Hello everybody and welcome to this new episode of the MACE Podcast!
I'm so excited to bring this new episode entirely focused on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), Mentorship and Business Culture.
Our stop is United Kingdom with the special guest: Paula Moio.
Paula likes seeing herself as the "3L Lady" as she was born in Luanda (Angola), raised in Lisbon and adopted by London.
She is a self-made, future-focused professional, who truly embraces her passion, advocating for change of perceptions and recognition of the Admin Profession. She works tirelessly alongside a likeminded global network of professionals to raise the profile of the Admin Profession in today’s demanding market, and she's determined to break barriers.
She has worked for 15 years at BBC News/BBC World Service where she won the BBC News Award for her outstanding contribution to the company.
In 2016 she worked as a consultant in a professional training project for EA/PA in partnership with the prestigious Academy BAI in Luanda in the creation of a co-designed course for Admin Professionals. A partnership to foster a change of mindset to develop and amplify potential in raw talent and creating annual seminars for the last four years.
In order to promote and raise the profile of the profession in Angola, she's partnering with associations and institutions to bring seminars and conferences to grant the access to people that want to start the Admin Profession.
More recently she became the founder of Moyoeno Lusofonando a project that has its primary objective to train and empower professionals and let them excel in what they do.
My takeaways are:
- Be open, Be authentic and stay true to you first
- DEI needs "B": Belonging. We cannot be inclusive without belonging
- DEI starts with intentions and daily actions: it is about "Calling people in"
- Stereotypes belong to humans. It is up to humans breaking them.
- It is much bigger what makes us closer than what divides us. Differences are manageable
- There is no possibility without curiosity.
Which are your ones?
Stay tuned!
MM
