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According to its website, Diva Tech Talk “is a specialized communication channel highlighting women doing wonderful things in the technology arena by creating podcasts from interviews with successful female individuals in the field and covering various technology events.  It was created to inform and inspire women of all ages to succeed in professional and life missions that are technology-driven.”

The podcast has also won Clarion Awards from the Association for Women in Communications in 2017 and 2016.

In this FIR Interview, Shel Holtz spoke with Diva Tech Talk co-founder and host Nicole Scheffler about the show’s origins, its goals, and life as a female engineer in a male-dominated industry (and what communicators can do to help change that).

Connect with Nicole at @Tech_Nicole. Follow the podcast at @DivaTechTalks.

About our conversation partner

Nicole Scheffler has been a Systems Engineer and has worked across business units within Cisco for over 12 years.  She has created her own job rotation program serving across vertical as a sales engineer, in Technical Marketing, and as a Security focused Consultant.  Currently, she proudly serves the Cisco partner community as a consulting engineer.  She holds a Masters degree in Information Technology and several Cisco certifications.  She has also been an Adjunct Professor at Davenport University and Lansing Community College in various networking and security courses.  Nicole also highlights other women in tech with her Diva Tech Talk podcast and has started two community organizations for technology locally.  She loves live music and spending time with her family outdoors.

About our sponsor

Thanks to Ragan Awards for sponsoring this episode. Use the code INTERVIEWS to save 25% on the following:

• The 2017 Video & Visual Awards which will celebrate the best corporate videos and visual designs from the past year. The final deadline is Oct. 25.
• The 2017 PR Daily Awards which will focus on the industry’s most successful PR campaigns, publications, and events. The early bird deadline is Oct. 13 and the final deadline is Nov. 8.
• The 2017 Ace Awards which honors individual PR practitioners, in-house teams, and agencies. The early bird deadline is Oct. 27.

Visit Ragan.com/Awards to enter.

About Shel Holtz

Shel Holtz, ABC (Accredited Business Communicator), is director of Internal Communications at Webcor, a commercial general contractor headquartered in San Francisco. Before joining Webcor, Shel spent 21 years as principal of Holtz Communication + Technology. In addition to integrating technology into communications strategies, his expertise includes strategic communications planning, change management, organizational culture, business initiatives and communications research. Full bio