The Focus Bee Show (56) Leadership Revealed: Essential Principles for all Leaders with Amnah Ajmal
Amnah Ajmal is one of the top 100 women in the world in FinTech. Her passion, dedication and perseverance shine through as we discuss top leadership principles.
In this episode, we cover:
- International leadership: working in multiple countries
- Essential principles that differentiate leaders
- Building trust!
And so much more!
ABOUT Amnah Ajmal
Amnah Ajmal is the Executive Vice President, Market Development, MEA for Mastercard. In this role, she is responsible for acceptance, acquiring, merchants, digital partnerships, strategy and M&A for the region. Prior to this role, she led the North America product organization, based out of the US, responsible for the development and management of consumer and small business payment solutions, including credit, debit, prepaid, small business and acceptance solutions, with a focus on creating sustainable competitive differentiation for Mastercard and its customers.
Amnah joined Mastercard in 2015 as Head of Products for Middle East & Africa where she focused on driving innovation across consumer and commercial payments based on technology, partnerships and delivering digitally integrated consumer experiences.
Prior to joining Mastercard she was heading the consumer bank franchise for Standard Chartered Malaysia responsible for end-end P&L. She was also responsible for retail banking strategy for Indonesia, Malaysia & Taiwan in a global role based out of Singapore. Prior to Standard Chartered, Amnah worked at Citigroup in UAE, Egypt, UK and Poland. She held a number of positions at Citigroup including Asset Business Head for Poland responsible for a full range of consumer asset products, innovation and distribution including credit cards, co-brands, personal loans and mortgages.
She was honoured to be listed as the top 100 women in Fintech, across the globe, for 2019 by Lattice80 and recognized as the top 25 women leaders in financial technology by the Financial Technology Report US for 2019 & 2020. She was recently recognized as the top 100 woman in fintech, across the globe, for 2021 by IBM & Fintech magazine. She also holds the honour of being in America’s top 10 women in Fintech by the Fintech Magazine for 2020.
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ABOUT Katie Stoddart:
Katie Stoddart is an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie started her career as a hydrographic engineer working at sea and she now supports founders and executives to thrive in their life & business.
As a keynote speaker, Katie frequently speaks at summits, conferences & podcasts. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews thought leaders, speakers and authors.
Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through 1-1 coaching & corporate workshops on Focus, Leadership & Performance.
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