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What would your career look like if you knew you couldn’t fail? 20 Great Answers with Dorota Martinez, Head of Marketing for ANZ for Tech Data
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Join your host and Executive Creative Director Barrie Seppings as he asks Dorota our patented ‘20 Questions’, uncovering how working for a toxic boss made her a better leader today, why a walk in nature is part of her daily ritual and what you do when you arrive in a new country with only 500 pounds and you don’t even speak the language.
Welcome back to this month’s “Plugged In, Switched On” podcast from Splendid Group.
The interview format at Plugged In Switched On is very simple: we ask every guest the same 20 Questions and invariably we get 20 different (but always great) answers.
Dorota Martinez is the Head of Marketing for Tech Data ANZ. Connect with Dorota on LinkedIn.
Barrie Seppings is the Executive Creative Director of The Splendid Group and the host of Plugged In, Switched On. Connect with Barrie on LinkedIn.
Thanks for listening!
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Chapters
1. What would your career look like if you knew you couldn’t fail? 20 Great Answers with Dorota Martinez, Head of Marketing for ANZ for Tech Data (00:00:00)
2. Question 1: What is Tech Data selling and why do your clients pay good money for it? (00:02:29)
3. Question 2: Did you think you were going to be in marketing and/or technology? What did Dorota in high school think she was going to do? (00:03:28)
4. Question 3: Which part of the job that you have now that you just naturally enjoy that you find yourself spending more time on? (00:07:59)
5. Question 4: What is the one career move or that moment that you wish you could go back and undo? (00:09:41)
6. Question 5: Who have you learned the most from in your career, even if it was what you shouldn't do or perhaps you've had a great mentor. Do you want to talk about who's been a great leader for you? (00:11:49)
7. Question 6: How do you keep yourself leaning into change? How do you cope with the rate of change or are you excited by the constant change? (00:13:06)
8. Question 7: How do you keep yourself healthy and balanced between life and work? Do you have routines? Do you have hobbies and sports? What's your secret? (00:14:30)
9. Question 8: Do you think there is a territory or a sector or a part of your audience that you really do have to treat a little bit special or are they kind of all the same? (00:16:34)
10. Question 9: Do you have a favorite campaign? Is there something out there that you go, "Wow, that's good, I wish I'd done that?" (00:18:30)
11. Question 10: Dorota, what's the one thing in this industry that's gone on for too long and when you're in charge, you're going to fix it? (00:20:28)
12. Question 11: What's the one question you'd ask your agency if you knew that they had to tell you the truth? (00:22:20)
13. Question 12: How do you make decisions about when you need to collaborate with people, particularly people that you're leading, is that something that you have a system for or it's a case-by-case basis for working that out? (00:24:15)
14. Question 13: What's a long-held belief about marketing, perhaps from your university days, things that you were taught as theory and now that you've been out there, you've been in so many markets what have you had to change your mind about? (00:26:46)
15. Question 14: In terms of that effectiveness and that ROI, thinking about the last six or 12 months, which tactics or approaches are you pulling back from, you're doing less of because they're not working as much? (00:28:50)
16. Question 15: What's under the radar or even maybe an old-fashioned idea, something that's underrated that doesn't really get the love that it deserves? (00:30:03)
17. Question 16: How much does it cost to get you out of bed and why do you get up every morning and keep doing what you're doing? (00:31:08)
18. Question 18: What was that experience like for you and how has it changed the way you work now? Have you just gone back to completely reset or have things changed for you? (00:32:13)
19. Question 19: What's the culture like there, because you mentioned before culture is really important? Has the promise lived up to the reality for you? (00:33:30)
20. Question 20: Do you have a secret weapon for your life and your career? And if you do, will you tell me what it is? (00:35:45)
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