10. Maria Wiss: Disruption, Data & Leading from the Eye of the Storm

Maria Wiss left Google. On purpose. Not because things went wrong, but because she saw an opportunity to once again be working "in the eye of the storm", where enterprise AI is being built right now. Maria Wiss, Regional Vice President EMEA North at Snowflake, has built a career by running toward disruption while everyone else is still reading the memo. In this episode, she gets honest about imposter syndrome, the art of being your own coach, and why diversity in recruitment isn't a nice-to-have: it's the whole game. She also breaks down what agentic AI actually means for your business, and why the companies moving fastest right now all have one thing in common: a data strategy.

This is a conversation about ambition, leadership, and what it looks like to genuinely thrive, not just survive, in the age of AI.