You've spent your whole career making sure you're prepared. You read the book before the meeting, you learn the framework before you lead the project, and somewhere along the way, you start believing that the reason you're in the room is that you know more than the next person.
So what happens the day you walk into a meeting and you don't?
In this episode, I'm sitting down with Bindu Sharma, Senior Director of Cloud Financial Operations at Teradata, who has built a 20+ year career across Netscape, FireEye, Guidewire, and Teradata — pivoting from quality assurance, to program management, to hardware compliance, to cloud — with a three-year career break in the middle when her second child was a baby.
And the thing she credits for all of it isn't how much she knows. It's how openly she says what she doesn't.
What we talk about:
- Why Bindu walks into meetings as a Senior Director and openly says ”I don't know” — and why it builds trust instead of undermining her
- How to pivot into a completely new technical domain without starting over
- What it actually took to quit her job on January 3rd with an 8-month-old at home, and then come back three years later
- How to speak the language of finance, engineering, and operations in the same meeting
- The specific conversation to have with your manager when no one is tapping you on the shoulder for promotion
About Bindu:
Bindu Sharma is a Senior Director leading enterprise cloud infrastructure strategy, technical programs, and financial operations across AWS, Azure, and GCP at Teradata. She's led initiatives delivering ~$15M in savings through infrastructure optimization and cross-functional alignment, and she serves as an Advisor to the Board of California State University East Bay's Customer Experience program.
Connect with Bindu: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bindu-sharma-b8883)
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