Ep 059: “Why Not Me?” with Kirsty Baxter-Smith
Women at the Top of Telecoms and Tech
English - August 03, 2022 04:30 - 53 minutes - 74.9 MBManagement Business Entrepreneurship business coaching development equality leadership entrepreneur female management success women Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week we're celebrating the one-year anniversary of this podcast and its new name, ‘Women at the Top of Telecoms and Tech’. Throughout the week we are interviewing some brilliant and inspiring women who are at the top of their businesses.
Today I’m joined by the fantastic Kirsty Baxter-Smith. Kirsty is someone who has got to a very senior position within a huge organisation without having an absolute career plan. She didn’t have a very techy background, or a degree or certain A -Levels and yet she’s done it anyway! Kirsty is brilliantly honest and she shares some of her lived experiences, lessons from her career and what organisations can do to retain women at the top.
Here are the highlights:
(08:54) How Kirsty where she is today in her career (12:09) Not giving into imposter syndrome (19:05) We are attracting female talent but we need to retain them (22:17) What can organisations do around retention (28:36) What did she take away from her failures (32:34) Having allies and being an ally (37:46) Why is there a reticence to self-promote? (41:49) Women helping other women is so powerful (45:14) Why not me? (51:09) Kirsty’s final message
Imposter Syndrome article: https://hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-have-imposter-syndrome
Book recommendation: The Promises of Giants by John Amaechi
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About Kirsty:
Kirsty has been working in the Mobile Telecommunications industry for over 20 years, as part of the team delivering several of the UK’s major mobile infrastructure milestones, including 4G and 5G.
She led the team supporting EE - the UK’s biggest mobile network, during the Covid-19 pandemic and UK lockdowns and is now a senior leader with BT, helping to build, implement and support the new mobile cloud core network.
She is passionate about creating opportunities for women in technology, particularly retaining women as they develop and progress in their careers, supporting them to move into leadership roles and create opportunities for others.
Contact:
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-baxter-smith-2112601
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