Meet Geno Sher

Geno Sher is pursing her Executive MBA in Digital Transformation at the Degroote School of Business. When not working as a Area Sales and Adoption Leader, she can be found reading, travelling and learning about different cultures.

When did your love of STEM begin?

My love for STEM begun 10 years ago when I started working for Oracle. Sitting through one of the customer project steering committee meetings where someone explained how closing the books efficiently and on time helped reduce her stress levels at the end of the month and her teenage daughters asked her why she doesn’t raise her voice anymore. This made me realize that the changes technology makes organizationally have personal benefits and help towards the elusive work life balance.

What is the best part about working in the field of STEM?

The best part about working in STEM is the ability to interpret and translate technology into business benefits, as well as objectively look at the potential moral and ethical sensitivities that automation may introduce in order to proactively address them.

What advice would you give young women interested in a career in STEM?

We are needed in STEM. There are some attributes that we naturally possess that can make a difference on the relatability, safety and foresight in technology.

Allowing vulnerability in developing, implementing and adoption of technology can help in enabling not only efficiencies in the workplace, but the softer areas of work that make a difference in our humanistic experiences such as psychological safety.

I am from Kenya / Africa and blessed enough to have this opportunity to study with global professionals in STEM. There are brilliant women back home who need an opportunity to shine their light to the rest of the world and technology removes the physical barrier to allow the same kind of learning, and they should explore this benefit of technology.