193. Dame Hayaatun Sillem: How to use early board roles to accelerate your exec career and set up a non-exec portfolio

Dame Hayaatun is the founder and CEO of Argentic Associates. Previously, she was CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. Listen to this episode to learn more about: How a non-exec role helped carve Dame Hayaatun’s path to CEO (01:35) How she landed her first non-exec role (11:22) How sitting on boards helped her improve in her day job (15:16) Two moments Dame Hayaatun felt like the board added the most value (18:52) Why asking for more information can create a bottleneck (26:09) Where non-execs cross the line with management (28:36) A 3-step framework for deciding what’s next: motivation, aspiration, consideration (35:22) ⚡The Lightning Round⚡(38:52) Host: Oliver Cummings Producer: Will Felton Editor: Penelope Coumau Music: Kate Mac Audio: Nick Kold Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.nurole.com/nurole-podcast-enter-the-boardroom