Better Under Pressure #45 - Tendai Wileman - Using Pressure to Evolve
Today I’m talking to Tendai Wileman, Chief of Staff and Director of Organisational Change at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust. Tendai grew up in Zimbabwe and went to university in South Africa, before completing an MBA at Warwick Business School. Over two decades, Tendai has held various corporate and operational roles in healthcare, and has spent the last 10 years leading large-scale change within and across functional and organisational boundaries.
She is a sponsor of the LGBT+ network at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ and is passionate about diversity and inclusion, believing strongly that ‘that which unites us all, is greater than that which separates us’.
In our conversation, Tendai shares…
- Her desire to keep learning and saying ‘Yes’ to the Discomfort Zone
- Finding the balance between the external and the internal
- And the questions she asks her NHS team when they are all under pressure