“Be bold and courageous,” Olga Suvorova from Samsung Electronics America

Meet Olga Suvorova, Vice President of Marketing at Samsung Electronics America, where she leads integrated marketing across strategy, insights, media, partnerships, product marketing, and go-to-market creative. Olga has spent her career building culturally relevant brands and accelerating revenue growth through strategic and creative innovation across consumer, technology and finance industries.  Her award-winning leadership skills are pushing the envelope of what career success looks like today. 

Olga sat down with Jocelyn Hudak, Senior Director, Content and Digital Marketing from SiriusXM Media at CES to talk about rolling up your sleeves and working as a team, taking the time to listen to others, and how to do it all boldly and courageously. 

Ready to hear Olga’s words of wisdom? Tune in to the full interview below. 

Drive progress through collaboration.

Highlight: “The definition of innovation is the sense of driving progress both for the business but also for the team and for their organization. Driving progress through collaboration is something that I think about a lot. I love rolling up the sleeves and figuring out with the team, ‘How do we push the envelope? How do we challenge the status quo?’ Because so much incredible personal growth comes from that, not only for the business.” - Olga Suvorova 

Create room for visions.

Highlight: “Being a leader is not just being a torch carrier, but creating an environment where the ideas could happen, the vision can be built, the vision could come to life, and people feel really, really invested and empowered is so critical. That's why listening is so important and has always been important. To get people really excited, and passionate, and motivated to come to work every day, and to do things that sometimes are really, really hard, we need to do that.” - Olga Suvorova

Listen to others.

Highlight: “One thing that is really important, and especially has been so important in my new role, is listening. It's listening to our consumers because we can learn so much listening to the team, the ideas, the perspectives, listening to the partners. It's both an opportunity for us to reflect, but also to build something truly exciting and differentiated together, and something that everyone feels like they had a contribution towards building.” - Olga Suvorova

Ask your team what they think.

Highlight: “I love asking my team the question, ‘What do you think and why?’ Because I deeply want to understand what you think, why you think so, because you're the experts. And I would love to learn, and I would love to understand.” - Olga Suvorova

Olga’s words inspire us to be bold and courageous in all of our endeavors. For more powerful content like this, check out the Pass the Mic page.