Event Recap: WLiT Q1 Find Your Fierce & AIM for Success » MnTech

Our 2021 WLiT kickoff event was a great success! Women Leading in Technology events are open to both women and men who are interested in promoting, educating, empowering, and advancing women in technology throughout Minnesota.

MnTech & WLiT extend a special thank you to Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer at Facebook & Founder of LeanIn.Org, for delivering a warm welcome message to begin this exciting event. In this hour long presentation, you’ll gain brilliant insight from Teresa Sande, Founder/CEO of Mirror Mirror Strategies and author of “Find Your Fierce,” about imposter syndrome, its impact on women & people of color in their careers, and how to equip yourself with the tools and techniques necessary to combat imposter syndrome!

The event video replay includes crowd-sourced questions to Teresa Sande from the audience using Pigeonhole Live. Since there were many more crowd-sourced questions for Teresa than the event duration allowed, she graciously took the time to answer a number of those questions in this post-event supplement.

VIEW OR DOWNLOAD TERESA’S Q&A HERE.

Thank you to our valued event sponsors: Digineer, Horizontal Talent, Nutanix, SPS Commerce, and Thomson Reuters.

This conversation was facilitated by Denise Morelock, WLiT Board Member & Client Engagement Director at ThreeBridge | Boom Lab.

This event was recorded live on Tuesday, February 16, 2021.

Jayshree Seth
Corporate Scientist, 3M

Jayshree Seth is a Corporate Scientist at 3M and currently holds 77 patents for a variety of innovations, with several additional pending. She joined 3M in 1993 after an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, New York. She is a Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from her alma mater REC Trichy India, now NIIT Trichy, where she earned a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering.

Jayshree was appointed 3M’s first ever Chief Science Advocate in 2018 and is using her scientific knowledge, technical expertise and professional experience to advance science and communicate the benefits of science and the importance of diversity in STEM fields. She is also a member of Carlton Society which is the 3M Science and Engineering “Hall of Fame.” Jayshree is the fourth woman and first female engineer to be inducted. In 2020, she was awarded Society of Women Engineers (SWE) highest Achievement Award. She is also the first-ever winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the new Female Thought Leaders of the Year – category in the 18th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business in 2021. Jayshree was featured in a docuseries titled Not the Science Type that premiered during the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and accepted for Brand Storytelling Showcase, a sanctioned event at Sundance Film Festival. She is the author of the books, The Heart of Science – Engineering Footprints, Fingerprints, & Imprints, and The Heart of Science – Engineering Fine Print published by the Society of Women Engineers, and all sales proceeds go to a scholarship for underrepresented minority women in STEM. She is a sought-after speaker, globally, on a multitude of topics such as innovation, leadership and STEM advocacy and has featured in local, national and international media.

Jayshree has served on the CEOs Inclusion Council, chaired the 3M Asian Employee Resource Group A3CTION and serves on the Steering Committee for 3M Technical Women’s Leadership Forum (WLF). She also serves on the Board of the Science Museum of Minnesota, Engineering Advisory Council for Clarkson University, AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy (COSEPP), Advisory Board for Innovation – The Conference Board, and Advisory Group of Aspen Institute Our Future is Science program.

Jayshree has two adult kids, and her husband also works at 3M.