“What am I really choosing!?”

 Mary Guerdoux-Harries’s professional background is in engineering. Her career has evolved. She specialized in leading transformation and continuous improvement projects. She loves innovation and change. Where she gets the most satisfaction is in coaching, training and mentoring, in order to implement positive change. 

 She currently works for Thales in the Underwater Systems Business line in Sophia Antipolis. She works in Operations, where she leads a team of 25 people and also leads a transformation project to change ways of working within engineering. 

 She is Franco-British and has been working in France since 2006. She has also worked in Switzerland and in Australia.  

 She is a Mum to a daughter who is three and has three step-children: two boys who are 9 and a girl who is 14. 

 Outside of work she enjoys sports, particularly running, cycling and walking. She also loves reading and can often be found in a café by the beach. 

We talked about :

-The small things companies can do to support working mums and make a difference

-The Mums avatars : the different styles of being a mother

-Parenting role models in film and parenting styles

References : 

 Mary’s Linkedin page  

 Book : Free Range Human by Marianne Cantwell

 Le Club des Simone 

 Restaurant L’Arret au Port 

Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur Mentoring Program open until December 15th 2021 : more info here  

Serena’s LinkedIn 

Serena’s Underwear brand Akimba 

Serena’s Instagram 

Professional Women’s Network Nice Côte d’Azur  

Professional Women’s Network Global