The Company Road Podcast E28 Sarah Wilkin: Perseverance through crisis: Transforming adversity into opportunity
“One thing led to another and some things came up and actually it just broke really quickly and was quite a shock. It was quite disruptive and it was one of these situations where you think, okay, what has just happened?”
Sarah Wilkin
- Transforming personal adversity to professional opportunity: Sarah shares her journey overcoming a major and very sudden struggle in her personal life… and how it led her to greater success
- Addressing gender bias: How to challenge the issue of gender bias within male-dominated industries with language and representation
- Resilience in the face of change: Unlocking and developing resilience to stay firm and excel within the modern disruptive and ever-changing working landscape
- Connectivity in remote work: Strategies for staying motivated, connected and taking advantage of remote working
- The power of radical honesty: How being honest, and radically so, can unlock powerful relationships and working opportunities
Key Links
Nissan LEAF: https://www.nissan.com.au/vehicles/browse-range/leaf.html
Fly Green Alliance: https://flygreenalliance.org/
Booking Cares https://www.sustainability.booking.com/about
Alan Partridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Partridge
Circular Economy https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/topics/circular-economy-introduction/overview
Kundalini https://www.healthline.com/health/kundalini-meditation
Lainey Molnar https://www.instagram.com/lainey.molnar/?hl=en
About our guest
Sarah Wilkin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahwilkin/) is Founder & CEO of Fly Green Alliance, and was a Booking.com grantee in 2018 when she gained a sustainable travel grant to work on the R&D of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) which was a milestone for SAF awareness, being the first time the tech had been given attention outside of the aviation industry.
She went on to pioneer the tech and is globally recognised as an expert, thought leader and now speaks on panels such as at The Economist, S&P Global and is quoted in BBC and other publications.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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