Ep 061: Owning your Ambition with Jules Sivajoti

This interview concludes our week celebrating the podcast’s one-year anniversary and its name change. Today’s interview is with Jules Sivajoti, Jules is an HR Director in BT’s Digital Unit supporting the people strategies for the division’s CIOs alongside the business’ start-up hub. Her role entails driving organisational development and design, supporting people management for the leaders in the business tasked with modernising BT and driving its innovation into new sectors.

We are going to talk about not being afraid of your own ambition and that you can have success in different streams of your life which will look different for everyone.

Here are the highlights:

(05:53) Jules’ career story (09:31) Having a lack of clarity whilst on maternity leave (17:39) Women articulating their ambition (27:23) Ambitious men are treated differently than ambitious women (31:39) How can we keep progressing and moving up? (34:39) Ask for feedback (39:12) How can organisations help women foster their ambition and speak about it? (41:10) Jules’ final message

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About Jules:

Jules is an HR Director in BT’s Digital unit, supporting the people strategies for the division’s CIOs alongside the business’ start up hub. Her role entails driving organisational development and design, supporting people management for the leaders in the business tasked with modernising BT and driving its innovation into new sectors. As programme lead, she supported in the creation of the digital organisation for BT, which included coalescing seven separate functions out of various parts of BT and forming them into the Digital unit.

Her previous experience spans FMCG, Telecoms, manufacturing, global, full E2E organisational design, working in both unionised and non-unionised environments.

Prior to joining BT, Julie-Anne worked in a range of HR roles  at Unilever, both for U.K. and global businesses.

Jules is also a mother to three young children, and still learning how to balance her work and her family life!

 

Contact Jules:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-anne-sivajoti-016a2517

 

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