TARATALKS are STEM-Winding Webinars with Women who Matter
Conversations That Change Lives
We launched our TARATALKS webinars so members (and non-members, for now!) can connect with inspiring women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Plus, women who excel in economics, social sciences and finances. (Now you know what STEM + means!) Register below for one of our FREE upcoming webinars. At Gotara we’re all about giving our members the best career advice they need to supercharge their STEM+ careers.
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September 2021
STEM-career-plan-strategies that empower you to find your dream job
In our TARATALK with Kim Anstett on STEM career plan strategies, the Iron Mountain CTO shares tips to empower you to find your dream job. ...
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September 2021
Women Leadership in STEM | How can you discover your superpower?
In our TARATALK with Annalisa Gigante, this award-winning innovator shares why STEM women are natural leaders and how you can become one. She'll also reveal how being able to spot four-leaf clovers is her lucky superpower career skill. ...
August 2021
Transition engineering | In addition to addressing climate change, can this methodology help you build a sustainable STEM career?
Susan Krumdieck invented transition engineering to encourage engineers to re-think how to approach the issue of sustainability. She is a mechanical engineering professor from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. In addition to addressing climate change, can this methodology help you plan and build a sustainable STEM career? ...
4 Core Skills for Success in Career and Life
There are many capabilities that we attribute to success, but in our August 5 TARATALK conversation with Vijaya Kaza, you'll discover the 4 core skills/capabilities that will help you achieve success in your career and life. In her conversation with Gotara founder and CEO D. Sangeeta, Vijaya will share how you can practice these four core skills. ...
July 2021
Perseverance & Career Success | Discover how Tanya Harrison reached for the stars & Mars.
Perseverance: The Key to Career Success | Join us on July 22 at 1:00 pm (PST) for our TARATALK with “Professional Martian,” geologist & Twitter habitué, Tanya Harrison. She’ll share how she made her childhood dreams come true; in spite of some hurdles and humans, she encountered along the way. ...
Information is Power | Make Smart Career Moves Based on Data
Information is Power: Make Smart Career Moves Based on Data | Join us on July 8 at 8 am (PST) for our TARATALK with Alutha Moshani, an IT executive at Sanlam, one of South Africa's leading insurance firms. Alutha will share her story of how she became one of the senior Black women in IT at the Cape Town office. Hint: It's a story of perseverance, passion—and purpose. ...
June 2021
Women in Science & Leadership | Why did Kathleen Goss leave the lab to become a leader?
Kathleen Goss’s plan was to be a cancer biologist for her entire career. Then life happened. In our June 17 (1:00 pm PST) TARATALK, discover how she learned mid-career how to play to her strengths and make a bigger impact as a women leader in the cancer world. ...
Discover how to become an innovative thinker.
In our June 3 TARATALK mechanical engineering professor Cynthia Hipwell will share more about the innovation business processes that she successfully developed at the companies she worked for and now shares with her students at Texas A&M. It’s also an innovative mindset that she applied to her career path—from industry to academia. ...
May 2021
Women in STEM and Motherhood: Are you at risk of hitting the maternal wall?
Join us on May 20 for a candid conversation with Dr. Isabel Torres on women in STEM and motherhood. Gotara Founder and CEO D Sangeeta and Torres will discuss the challenges STEM moms face and what can be done to address the systemic barriers that prevent them from achieving their career goals. ...
3M: Math, music, and motherhood in the STEM + world.
Mathematics, as Einstein once said, is the poetry of ideas. He also said he often "thought" in music. He was not, however, a mother. And he definitely wasn’t a mother in STEM. To distill all three of these aspects of life—math, music and motherhood—join us on May 6 when we get together with Ami Radunskaya. ...
April 2021
Cyber Careers for Women in STEM +
As a senior leader in a cybersecurity organization, there is a LOT that Ginger Wierzbanowski can't talk about publicly. But don't worry... there's still much for us to discuss in our April 22 TARATALK on cybersecurity careers for women in STEM+. ...
Career path strategies: Seven ways to land your dream job.
Jessica Vandenberghe grew up on an Alberta farm where the list of career options was relatively narrow. You farmed, you worked in a local store, or if you had "smarts," you became a lawyer, doctor or teacher. ...
March 2021
Overcome Imposter Syndrome. Is self doubt sabotaging your STEM dreams?
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day was #ChoosetoChallenge. Sometimes the challenge you take on is with yourself. ...
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