Founder of Spark Academy and Customer Commercialization Lead at Coca-Cola with Tamanna Ramesh

Tamanna Ramesh works in customer commercialization for Coca-Cola's North America food service team, supporting a 400 person sales and marketing organization, and also founded Spark Academy, a career coaching business for food industry professionals navigating job searches, negotiations, and visa pathways.

In this conversation, Tamanna breaks down what her day-to-day at Coca-Cola actually looks like, how she's helping build an agentic AI tool so her team can stop hunting for files and information, and why the way you talk about your own work matters just as much as the work itself. You'll also hear how Spark Academy grew from an accidental side hustle into a business, and why Tamanna thinks about her career as a garden instead of a straight pipeline.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Introduction

01:55 - Her Coca-Cola Role, Explained

04:39 - Connecting Teams Across a Big Org

09:44 - What Is Agentic AI?