Her Story
About Shobana
Shobana Sampath is Director of Engineering at a healthcare software company, a role she began about two years ago. She leads ten teams and manages the Human Capital Management portfolio focused on learning and performance products for healthcare workers, reporting directly to the CTO and overseeing both engineering and program management. Her career spans engineering roles at Lehman Brothers in investment banking, ADTRAN in networking, Windstream in data centers, Teradata where she advanced from staff software engineer to team lead to manager and discovered her management talent, and LexisNexis in life sciences where she managed three teams including building one from scratch in South Africa. She has grown her current organization from one team to ten, emphasizing people foundations, accountability, and trust to build a resilient team.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Shobana
01What do you attribute your success to?
I think meditation sets you apart and keeps you calm through tough challenges. I learned how to scale impact to people by providing the right tools and increasing high morale which automatically delivers results. I have a high EQ which helps me sense the room and I'm very hardworking and just get stuff done so people know if something is handed off to me it will get done.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
We women have come a long way and it's no longer where we have to fight so much for opportunities. Acknowledge our strengths like the emotional element, multitasking, keeping track of things, staying organized. Our weaknesses are we overthink and find it difficult to disconnect from work. Learn from men to be very direct and not take things to heart and purely look at business. Do not ever let anyone tell you because you're a woman you can't do it. You could be the only woman in the room so make sure you have a loud voice.
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