Why diversity is the key to achieving breakthrough results Details Published: 13 April 2021 Dr Mileidy Giraldo, Global Lead for Life Sciences at Lenovo’s HPC and AI Group, shares how being in roles that intersected fields and cultures has helped her and her team achieve various breakthroughs throughout her career; as well as tips for moving towards a more diverse workforce. I am the child of a single mother, a first-generation college graduate, and Hispanic woman in a STEM field where most of my colleagues are Caucasian, native-English speaking men from families where higher education is a given. While some may think that such circumstances could only mean a life of limited prospects, my triple-minority background has been the key to excelling in multi-disciplinary groups at the intersection of medicine and cutting-edge technology.