Some forms of leadership are never announced. They don’t come with a new title or a signature at the end of an email. They show up as consistency, responsibility, empathy, and decisions that hold everything together.
This article is shaped by the voices of Sairy González and Sara Mencias from our IT Department, and Nabila Zuniga and Bertha Barrientos from our Recruiting Team. In January, we celebrate women who work, grow, and lead within their teams, often in environments where doing so requires resilience, courage, and persistence.
Leadership is also about keeping things running. When systems run smoothly, it often goes unnoticed. But behind every stable process and every secure operation, there are women making decisions, solving problems, and sustaining critical workflows.
Sara experiences leadership in a role that is never repetitive. There is always something new to solve or improve. In her role, leadership is rooted in trust:
“Leadership is about building trust, even at a distance. It’s about being present without being physically there, giving clear guidance, supporting others, and enabling solutions.”
Sara Mencias, IT
Sairy sees leadership lives in everyday actions: supporting others without keeping score, guiding without judgment, and remembering that mistakes are part of learning.
“I learned to face the fear that once held me back. To not underestimate small achievements, and to stop comparing my progress to others.”
Sairy González, IT
Preparing, trying again, and moving forward are different stages of leadership. Each one demands patience, self-awareness, and the willingness to keep learning.
Women in technology: presence that creates change
Technology remains a space where female representation is still being built. Every woman working in IT contributes to a growing reality: women who enter, stay, develop, and advance.
Sara acknowledges that there were moments when she felt the need to prove herself more, especially in remote environments where results speak louder than visibility. Over time, she learned that consistency and discipline are powerful forms of leadership.
For Sairy, growth also meant confronting fear when speaking in front of others, feeling small in large rooms, and learning to move forward anyway. Leadership, here, is persistence.
Recruiting: leading through human connection
In Recruiting, leadership often shows up in the experience candidates take with them. Nabila Zuniga leads from an equally strategic place: people’s experiences. Every conversation, every follow-up, and every word carries weight.
“Positive influence starts with treating candidates with the respect they deserve and being a supportive presence for the team, always ready to help.”
Nabila Zuniga, Recruiting
For many people seeking opportunities to grow and improve their lives, recruiting becomes a point of connection between talent, hope, and possibility. Leading this space requires empathy, responsibility, and integrity.
Alongside her, Bertha Barrientos brings a perspective shaped by skills that have long sustained people-centered work. These aren’t secondary traits—they’re the backbone of how recruiting runs, and how candidates experience the process.
“Empathy, effective communication, and active listening help create a better experience for candidates. Added to that, organization, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple tasks play a key role. We’re great at multitasking.”
Bertha Barrientos, Recruiting
This kind of leadership doesn’t appear all at once, and it doesn’t always ask to be named. It grows quietly through daily work, shared responsibility, and the choice to keep showing up. It lives in the decisions that sustain teams and the commitment to keep moving forward, even when the path isn’t always clear, especially in women working remotely, supporting teams, and choosing not to stop growing.
What leadership looks like
When they speak about the future, Sairy and Sara don’t focus only on technical goals. They speak about being support systems, becoming references, and showing that growth in technology is possible through discipline, balance, and commitment.
In IT, that leadership shows up in steadiness, protecting what runs, solving what breaks, and improving what can be improved. From Recruiting, Nabila and Bertha echo that same intention, shaping the experience through care, building trust through consistency, and opening doors through work that is both precise and deeply human.
And wherever women continue to push foward step by step, they lead every single day. That is leadership.