For years, Daisy Xia's performance reviews said the same things: hardworking, great team player, result-driven, quiet. Cycle after cycle, different managers, same words. Then she realized: those were her brand hashtags, and they were never going to get her to where she wanted to go. She wanted "confident," "influential," "driven," "leadership." And nobody was going to give her those labels. She had to earn them by using her voice.

Daisy is Head of Strategy and FP&A at Revolut, one of the world's fastest-growing fintechs. Originally from China, she built her career navigating the cultural expectation that hard work and results would speak for themselves. They didn't. In this episode, she breaks down exactly how she changed that, and what she now teaches every junior person who reports to her.

You'll learn:

• The performance review pattern that finally made her realize she was building the wrong brand, and the specific words she decided to own instead
• Why she stopped being the silent note-taker in every meeting, what she lost by doing it, and why AI has made that role completely obsolete
• The 4-phase framework for asking questions in town halls and large meetings, from canned questions that still get you seen, to strategic dialogue that opens collaboration doors with senior executives
• The "golden three months" strategy: how to use your newness as a security blanket to ask anything, map broken processes, and deliver visible value before anyone expects it
• Why there is no such thing as over-communication at work ,and how staying quiet to avoid being "too much" is actually the riskier move
• The one mandate she gives herself and every person she mentors: say something in every meeting, even if it's just a rephrasing

If you've ever been called "hardworking" but not "leadership material," or if you have great ideas that only come out in one-on-ones but never in the room, this episode is the blueprint.

About Daisy Xia: Head of Strategy and Financial Planning & Analytics at Revolut, Daisy leads strategic and financial operations at one of the world's largest fintech companies. Originally from China, she coaches and mentors junior professionals on speaking up, building visibility, and translating strong technical work into leadership presence.

Connect with Daisy on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daisy-xia

Stop Taking Notes, Start Getting Noticed: Revolut Head of Strategy Daisy Xia on Building Your Brand Through Your Voice

When a new business leader walked in and told Malvika Jhangiani they were going to restructure the entire segment — 60% of company revenue — in a room with just the two of them, no leaks, no one else in the room, she didn't say no. She said: "I hear you. And here's how we get to the same outcome with the right people involved." Six months after implementation, he came back and told her it was the right call.

That's the ABC method — Acknowledge, Build, Challenge — and it's the framework Malvika has built her career on. As VP HR, Learning & Development at Newell Brands, she's spent years figuring out how to challenge senior leaders without triggering defensiveness, manage rooms full of type A executives without losing the thread, and find genuine joy in the conversations most people dread.

In this episode, she gets specific about all of it.

You'll learn:

• The ABC method for challenging leaders without coming across as aggressive, and the Project Panther restructure story that proves it works
• How she handled a client in Oman at 24 who kept making inappropriate comments — alone, in a foreign country, with a relationship and additional business on the line, and still won the next assignment
• The "be brief, be bright, be gone" framework for capturing and keeping the attention of type A executives in high-stakes meetings
• How she gamified a full-day leadership talent review to keep a competitive senior team engaged, and still got all the work done
• Why leading with facts instead of emotion is the only way to challenge the status quo without losing credibility
• Her personal technique for staying calm when everything is tense: painting, choosing to laugh, and the line about "not my circus, not my monkeys, but I do know some of the clowns"

If you work with strong-willed leaders, navigate difficult conversations across cultures, or just want to bring more effectiveness, and more joy, into the hardest parts of your job, this episode delivers.

About Malvika Jhangiani: Vice President HR, Learning & Development at Newell Brands, Malvika has led organizational transformation, talent strategy, and cross-cultural teams across global markets. Originally from India, she has built her career navigating high-stakes leadership conversations across cultures, industries, and executive levels.

Connect with Malvika on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malvika-jhangiani/

She Was 24, Alone With a Difficult Client in Oman. What She Figured Out Built Her Entire Leadership Playbook.

She watched a brilliant female CEO — strategic, skilled, accomplished — get pushed out of her company. And in that moment, Alejandra Torchia had a realization that changed how she thinks about her entire career: if it can happen to her, it can happen to any of us. A job title is the most fragile kind of power there is. The only power that can't be taken away is the one you build inside yourself.

Alejandra is SVP of Technology, Global Infrastructure Solutions at Equifax, leading teams across multiple countries and continents. She also runs "I Am Remarkable" workshops — originally a Google initiative — helping professionals, especially women and underrepresented groups, learn to celebrate their own achievements out loud. She did not always find this easy. Growing up in Argentina, where the culture does not reward self-promotion the way the U.S. does, she spent years assuming her work would speak for itself. It didn't.

In this episode, she shares what she learned late, by her own admission, and what she now teaches others from the start.

You'll learn:

• Why waiting for others to recognize your achievements is a trap, and the mindset shift that breaks it
• The story of how she walked into a job interview at 22 with no experience and got hired on boldness and a single honest promise
• Why she left a well-paying job that supported her family to escape bias, and how she made that decision
• The difference between title-based power and internal power, and why only one of them survives a corporate restructure
• The single biggest leadership gap she sees across cultures, levels, and industries, and it's not what most leaders focus on
• How values contain ambition and keep influence from crossing into manipulation
• The practical system she teaches for tracking and sharing your own achievements before you forget them

If you've been doing great work and waiting for someone to notice, this episode reframes that habit entirely.

About Alejandra Torchia: SVP of Technology, Global Infrastructure Solutions at Equifax, Alejandra leads infrastructure teams across the globe. Originally from Buenos Aires, she moved to the U.S. seven years ago. She is an advisory board member of WATT (Women Advancing Technology Together) at Equifax, a board member of the Start House Foundation, an active facilitator of the I Am Remarkable initiative, and a member of Women in Technology (WIT) Atlanta.

Connect with Alejandra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-torchia-001954

Stop Waiting to Be Recognized: How Equifax SVP Alejandra Torchia Learned to Promote Herself — and Why You Need To