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#28 - Lee Georgs - A 1000 Different Pressures
In this episode, I am talking to Lee Georgs, Chief Operating Officer at Eighteen48 Partners, a London-based Private Investment Office serving families and endowments. She’s worked in the global financial services industry for almost three decades, starting in Private Banking and Wealth Management in New York with Citibank and JP Morgan. She moved overseas in 2006, to become Director of Global Accounts for RGP in Hong Kong, before ending up in London and M&A Project Management at Credit Suisse. She stepped into the COO role, first at Redington in 2017 (where she also served as Executive Board Director) and then, six years later, at Eighteen48 where she is now.
An Ambassador for The Diversity Project (the U.K.’s Investment Management Industry Diversity body), Lee is also an LGBT Great Ally as well as a volunteer with Speakers for Schools (an organization dedicated to encouraging young people to pursue careers in Financial Services) and GAIN (Girls are Investors).
In our conversation, Lee shares…
🔵 The importance of showing the messiness of life
🔵 What she learnt when she was 5 and how that still shows up for her.
🔵 And why - for Lee - it’s always about the people!
Outline📍
00:00 Intro
02:42 How do you experience pressure?
06:10 What is the relationship between pressure and guilt for you?
09:57 What produces pressure for you in your role now?
11:35 What’s the worst pressure you’ve ever experienced?
15:13 How did you overcome the need for permission to speak your mind?
21:45 Insight 1: Lessons learned
24:24 How do you combine your roles as a female role model, and successful working mum, to help you manage pressures?
28:55 How do you support team members who are visibly under pressure?
32:59 Do you intentionally create an environment in meetings that encourages people to share their thoughts and foster both formal and informal connections?
35:55 What is your relationship with pressure in terms of your own ambition?
43:19 Insight 2: Lessons learned
45:06 What 2 pieces of advice would you pass forward to be better under pressure?
50:32 Outro
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By Sara Milne RoweIn this episode, I am talking to Lee Georgs, Chief Operating Officer at Eighteen48 Partners, a London-based Private Investment Office serving families and endowments. She’s worked in the global financial services industry for almost three decades, starting in Private Banking and Wealth Management in New York with Citibank and JP Morgan. She moved overseas in 2006, to become Director of Global Accounts for RGP in Hong Kong, before ending up in London and M&A Project Management at Credit Suisse. She stepped into the COO role, first at Redington in 2017 (where she also served as Executive Board Director) and then, six years later, at Eighteen48 where she is now.
An Ambassador for The Diversity Project (the U.K.’s Investment Management Industry Diversity body), Lee is also an LGBT Great Ally as well as a volunteer with Speakers for Schools (an organization dedicated to encouraging young people to pursue careers in Financial Services) and GAIN (Girls are Investors).
In our conversation, Lee shares…
🔵 The importance of showing the messiness of life
🔵 What she learnt when she was 5 and how that still shows up for her.
🔵 And why - for Lee - it’s always about the people!
Outline📍
00:00 Intro
02:42 How do you experience pressure?
06:10 What is the relationship between pressure and guilt for you?
09:57 What produces pressure for you in your role now?
11:35 What’s the worst pressure you’ve ever experienced?
15:13 How did you overcome the need for permission to speak your mind?
21:45 Insight 1: Lessons learned
24:24 How do you combine your roles as a female role model, and successful working mum, to help you manage pressures?
28:55 How do you support team members who are visibly under pressure?
32:59 Do you intentionally create an environment in meetings that encourages people to share their thoughts and foster both formal and informal connections?
35:55 What is your relationship with pressure in terms of your own ambition?
43:19 Insight 2: Lessons learned
45:06 What 2 pieces of advice would you pass forward to be better under pressure?
50:32 Outro