Three senior directors discuss how having a sponsor propelled their careers and made them take risks.
Alison Mirams cheerily refers to herself as the poster child for sponsorship in the workplace.
Years later, Mirams was offered a job as chief executive, to build Roberts Co from scratch. The construction executive turned it down, thinking she did not have the pulling power to lure talented people to work with her on the venture.Her husband told her she had “rocks in her head” if she turned the role down, and a friend said: “‘I’ll ask you one question. If you don’t do this, and it’s a screaming success, will you regret it? Because if your answer is yes, you’ve got to resign and do it.
“My first words to him were: ‘No way. That is not me.’ He said: ‘Yes, you can do it’,” says Stewart, who has been chief of Aware Super since late 2018 and is also a former CEO of insurer MetLife in Australia.She took the role and said the international experience she gained was invaluable. “He was an amazing champion for women and improving the diversity in the bank at the senior ranks. He paid a lot of attention to culture,” Watkins recalls.
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