Jacqueline de Rojas Quotes
born 1962 United Kingdom
Jacqueline de Rojas CBE (born Jacqueline Yu 11 October 1962 is a British businesswoman who works in technology.
- United Kingdom
- Businesswomen
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For me it’s important to know what failure looks like, after all, success is always on the other side of fear.
I guess with that in mind, from a leadership perspective, the motivation levels of the team and the happiness of the end customer.
Companies are more successful and profitable if they have diversity at the heart of their businesses.
Give yourself the space to be the person you want to be versus the person everyone else wants you to be.
You are a role model whether you choose to be or not, your behaviours are copied, good or bad.
The tone is set by the board, by the C-suite and by everyone cascading it downwards.
Our world has changed fundamentally, and it has changed overnight.
It’s never too late to start the diversity and inclusion journey.
I believe that the UK can sustain its position as a magnet for digital investment and for tech talent.
I believe that the greatest threat to diversity is the belief that someone else will fix it.
Let’s inspire kids in to digital, have more young women joining and staying in the tech sector & encourage diversity in the boardroom.
It’s really important that we get that commitment from the top.
I was running a very big team; hundreds of people and hundreds of thousands of dollars, actually millions, hundred millions of dollars.
Startups are uniquely positioned to embrace diversity and I think that’s because they are full of ideas, they have a mindset which is very entrepreneurial and their ideas can change the world.
So I believe that diversity is the only way that you can really create competitive advantage.
So role modelling for diversity comes from the top.
It was promotion for a country manager position.
My ambition is for this country to seize its position as a digital nation of significance by leveraging its technology leadership position and growing a diverse and inclusive skills base.
I have to say, looking back over my shoulder the person they did choose did not last very long.
Some years later, many years later, I went back in a very big leadership position because they came looking for me.