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Elif Bıkmaz Is Learning the Company from the CEO's Office Outward
Her route through analytics, talent programs, and the CEO's office is a compact lesson in how an operator learns: count carefully, build collectively, then step closer to the decisions.
The Line That Learned to Disappear
Waitwhile did not abolish the queue. It did something more useful: it uncoupled your place in line from your feet - then rebuilt the machinery when success made the first version creak.
Lisa Vormittag Keeps One Eye on the Ledger and the Other on What Comes Next
For three decades at VAI, Lisa Vormittag has worked where finance meets marketing - turning customer signals, careful planning and a family company’s long memory into a practical operating system for change.
Ziplines Education
Ziplines Education is a San Carlos, California-based career accelerator that partners with universities to deliver flexible, cohort-based online non-credit certificate courses in high-growth fields like AI, project management, digital marketing, business analytics, and Salesforce administration. Founded in 2017 as GreenFig and relaunched as Ziplines Education in 2024 under CEO Sara Leoni, the company blends live instruction, on-demand content, and real-world work simulations to help adult learners close the gap between traditional education and the skills the digital workforce actually demands.
Jess Ramos
Jess Ramos is a data analytics educator, LinkedIn Top Voice, and founder of Big Data Energy - a media and education brand with 500,000+ followers across platforms. With an MSBA from the University of Georgia, she turned a corporate analytics career (peaking at $153K at Crunchbase) into a thriving solo business after being laid off in 2023. She runs a Substack newsletter with 45,000+ subscribers, teaches SQL to 50,000+ students via LinkedIn Learning, and has brand partnerships with IBM, AWS, Snowflake, NFL, and Claude (Anthropic). Her origin story - doubling her salary 110% in 11 months - became a viral moment that built her community of data professionals seeking real, human-centric career guidance.