Tech Teams Today · 2026-07-30 · 47 min
Molly Mae Potter's path to tech leadership started with a 4-year-old's plan to become an astronaut. It ran through Embry-Riddle, a NASA internship, and testing F-22s as an Air Force flight test engineer before a Dell hiring manager bet on a resume nobody else would pick up. Now, as Senior VP of Technology, Engineering and Programs at Dynamic Aviation, she hires the way she was hired: for intellectual curiosity, diversity of experience, and whether she'd want to be stuck on a 15-hour flight with you. In this episode, Molly Mae and Josh dig into how to actually hire for potential when recruiters want checkboxes, why "no one's an expert" is the most useful phrase in an AI-era hiring conversation, the crown-jewels framework for deciding what your org stops doing, and the leadership table moment that made her walk away from a Fortune 100 seat. About Our Guest: Molly Mae Potter is Senior VP of Technology, Engineering and Programs at Dynamic Aviation. A former Air Force flight test engineer on the F-22, she spent nearly a decade at Dell, led security and compliance for HPE GreenLake, and founded the consulting firm Salem CISO.
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