Be the change you want to achieve!

Our CEO Jan­i­na Luo­to was inter­viewed for #mim­mitkoodaa-blog series, which sheds light on to the sto­ries of women in the soft­ware and tech­nol­o­gy indus­try. #mim­mitkoodaa (#wom­en­code) is a Finnish move­ment that aims to inspire women who are inter­est­ed in soft­ware devel­op­ment to start learn­ing to code and to change their career paths towards the indus­try. Jan­i­na wants to encour­age oth­er women to do the change with her own exam­ple and by shar­ing her career path.

“The val­ues are every­thing and sus­tain­abil­i­ty is close to my heart. Tech­nol­o­gy togeth­er with respon­si­ble deci­sion mak­ing and active actions dri­ve us towards sus­tain­able devel­op­ment. - — What would be more pur­pose­ful than solv­ing the world’s biggest prob­lems and help­ing oth­er indus­tries to auto­mate, devel­op and dri­ve their busi­ness more respon­si­bly and sus­tain­ably? Tech­nol­o­gy indus­try has all it takes and that’s extreme­ly rewarding.

In Fin­land, we often stare too close­ly at for­mal school degrees and work expe­ri­ence, even if ver­sa­tile know-how and com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills would be more cru­cial. - — Male-dom­i­nat­ed tech­nol­o­gy indus­try makes it pos­si­ble for women to stand out in pos­i­tive way. Encour­ag­ing fam­i­ly, close friends and trust­ed men­tors have giv­en Jan­i­na an extreme­ly impor­tant sup­port along the way. She rec­om­mends every­one to sur­round them­selves with peo­ple who help them to suc­ceed both by sup­port­ing and by chal­leng­ing along the way.

- — If there’s a will, there’s a way!”

Janina’s inter­view can be read in full (only in Finnish) from #mim­mitkoodaa-blog page. There are also oth­er inter­est­ing career sto­ries of women work­ing in tech field. Read more about #mim­mitkoodaa-move­ment (only in Finnish) here.

Jan­i­na Luo­to, ISLET’s respect­ed leader is made of reli­a­bil­i­ty, vision, inter­ac­tion skills, pro­fes­sion­al­i­ty and great heart. Get to know her: Islet­ter | LinkedIn | Twit­ter

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