This week on the Lady Leadership I had the pleasure of interviewing Felicity Furey is an award winning Business Leader, Engineer, Entrepreneur and Aspiring Aviator. Felicity is the founder of the Professional Leaders Institute. Felicity was named by AFR Boss as Young Executive of The Year and one the 100 Women of Influence by age 26, and has led multi-million dollar projects across Australia. Felicity now mentors high-performing teams and equips emerging leaders with the skills they need to make an impact and drive meaningful change.
To kick off this chat Felicity and I talked about Felicity’s career in Engineering - why she chose Engineering and how she then evolved her career to move into Leadership. Whilst Felicity was working in Engineering she noticed that there were not many women in Engineering and she started a not for profit to get more girls and more women into Engineering. Through this journey she raised over a million dollars from corporates and then stepped into a leadership role to run this business. This experience exposed Felicity to business through this endeavour and encourage more women into leadership.
Felicity created the Professional Leaders institute to help leaders fast track their careers and move into leadership roles. Felicity helps aspiring or emerging leaders who are moving into leadership. Felicity learnt through creating the non for profit business that she had room to fail and as such they emulate this experience.
We talked about the benefit to business of diverse leadership and also intergenerational leadership plus empowering teams.
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About me: My name is Samantha McIntyre and after 30 years in business and technology - from starting out on the helpdesk to the C suite, being on Executive boards, and being a mother and entrepreneur! I am passionate about helping women in their careers and business. What I have enjoyed the most in my roles is helping those around me succeed - particularly women! I have lead technology teams for some of the biggest businesses and brands in Australia and the world such as Tesco, Loreal, Coles, Woolworths, and Sportsgirl. So if you're looking for someone who knows what it is like to be a woman in business and technology plus being a mother and an entrepreneur then you've come to the right place. Contact: Website: https://www.lady-leadership.com/ LinkedIn: Samantha McIntyre Twitter: sjmcintyre1 Facebook: @Samantha McIntyre Instagram: @lady.leadership.