Executive lens
Guidance for navigating senior rooms, competing priorities, and career moments where strategic clarity matters.
About Voice in Tech Leadership
Built for women who are already leading — and ready to be seen differently.
Voice in Tech combines career coaching, and practical influence-building for women technologists navigating business and technical leadership in the Microsoft ecosystem.
The why
Technology leadership rewards impact — but impact must be understood.
Many women in technology build deep credibility by delivering, solving, mentoring, and stabilizing complex work. But career momentum often depends on more than doing excellent work. It requires a clear leadership narrative, the right rooms, visible sponsorship, and a voice that lands.
“Your work can be excellent and still under-recognized. Visible leadership is the bridge between contribution and opportunity.”Voice in Tech principle
Founder perspective
Coaching grounded in real technology leadership.
Visible Leader was created from years of experience leading in technology, working across enterprise clients, partner ecosystems, community mentoring, speaking, and executive transformation.
Technology context
Support that understands complex delivery, product, consulting, AI, data, platform, and business transformation environments.
Practical coaching
Not generic confidence advice. Structured tools, messaging, role strategy, and stakeholder plans you can use immediately.
Next step
Let’s map your visibility gap.
Book a call to identify where your confidence, influence, and impact can create the most momentum.
About Voice in Tech Leadership
Helping women technologists be heard, respected, and recognized
Voice in Tech Leadership by ITMLCompass was created to help women technologists build the confidence, influence, and impact to be heard in technology environments where their expertise is too often underestimated, interrupted, or overlooked.
This work is grounded in Nancie Calder's 40+ years of experience as a senior technology leader, mentor, speaker, and community builder in the Microsoft ecosystem. Over the course of my career, I have seen how often talented women in technology are known for being capable, dependable, and collaborative — but are not always positioned to be heard, credited, sponsored, or advanced in the same way as others around them.
Voice in Tech Leadership exists to change that. It is not traditional executive coaching. It is practical, career-focused support for women technologists who want to strengthen their voice, claim space in the room, and turn their capability into recognition, opportunity, and momentum.
My Professional Profile
I bring decades of experience in technology consulting, business applications, CRM, customer engagement, AI strategy, and global practice leadership.
- Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), recognized as an exceptional community leader for technical expertise, leadership, advocacy, speaking, and knowledge sharing across the Microsoft ecosystem
- Project Management Professional (PMP®), demonstrating disciplined project leadership, delivery governance, stakeholder communication, and the ability to translate complex work into measurable business value
- Information Technology Management and Leadership Executive (ITMLE®) credential, reflecting advanced capability in IT leadership, business alignment, governance, and strategic technology management
- Senior leadership experience in professional services consulting within GSI, SI, ISV, and VARs
- Deep expertise in the Microsoft ecosystem, including Dynamics 365, customer engagement, and AI
- Experience leading global practices, capability development, and go-to-market strategy
- Speaker and advisor on AI, CRM, leadership, and the future of work
- Mentor and advocate for women building careers in technology
Community Work Through ITM&L Compass
ITM&L Compass stands for Information Technology Management & Leadership Compass. It reflects my commitment to helping technology professionals navigate not only technical careers, but also the leadership, visibility, and influence required to grow within them.
- Mentorship and career guidance for technology professionals
- Leadership development for women in technology
- Community-based learning, discussion, and support
- Practical coaching on confidence, influence, and career positioning
- Creating spaces where women technologists can strengthen their voice and be heard
- Collaboration with the ITML Institute and Dynamics User Group to bring a volunteer mentorship program to the community
- Mentorship programming focused on practical career guidance, leadership growth, communication, and professional confidence
- Community support for technology professionals navigating career progression, visibility, and leadership development
Why this work matters
Many women in technology do not need more proof that they are capable. They need support in being heard, recognized, sponsored, and advanced. Too often, women technologists are expected to over-prepare, over-explain, and over-deliver while still having their ideas questioned, repeated by others, or left out of key decisions.
My goal is to help women change that dynamic — not by becoming someone else, but by learning how to communicate their value more clearly, build influence more intentionally, and step more confidently into the opportunities they deserve.
Confidence
Speak with clarity, authority, and calm presence in technical and leadership conversations.
Influence
Shape conversations, decisions, stakeholder relationships, and career opportunities.
Impact
Turn technical capability into recognition, sponsorship, and visible career momentum.
Short Bio
Nancie Calder is a senior technology leader, mentor, speaker, and community builder in the Microsoft ecosystem. Through Voice in Tech Leadership by ITMLCompass, she helps women technologists build the confidence, influence, and impact to be heard, respected, and recognized in male-dominated technology environments.