STELLIFY Podcast

Episode 20:  How you can Secure a Seat at the Leadership Table - with Uche Maple

September 11, 2020 Bralade
STELLIFY Podcast
Episode 20:  How you can Secure a Seat at the Leadership Table - with Uche Maple
Show Notes

In Episode 20, learn how to secure your seat at the leadership table with professional development guidance from Ucheonye Maple. In this episode, she highlights the biggest obstacle in the way of career women and how to navigate them. She shares from her rich cultural perspective the practices she has honed to help her be the leader and coach she is today, in corporate America.

Key learnings of the episode are:

  • Securing your seat at the leadership table 10:59
  • “Don’t just expand, keep your network”  13:18     
  • How to have crucial conversations 18:46
  • How to manage performance setbacks 25:14
  • Don’t allow your education stop your schooling 29:31
  • Why you should have a coach in your career 31:43
  • Balancing concerns with optimism 40:52


Ucheonye Maple is a recognized Systems Engineering leader with a proven track record of empowering and motivating STEM professionals. Speaker, coach and mentor in the STEM community. Because of the struggles she saw African Americans and women STEM professionals experience in the advancement of their career, Uche started Aghaeze-Maple Enterprises LLC, a career development coaching and consultancy company. Her mission is to educate STEM professionals on how to take ownership of their own careers and advance.

She is currently a Systems Engineering Manager at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. Uche received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University, MBA from University of Phoenix and her M.S. in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She is also a graduate from the Leadership Essentials Program at Loyola University.

Connect with Uche on www.ucheonyemaple.com, on LinkedIn and Facebook @UcheonyeMaple. Join her Personal Brand Challenge from September 21-25, 2020 to identify what you do best, for whom you do it, and why you do it better than anybody else.

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