Apr 12, 2023
For regular listeners of The Business of Healthcare podcast, Monique Carayol needs no introduction. She is my friend, ally, sounding board, informal coach; my champion; my go-to person when I need support or advice and an absolute inspiration.
As well as being a key influence on me professionally (and personally), Monique is an experienced leadership coach, consultant, ex-NHS director and now MD of Your New Avenue. She’s an award-winning strategist and change agent and started her NHS career as a PA, navigating her way to a high profile board executive director of strategy and transformation role.
In 2022, Monique co-founded Bravery in the Boardroom; a movement which focuses on increasing diversity in senior leadership, to ensure that boardrooms are more representative of the communities and staff they serve. The movement has hosted a series of roundtable discussions and Q&As to help grow and sustain diverse talent at executive level across the NHS and will be launching a podcast and platform in Spring 2023.
In this podcast, Monique and I cover the following key topics:
- The development of our own relationship as fellow female business leaders and entrepreneurs
- The importance of good communication and drawing on advice from those who know you best
- Making the move to a life beyond PAYE and the traditional 9 to 5
- Growing your network and your business - and learning when you are most effective as a leader (and when you’re not!)
- Drawing on personal strengths to realise success; “Be Yourself, Back Yourself and Make It Happen”
- Driving change, tackling inequality and discrimination, challenging ourselves (and others) via the Bravery in the Boardroom webinar series and development of the soon to be launched Bravery in the Boardroom podcast
If you’ve also been inspired by Monique and would like to get in touch, her key contact points are here:
You can find out more about Bravery in the Boardroom, and access all of the resources available, via any of your favourite channels:
I’m Tara Humphrey and I’m the founder of THC Primary Care, a leading healthcare consultancy. I provide project and network management to Primary Care Networks and consulting support to clinical leads. To date, I’ve worked with 11 Training Hubs and supported over 80 Primary Care Networks and 3 GP Federations. I understand and appreciate the complexity of healthcare and what it takes to deliver projects across multiple practices.
I have over 20 years of project management and business development experience across the private and public sector and have an MBA in Leadership and Management in Healthcare. I’m also published in the London Journal of Primary Care and the author of over 250 blogs.
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