Ep 071: How to Thrive Being the Only Woman in the Room with Gaynor Rich

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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