Interview: Leading by example

Angela Yochem, EVP Chief Transformation and Digital Officer at Novant Health, on the many detours she took in college, the meaning of community for female leaders, and why we need to tell young women that "doing the hard stuff is super fun and interesting" What initially sparked your interest in technology? It began when my father taught me to write code when I was around 11 years old. Unlike today, an 11-year-old coder was relatively anomalous back then. Even though I didn't know anything about systems building and how machines worked, I saw coding as a way to solve logic problems and I'd write little games to pass the time. After which, I had several detours along my technical journey.