Emma Grede

And so I think that I am.

I don't know.

I try to be very just who I am and I make no apologies for it.

I think everybody always knew that I was very ambitious.

And I have been, I think, working away for the last 25 years to make that a more attractive term for women because it isn't used in the same way for women as it's used for men.

And I'd kind of like to change that a little bit.

She's ambitious.

That is such a good question because all of us, we come with so much baggage, right?

And when you're a mum of four, like my mornings are so intense, you know, by 8am I have trained, I've probably done one kid's hair, I've had half a breakfast, I've got, you know, like so much going on around me and I get in the car, I'm on a call and I walk in the office and it's like, you know, the first like meeting and

I think the thing that I've really learned to do is to bring myself like into any situation.

Like I'm not a multitasker.

Like I do the thing that's in front of me and I give it everything.

Like I am big on eye contact.

If you pick up your phone in the middle of a meeting with me, like it's over, leave.

It's just over.

I need like undivided attention.

But in return, I give undivided attention.

I'm a real like in the room person.

And that is, by the way, a superpower in business, because when you give undivided attention to matters, they get solved quickly.

Like I'm not going to have 27 emails.