Women at the Top of Telecoms and Tech

Today, I want to talk about something that has come up for myself and my clients and that is feeling demotivated and how to refine that motivation.

How to refine that sense of having the energy, having the passion, having the purpose, and then the energy to really focus in, deliver and have that real resilience when things don't go right or when things need to change.

So I am going to give you 5 useful steps to help you discover your motivation and inspiration.

Here are the highlights:

• (01:26) How organisations are struggling at the moment
• (07:44) The difference between motivation and inspiration
• (13:40) Think about your energy
• (15:26) Are you overly focusing on things you can't control?
• (16:55) Get super clear on what you're expected to deliver
• (18:29) Refine your passion
• (19:20) Go back to your purpose

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In today's episode, I really want to focus on how to help you as a leader, to identify and meet your own needs first. This is what I focus on in the first part of my program, the Find Your Fire program. Before we get into leadership identity, before we get into thinking about your purpose and purposeful relationships, we look at something called feel good foundations.

Your feel good foundations are your leadership oxygen mask and they help you create time and space to identify and meet your own needs.

Here are the highlights:

• (05:31) What are the feel good foundations
• (07:48) Come back to leading yourself first
• (09:28) We're going to help you to create these feel good foundations
• (11:49) Finding your fire starts with you and focusing back on you
• (15:38) You are a leader of one from the day you're born
• (19:01) Reclaim you, reclaim your time, it is valuable

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This week, I'm going to be talking about a subject that has come up for me over the last few months and seems to be increasingly important in organisations. We are in challenging times in the wider corporate world, especially in telecoms and tech. There is the cost of living crisis with fuel increases and your money is not going as far because your day-to-day expenses are increasing.

So how does that impact you and your teams?

Here are the highlights:

• (06:29) As a leader you need to look at practical support for your team
• (06:56) PwC survey results
• (07:41) You can offer financial support and all non-monetary interventions
• (08:55) Have empathy and understanding as a leader
• (10:22) Does someone need some support with their mental health?
• (14:37) How are you going to create loyalty within your team?

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This week, I am joined by an incredible guest, Cindyrella Amistadi. Cindyrella is the Managing Director of JP Morgan Chase & Co and we discuss her impressive career journey, how she got to this position, her experience of being in a male-dominated business and how not fearing failure has helped her.

Cindyrella also reveals some important lessons on leadership and how being kind is everyone's superpower.

Here are the highlights:

• (02:10) Cindyrella's career journey
• (04:45) The challenges she faced
• (12:33) How Cindyrella tackled some of these challenges
• (14:07) We have to learn to fail in life
• (21:44) Reach out for help and find the right support
• (25:42) When Cindyrella faced bias or exclusion
• (36:04) Has there been a shift in leadership style?
• (41:35) Cindyrella's final lessons

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About Cindyrella Amistadi:

Cindyrella Amistadi joined JPMorgan in Luxembourg as a Managing Director within Digital and Platform Services (DPS) in 2018. She acts as a JPMSE Board Member in charge of Opera-tions, Technology and Outsourcing.

In her current role, Cindyrella manages and oversees our Operations, Outsourcing govern-ance and Technology at the legal entity level, supported by her leadership team located in Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Dublin. Her role is focused on establishing aligned governance and oversight across JPMSE's business lines as well as all outsourced activities and it includes maintaining strong relationships with our regulators, ensuring compliance with regulatory expectations while leveraging as much as possible our global model.

Cindyrella is a key advocate of the DPS people strategy and built a culture of continuous learning. Guided by her passion for creating an environment where Diversity and Inclusion is key in all aspects of the business, she is currently senior sponsor for the Benelux WOTM and is heavily invested in recruiting, mentoring and empowering diverse staff. She regularly par-ticipates in round tables and events sharing her experiences as a leader and championing these principles and values.

Cindyrella is a senior leader having spent more than 20 years in the financial services indus-try. She joined the firm from Credit Suisse, where she was Chief Executive Officer of Multi-concept Fund Management SA.. Other previous roles include Managing Director, Head of Fund Accounting, Regulatory Reporting and Off-shore Tax Operations at BNY Mellon, and Head of Tax, Financial and Operational Reporting at CACEIS.

Cindyrella holds a diploma in French Law and an initiation in German private and public law from Centre Juridique Franco-Allemand, a Bachelor's degree in Private Law and Master's de-gree in Business Law from the University Robert Schuman.

In her free time, Cindyrella enjoys scuba diving, reading, cooking and hiking.

Contact Cindyrella:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindyrella-amistadi-47331b1/

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In today's episode, we're going to be talking about quiet quitting. I'm going to explain what quiet quitting actually is because I think it's a term that's been used a lot recently and I want to get us really clear on what it actually means. Then we're going to talk about the reasons that this is showing up more and more in businesses.

I'll also talk about some of the signs that your employees might be quiet quitting and how to recognise it and what you can do about it. And I'll also be discussing how it's really difficult for women to actually quiet quit and I'll put some context around it for women in organisations as well.

Here are the highlights:

• (01:53) The definition of quiet quitting
• (03:01) Statistics surrounding quiet quitting
• (04:58) Looking at quiet quitting from a different perspective
• (08:10) Two noticeable shifts between employees and organisations
• (13:58) Spotting the signs that someone might be quiet quitting
• (23:00) What can leaders do about it
• (26:57) Why it's harder for women to quiet quit

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In today's episode, I'm going to be focusing on the biggest issues that women face at work which are stopping them getting to the most senior positions, to being on the board, to being in those huge meetings where the direction of the company and the strategy is set.

