She watched a brilliant female CEO — strategic, skilled, accomplished — get pushed out of her company. And in that moment, Alejandra had a realization that changed how she thinks about her entire career: if it can happen to her, it can happen to any of us. A job title is the most fragile kind of power there is. The only power that can't be taken away is the one you build inside yourself.

Alejandra is SVP of Technology, Global Infrastructure Solutions at Equifax, leading teams across multiple countries and continents. She also runs "I Am Remarkable" workshops — originally a Google initiative — helping professionals, especially women and underrepresented groups, learn to celebrate their own achievements out loud. She did not always find this easy. Growing up in Argentina, where the culture does not reward self-promotion the way the U.S. does, she spent years assuming her work would speak for itself. It didn't.

In this episode, she shares what she learned late, by her own admission, and what she now teaches others from the start.

You'll learn:

Why waiting for others to recognize your achievements is a trap, and the mindset shift that breaks it
The story of how she walked into a job interview at 22 with no experience and got hired on boldness and a single honest promise
Why she left a well-paying job that supported her family to escape bias, and how she made that decision
The difference between title-based power and internal power, and why only one of them survives a corporate restructure
The single biggest leadership gap she sees across cultures, levels, and industries, and it's not what most leaders focus on
How values contain ambition and keep influence from crossing into manipulation
The practical system she teaches for tracking and sharing your own achievements before you forget them

If you've been doing great work and waiting for someone to notice, this episode reframes that habit entirely.

About Alejandra: SVP of Technology, Global Infrastructure Solutions at Equifax, Alejandra leads infrastructure teams across the globe. Originally from Buenos Aires, she moved to the U.S. seven years ago. She is an advisory board member of WATT (Women Advancing Technology Together) at Equifax, a board member of the Start House Foundation, an active facilitator of the I Am Remarkable initiative, and a member of Women in Technology (WIT) Atlanta.

Stop Waiting to Be Recognized: How Equifax SVP Alejandra Learned to Promote Herself — and Why You Need To