S5E5: Career Growth Is All About Learning Where You Can Have An Impact feat. Amy Frampton

This season, we are focusing on the experience of women in the
workplace – especially here in Utah. And today, we are exploring
the experience of women in leadership positions in particular.
Why is this so important? According to a recent study published
by Wallet Hub, Utah ranks 48th in the nation when it comes to
women’s representation in executive leadership positions. 





Here to talk about her experience as a woman in the C-suite is
Amy Frampton. Amy is the Chief Marketing Officer at NoFraud, the
leader in eCommerce Fraud Prevention and Revenue Protection. She
also served as Head of Marketing at BambooHR and Vice President
of Product Marketing at SmartSheet.  Amy is a proud graduate
of the U and is passionate about mentoring young women on their
own college and career journeys. 





Amy and host Frances Johnson discuss speaking up to make an
impact for yourself and the women who come after you, remembering
women are not a homogenous group, pressure testing our thinking,
and how a good mentor can change your career journey.





Eccles Business Buzz is a production of the David Eccles School
of Business and is produced by University FM.



Episode Quotes:




The role of mentors in academic and career
success





10:35: People that are willing to give you their time are our
mentors. Sometimes, it's an explicit corporate program where
every executive is supposed to mentor X number of people, and
every person that's identified as high potential is supposed to
have many mentors, and those can work great because they
facilitate introductions. They kind of help all of us understand
the importance of mentorship, but a lot of it has just been, for
me, really organic for people, men and women, that I've worked
with that have been willing to take the time. To say, "Hey,
here's something to think about," or why don't you run that by me
before you go through it with everybody else?





How empathy empowers women to shape inclusive
culture





19:04: All of us need empathy. And I think as women, we can model
that and hopefully help change the culture that allows everyone,
no matter the space they come from, to be their whole selves and
have an impact on the business. I just think there's a real
opportunity for all of us to grow in that way, and that women can
leave that in a lot of ways and help change the culture.





How do you distinguish a great mentor?





11:55: Great mentors give you time and understand the value of
bringing new people into conversations and helping them find
their place and their voice.





On pressure testing your thinking 





19:17: The more diversity you can get in a room to test ideas
from different perspectives, whether that is finance testing this
from their perspective, a person of color testing this from
theirs, or a different gender testing this from theirs, whatever
it is, the more testing we can do before we go to market. This is
so important to the great running of a business, from my
perspective, to great marketing and to helping your salespeople
know how to go out and talk to folks. All of that is lifted by
diversity of questioning and thought.





Why are women's unique perspectives important in
executive leadership?





05:43: Women aren't all the same. Men aren't all the same. Humans
aren't all the same. It's always hard when someone says, Well,
women bring this, right? Because we all bring different things,
but I do think that what we know from brain chemistry is that
women do have the ability to look across kind of situation and
see all of the dots and connect them in a really unique way, and
to have empathy and understanding of where people are coming
from, that is often something that women are good at. And then we
just bring our own perspectives from where we are, whether we're
moms or grandmothers or in marketing.



Show Links:

Amy Frampton | LinkedIn

NoFraud

Ted Wilson

Chief

Women Tech Council

Women in Business - Campus Connect