”Weapons-Grade Delegator” Series 3, Episode 2. Sophy Norris in conversation with Lisa Quest. Partner, Head of UK And Ireland and Co-Head of the Gove...

This Series of The Dangerous Women Collective Podcast is sponsored by ESET, providing Next-Gen Digital Security for Home and Business.

In Episode 2, Sophy Norris speaks to international powerhouse, advisor to governments and industry, university lecturer, public speaker, arts and crafts enthusiast and working mother - Lisa Quest.

Lisa works with senior civil servants and ministers as well as executives of the UK&I’s leading institutions on topics spanning digital transformation, governance, strategy, financial planning, risk management and public policy & regulatory response. Lisa has advised senior government leaders and policymakers on topics of industry competitiveness and stability, and co-authored numerous articles and studies, including supporting the IBFed on the entrance of Big Tech into Financial Services, the Impact of digitalisation on the economy's regulatory structures, and the future of supervision.

She is also a keen advocate of inclusion and a sponsor of diversity– she sits on the Oliver Wyman’s inclusion council, is executive sponsor of Oliver Wyman’s Women of Oliver Wyman and was shortlisted for Mentor of the Year by Management Today Magazine and names on of the Top 100 Female Executives on the HERos list.

Lisa is also a Visiting Academic Fellow at the London School of Economics, Centre for Risk and Regulation. She holds a First-Class Honours degree in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, Canada and a Master's degree in Public Administration in European Public and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics.

We are not exaggerating when we say international powerhouse!

In this wide-ranging Episode, which zooms in on leadership and the power of devolved teams i, we touch on several topics including:

• Managing work-life balance, and the power of surrounding yourself with smart teams who co-share work with you.
• Rewriting our leadership style to build a team of leaders, a team built on trust, collaboration and support, enabling each individual to deliver what they are best at.
• Consciously checking out, being "dirty, barefoot and outside", to recalibrate, energise and bring clarity and creativity back into our working and home lives.
• Rising through a male-dominated workplace by finding sponsors and mentors, and actively learning from "dangerous" colleagues.
• Being ultra alert to the mood in "the room" - recalibrating our own role within that room and understanding the agendas and purpose of the people around us.
• Understanding that being the only woman in a room can help you stand out. And recognising the dynamic shift when 30% of people in a room are female.
• Why it's important to be able to look a long way down the road.
• Also, why it's important to say "I don't know".
• And of course, what it means to be a "weapons-grade delegator".

Links:

Lisa Quest | Sophy Norris

Oliver Wyman

ESET

Items referenced in this episode:

The Authority Gap, Mary Ann Seighart