About This Discussion:

What a great night at the latest recording of our Women In Tech series. This time we were able to sit down with Jodie Brinkerhoff, Vice president of Innovation at DFW Airport. Our main theme was choices and how they affect our careers. The considerations to take when making big career moves, and how these choices get us to our end goal. We also discuss the importance of cultivating relationships with people. DFW Airport may be a city where Jodie and her Innovation teamwork to implement new products and solutions to keep things running smoothly but the people and doing what is right for the customer is at the core. The customers that fly in and out, the employees, and partnering with those that work within DFW Airport. Forming lasting professional relationships and demonstrating that you care about people makes a lasting impact.
We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, we had so much fun recording it.

 

 

About Jodie Brinkerhoff:

Jodie Brinkerhoff is Vice President of Innovation at DFW Airport and leads the Innovation team’s efforts to investigate, ideate, incubate and implement new products and solutions for the airport. Her team works across the enterprise, partnering with core business units and bringing new, emerging technologies as enablers to critical problem solving. She is also responsible for working to develop innovation skill building and culture initiatives for employees.

 

Jodie is passionate about understanding new trends and emerging technologies, inspiring transformational corporate culture, and building what’s right for the customer using insights, design thinking, and other innovation techniques. She has a love of work with both start-up ventures and corporate enterprises — her favorite depends on the day. Jodie is an entrepreneurial self-starter with a keen ability to lead through ambiguity and disrupt the status quo.

 

Prior to joining DFW, Jodie was the North American regional lead for Mastercard’s Labs Unit where she worked with internal product teams and top brands in the retail, banking, and hospitality verticals to deliver new business and consumer solutions. Jodie also spent part of her career as a start up executive with responsibility for sales, client success and marketing. Jodie holds a BA in Communications from Loyola University in Maryland and a master’s degree in business from the University of San Francisco.

 

Here’s The Official Breakdown:

0:00 Glo, introduction.

2:41 Women in Tech series with Jodie Brinkerhoff, VP Innovation at DFW Airport.
3:20 Innovation and cross-functional collaboration.

4:20 Introduction Jodie and guests.

5:37 The theme of the evening, choices.

6:06 Describe yourself in six words.

6:58 Getting people to think outside the box and beyond their title, team building.

8:14 The power of relationships.

10:09 What is your check-in policy to cultivate connections and relationships?

10:51 It is a practice and demonstrating that you care about people and how they are doing.

12:30 Is there a difference in how you approach personal and professional relationships?

13:40 How do you approach the team dynamic relationship?

14:26 What is your best tip for building a cohesive team?

15:18 Building a diverse team by design.

16:08 There is tremendous opportunity in our space to be innovative.

17:00 Often times opportunities are a manifestation of the choices you’ve made to get there.

17:50 What do challenges present to you in terms of learning and building a portfolio of skills?