited-series podcast exposing the messier side of leadership—the parts no one talks about, but every leader lives. Each series explores a different high-stakes topic: rising without apology as a woman in STEM, redefining success after burnout or reinvention, busting leadership myths that don’t hold up in the real world, making bold talent decisions without a clear playbook, and leading when the politics are real—but the guidance is vague.
If you’re leading through complexity, developing leaders others overlook, or navigating visibility at the top—this podcast is for you.
Hosted by Dr. Amy Bladen Shatto—a leadership strategist and executive coach with 25+ years of experience advising senior leaders and developing talent in high-growth and Fortune 100 companies
Learn more at www.leadershipvariations.com
Episodes
8 episodes
Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Dr. Rosemary Bernal-Gomez, First Analytics
In this episode of Leadership Variations: Unfiltered, Amy Bladen Shatto speaks with Dr. Rosemary Bernal-Gomez, a seasoned analytics leader and STEM advocate whose career spans over three decades in high-stakes environm...
Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Pilar Baltar, Perplexity AI & Various Top Tech Firms
In this episode of Leadership Variations: Unfiltered, Amy Bladen Shatto sits down with Pilar Baltar, Business Fellow at Perplexity AI and former senior executive across global Microsoft partner organizations, to explor...
Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Biliana Veleva-Rotse, Amicus Therapeutics
In this episode of Leadership Variations: Unfiltered, host Amy Bladen Shatto, PhD, PCC, BCC sits down with Dr. Biliana Veleva-Rotse, Global Medical Director for Fabry Disease at Amicus Therapeutics, to unpack what leadership really looks like f...
Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Tara Hernandez, MONGODB
What if the most important parts of leadership never show up on a résumé?In this episode of Leadership Variations: Unfiltered, Amy Blaydon sits down with Tara Hernandez, Vice President of Developer Productivity at MongoDB, f...
Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Dr. Natalie Crawford, DVM, Veterinary Pathologist, Operations EXEC, & Coach
Leadership Variations: Unfiltered | Series 1, Episode 4 Leadership Challenges & Growth with Dr. Natalie Crawford, DVM, Veterinary Pathologist, Operations EXEC, & CoachIn this powe...
Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Jennifer Wipf, Ginko Bioworks
Leadership Variations: Unfiltered | Series 1, Episode 3Leading Through Change & Authentic Leadership in STEMJoin us for an inspiring conversation with Jennifer Webb, General Manager of the Biosolutes Bus...
Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Ana Hooker, Exact Sciences
Leadership is more than charisma — it’s about clarity, resilience, and authenticity.In this episode of Leadership Variations Unfiltered, host Amy Bladen Shatto — leadership development consultant and exec...
Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Laura MacDonald
Leadership Variations: Unfiltered — Limited Series 1, Episode 1Cracking the Code: From Underestimated to Undeniable with Laura MacDonaldWhat does it take to go from underestimated to leading global teams in STEM? In this de...