Q: What is the best or most helpful benefit that LivaNova offers its employees?
A: The vacation and personal time benefits are amazing, and I use them often. I’m also lucky to benefit from my department being remote. It gives me flexibility on where I work each day and I’m grateful to have space to focus without the extraneous noises of an office building.
Q: What advice would you give to women engineers who are entering the workforce?
A: Secure a technical mentor and you will be well set. The software developers I worked with noticed I was new to the field. They included me in meetings and conversations about technical solutions, all for the sake of expanding my learning. Their efforts transformed me from a new person in the field to someone who provided almost immediate value to the company's goals.
Q: Why would you encourage other women in medtech to come work at LivaNova?
A: There are many reasons to work at LivaNova. I think it’s a perfect fit for both women and men. LivaNova is inclusive and everyone works well together. I’ve never felt singled out or treated any differently here, and I think that having that at the beginning of my career was invaluable to my growth as a leader.
Q: Please share with us a little-known fact about you.
A: In college, I took up a 1930s partner dance called Lindy Hop. I danced two to three times a week in the evenings in surrounding cities. Recently, I went to my first dance since COVID started, and it felt magical to stretch my wings in this art form again. I look forward to dancing more in the future.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
