Guest Title - Andrea Mohamed, CoFounder, QuantumBloom

Women are clearly limitless, so how do we nurture their confidence, intellect, and self-assurance to prepare them for a career in STEM so the industry itself doesn’t spit them out?

That’s the premise behind QuantumBloom, the company our guest today co-founded to create environments where women early in their STEM-careers can authentically thrive. Andrea Mohamed is a transformative leader and courageous disruptor with over two decades of experience driving organizational growth and systemic change. Drawing from her own journey as a first-generation college graduate who rose through corporate America, Andrea brings a unique perspective on breaking barriers and building belonging. She knows that as women, we have to stop waiting to be chosen and instead go out in the world and just take it.

In this episode, Andrea shares her own experience of floundering early including quitting her PhD program and then stumbling her way into the corporate world. Her success there is evident, but it wasn’t an easy path, and as she and her Co-Founder began to understand the reasons why women are leaving STEM careers in droves, she knew she was capable of building something better to address that. Andrea talks openly about the good, the bad, and the ugly both in her corporate career and in the start-up world and why she thinks modeling courage is so important.

SPECIAL ADDITION - Stay tuned for the outtakes at the end. The conversation after the official recording ended was so good, our Producer just had to share some of it with you. Be warned, though, there is some explicit language so cover any ears that need covering.