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Podcast: Abstract Essay
Episode: In its sixth season, Abstract Essay welcomes Sonia Couto, a seasoned tech leader, SaaS founder, and managing director whose work centers on building strategic, resilient leadership for modern founders. This episode explores the realities of leading in high-growth, high-pressure environments where clarity, adaptability, and emotional intelligence are essential.
Description: Sonia CoutoTech Leader | SaaS Founder | Managing Director | Strategic + Resilient Leadership for FoundersSonia Couto is an award-winning tech founder, operator, product builder, and breast cancer survivor recognized for transforming chaotic environments into clear, grounded, and high-performing systems.With over 20 years in software leadership, she has rebuilt failing SaaS products into global platforms, led teams through intense uncertainty, and made complex problems solvable through her philosophy of common-sense leadership in a complicated world.Her leadership approach was shaped long before tech, rooted in her immigrant upbringing, early years on factory floors...