North Pole Marathoner and Oracle Executive: Melissa on Grit in Tech and Endurance

Melissa has navigated billion-dollar transformations in tech, from shrink-wrapped software to global cloud infrastructure and AI, and has run a marathon on a floating sheet of ice with polar bear guards. She connects endurance sport to leading global teams and shares advice for CFOs on risk and understanding a business beyond the numbers.

In This Episode

• Financial leadership through billion-dollar transformations
• Tolerance for risk, and how to build it
• Understanding a business beyond the numbers
• How endurance sport translates to leading global teams
• Communicating across technical and financial domains

• Finance leadership
• Grit
• Tech