To celebrate Women in Cyber Security Awareness Month, we’re revisiting Steve Durbin’s 2021 conversation with Dame Inga Beale, former CEO of Lloyd’s of London – a discussion that has lost none of its relevance.
Together, they discuss the role that ‘listening’ played when she became the first female CEO in Lloyd’s more than 300-year history. The courage of simplicity in communication remains an effective style of leadership built on trust, and career advice for both board members and security professionals who are relatively new to the industry.
So the art of communication gets you a long way. And often people think complexity will make them look good. So they’ll build a complex message…Whereas actually, it’s the simplification of that message…
Dame Inga Beale
Inga is a businesswoman and the former CEO of Lloyd’s of London, the first woman to be promoted to this position in over three centuries of the company’s history. She is known for leading the global insurance and reinsurance market for five years, embedding modernisation and cultural change during her tenure. Throughout her career, Inga has been a strong proponent of inclusion and equality in the workplace and talks from experience about how to build an environment where people from all walks of life feel valued and can thrive at work.
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