So today I'm going to help you to have those difficult conversations in the workplace by listing out what we see as the Top 10 issues that are really affecting women to progress in business especially telecoms and tech and how you can change them.

Here are the highlights:

• (03:3) Flexible working arrangements
• (06:49) Equal pay
• (09:17) Race and gender bias
• (11:12) Access to the "hot jobs"
• (12:54) Role models
• (15:04) Sponsorship
• (17:12) Sexual harassment
• (20:04) Non-inclusive workplaces
• (21:34) The double bind
• (23:47) Supporting women across different chapters oftener life

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This week, I'm joined by the fantastic Sara Jones. Sara works for BT, she is the 2nd Line Mobile Operations Director, she was awarded Leader of the Year 2022, so a very recent, shiny award. She's also a STEM ambassador and she's doing some great work going into schools and talking to young women about why telecoms and tech is a brilliant industry to join.

Today our focus is going to be a conversation around how Sara's got to where she is, and also we discuss why there are not more women at the most senior level in telecoms and tech.

Here are the highlights:

• (02:44) Sara's career
• (07:49) Lack of diversity can have a financial impact on your business
• (11:10) Companies need to have programs in pace for diverse talent
• (19:55) Unconscious bias
• (22:43) Working in schools and mentoring at the grassroots
• (26:51) Work has got to feel a bit like family and home
• (43:54) Sara's final message

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About Sara Jones:

Sara has been working in the Mobile telecommunications industry for over 21 years, moving from Design Engineering roles into Senior Management. On top of her demanding role maintaining and operating the EE mobile network 24/7, Sara is very passionate about get more women and diversity into technology careers and leadership positions. She is a very active STEM ambassador in the South West of England, an Aleto and Cajigo mentor, and an early careers mentor within BT and externally. She also supports and mentors within BT EDN (Ethnic Diversity Network). Sara leads partnerships for BT Technology including Cajigo and 10k Black Interns, and actively supports CodeFirstGirls and BT's Women Returners programmes. Sara also works with charities such as the National Autistic society to offer placements and showcase technology roles. She was awarded Leader of the Year 2022, and recently been selected to feature on the D list (www.d-list.uk) for all her work, including many speeches, podcasts, panel talks and work with Schools and partners.

Contact Sara:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-jones-a269942/

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This week, we're going be talking about something that I think is incredibly important, and that is role modelling and the power of role modelling for women in leadership. We're going talk about the idea of a role model, what it actually is and I'm going to share some of my experiences around role models. Then I'm going to give you some of the benefits of role models and then finally, I'm going to close with an invitation for you to become a role model as well.

Here are the highlights:

• (02:55) It's hard to be what you cannot see
• (05:21) A role model is someone that you look up to, inspired by and aspire to be like
• (08:58) Role models represent and explained what is possible
• (09:26) Role models inspire women to be more ambitious and aim higher
• (10:00) Role models demonstrate mindsets and behaviours of how to rise
• (11:39) What are the benefits of role models?
• (18:32) I invite you to pay it forward

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In this week's episode, we're going to be talking about the double bind dilemma for women in leadership. The old saying you're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't really sums it up.

For women, there's this double bind in leadership that you are either too soft and you are too compassionate and you let people get away with things or rough ride over you, or you are too tough. In which case you are assertive, you are aggressive. You can be a bit of a bitch, but the main point is that you are never just right. You're never exactly the right amount of whatever you need to be.

So, I'm going t be focusing on the three different predicaments at the heart of it of this dilemma and how businesses can help.

Here are the highlights:

• (04:01) Extreme perceptions of women leaders
• (07:22) How do we get past this challenge?
• (08:06) High competence threshold
• (09:40) How can leaders step past the competency threshold
• (11:35) Competent but disliked
• (13:31) Strategies to overcome these challenges

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This week, I'm joined by the brilliant Gaynor Rich. Gaynor has been working in the Cyber Security industry for over 25 years and leading in delivering strategic global cyber information, security strategy, governance plans and policies across a broad range of industry sectors.

She is a trusted executive-level advisor with a lot of different accomplishments. Balancing compliance obligations with commerciality and pragmatism, to really support and drive organisational growth and development. She's a perceptive, influential leader with some really acute business acumen and expertise in building, empowering and leading high-performance teams to stimulate transformational change, improved performance and obviously increased profitability.

We talk about being the only woman in the room, how she copes with that, inclusivity and how she has reinvented herself more times than Madonna!

Here are the highlights:

• (02:35) Gaynor's journey to where she is now in her career
• (10:04) Being inquisitive
• (14:44) I want to position my team to be a business enabler
• (17:09) The importance of having role models
• (21:41) Preparing to be the only woman in the room
• (24:35) Mentoring and sponsors
• (30:16) What's next for Gaynor

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About Gaynor:

Gaynor has been working in the Cyber Security industry for over 25 years success informing, leading, and delivering strategic global cyber and information security strategy, governance, plans and policies across broad range of industry sectors. A Trusted executive-level advisor with repeated accomplishments balancing compliance obligations with due commerciality and pragmatism to achieve organisational growth and development. Perceptive, influential leader with acute business acumen and expertise in building, empowering, and leading high-performance teams to stimulate transformational change, improved performance, and increased profitability. On top of her demanding role leading cybersecurity change across BT group, Gaynor is a STEM ambassador, Cajigo Mentor and a key member of the BT Diversity & Inclusion team. She is passionate about inclusive recruitment, encouraging girls from all backgrounds into Technology careers.

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