Becky helps make our lives safer by smashing things! Listen in for great examples and tips about standing out with confidence as an engineer in a male-dominated field.
Becky offers her real-world experience working as a leader who’s an introvert in a male-dominated world. Listen for how she wow’d a skeptical audience and had them requesting her back the following year, along with the secret about confidence.
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About Becky Mueller:
Becky is a leader and technical expert in the automotive safety industry responsible for the development of both the next-generation side-impact crash test and passenger-side small overlap crash test. She’s a Senior Research Engineer at Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Becky has experience serving in multiple Board of Director-level positions in professional and community service organizations.
"I always had an interest in cars, which is a pretty unusual thing for little girls to be interested in," Mueller told Rewire.org back in 2017. "My family I sat down one night (when she was 10 years old) — my parents always watched Dateline, on NBC — and I actually saw the very first crash test results from the Insurance Institute and it just kind of clicked for me. I was like 'This is so cool! I'd be able to work with cars every day, get paid to destroy something, and do something that is good for people. I can save people's lives and they never even have to meet me."
To get the ball rolling on her nascent career, she would build Lego cars and crash them into a Lego wall. Now, with the pandemic keeping her at home, she kept busy by going back to where it all started.
Connect with Becky:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/beckycgunn/
About me:
Karen Laos is a keynote speaker and leadership coach equipping women to stand out with unshakable confidence. She specializes in communication: executive presence and compelling messages. Karen champions female business leaders to own their value and find their voice so they can be seen and heard. She also works with teams to create cultures of trust and function at their best.
Karen has coached leaders at Facebook, Google, Netflix, Uber, Sephora, Sony, Microsoft, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, Trip Advisor, Bacardi, Levi, and more. Karen’s style is fun, encouraging and results-oriented. She immediately moves past the “fluff” and gets straight to the issue (just ask her clients).
Connect with me:
Website: https://www.karenlaos.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenlaosconsulting
Facebook: Ignite Your Confidence with Karen Laos: https://www.facebook.com/groups/karenlaosconsulting
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenlaos/
Clubhouse: @karenlaos
Episodes also available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEwQoTGdJX5eME0ccBKiKng/videos