Ep 70 - Cecilia Hultén, Entrepreneur, Investor & Board member – “Finding The Bridge”: The Path from Corporate to Entrepreneur, Investor & Board Roles

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How do you go from a senior role at an established company to entrepreneur, investor and Board roles? In this episode, Cecilia Hultén shares how she left a successful banking career in Europe and “built a bridge” to forge her own path. She speaks hard truths about not letting your company own you, managing your “balance sheet”, and how to make the most out of a sabbatical. If you want to move out and up, Cecilia provides practical and creative strategies on networking, creating resources and communications that will accelerate your transformation.

• Cecilia on sparring partners and her first uncomfortable career move
• Kompasbank and cBio: How those two opportunities came to her
• Don’t have a clear plan? Think of a bridge
• Leaving a high paying job and your identity –moving to a “portfolio career”
• Cutting the cord with your old job
• Recasting herself by “replacing her spreadsheets with stories”
• The 6-word story concept
• Why her sales background was valuable
• “Don’t limit yourself when it comes to creating interesting networking opportunities”
• Cecilia’s favored form of networking
• How Cecilia created something out of nothing when she founded Me2We @ Stanford LEAD
• The hard truth about financial freedom and your ability to walk out: Cecilia’s advice on managing your costs, your balance sheet – and your relationship with your company
• How Cecilia’s views on power have changed over time
• Navigating power in a big company vs as an entrepreneur: Cecilia’s take
• How Cecilia, as an investor, detects bravado and BS
• Specific advice for women
• How her experience in the Silicon made her life richer

BIO AND LINKS:

Cecilia Hultén, based in Copenhagen, is a recognized entrepreneur, investor, and Board Member that focuses on fintech and healthtech. Prior to making her transition, she served two decades as a global banking executive with leading financial institutions including UBS and Nordea. She now invests in transformative businesses that solves real-world problems. Cecilia is active in Kompasbank, a European challenger bank for SMEs, Konsolidator, a SaaS company providing a cloud-based consolidation tool, and Hejdoktor, a digital healthcare provider. She has also co-founded Cbio, a biotech company enabling cancer cure, and a data management company, commercializing a project out of MIT's Fintech program. Cecilia holds a BSc from Gothenburg School of Economics, MBA (2nd year) at NYU's Stern School of Business, and completed executive education at MIT, the Stanford GSB, and Singularity University.

• Cecilia on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliahulten/
• Companies she serves: https://kompasbank.dk/da/; https://www.cbio.dk ; https://konsolidator.com ; https://www.temenos.com; https://www.hejdoktor.dk
• DanBAN angel network: https://danban.org/en/
• Profiled at Copenhagen Fintech week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=j0yFZ-i_vX8
• Profiled on Bootstrapping (in Danish): https://bootstrapping.dk/5-skarpe-til-ugens-investor-cecilia-hulten/
• Idea of the 6-word story: https://community.thriveglobal.com/tell-your-story-in-6-words/
• Jonathan Levy’s book, You’re Invited: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/youre-invited-jon-levy
• Stanford LEAD’s Me2We event, founded by Cecilia: https://tinyurl.com/3hj3233h
• The Power Map: https://changwenderoth.com/the-power-map/
• Jeff Pfeffer’s book, 7 Rules of Power: https://tinyurl.com/yh9knn85
• Michael’s Book, Get Promoted: https://tinyurl.com/453txk74

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