Leila Smith is CEO of the Aurora Foundation, who has seen the absolute power of mentoring and role modelling first hand.
She describes some key examples in this episode, noting how it can change entire lives and career trajectories.
And she's experienced such change first hand, having taken part in an International Study Tour with Aurora, in which Indigenous university students are awarded scholarships to attend 6 of the 10 best global universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and Stanford.
She met Indigenous scholars who reshaped everything she had been socialised to know about education. “When you see Aboriginal people before you who have walked that path, it’s so powerful”, she says, adding “you got to be extremely proud and celebrate who you were as an Aboriginal person but also be academic.”
Leila describes all of this and so much more in the latest episode of The Leadership Lessons, our podcast on how to lead for the critical decade ahead, made possible thanks to the support of Salesforce.
The Leadership Lessons is produced by Agenda Media, the publisher of Women's Agenda. You can check out our second podcast, The Women's Agenda Podcast.
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