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title: "From Motherhood to Forbes - Building a Career in AI"
description: "In this episode of Voices Voices, Lara Varlamova spoke with Tina Valand, Generative AI Director and Co-Founder of Women in Alliances, to talk about the realities of building a career in a fast-changing world."
canonical_url: "https://visionvoices.me/videos/tina-valand"
last_updated: "2026-05-20T06:47:22.475Z"
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In this episode of Voices Voices, Lara Varlamova spoke with Tina Valand, Generative AI Director and Co-Founder of
Women in Alliances, to talk about the realities of building a career in a fast-changing world.

They talk honestly about:

- ✅ What it really takes to adopt AI in complex organizations
- ✅ How to start building internal AI capability (and where most fail)
- ✅ Why women often consider stepping away from their careers
- ✅ And the power of women supporting women

Tina shares how she nearly left her career — and what changed everything. From building innovation labs to building
networks that support women globally, her story is a powerful reminder that ambition doesn’t disappear when life
gets hard — but the system still expects it to.

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