Chief Change Officer
#120 From Paris Glamour to Senegalese Impact: Fatou Sagna Sow’s Journey Through Meaningful Career Change
25 Dec 2024
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to our show, Chief Change Officer. I'm Vince Chan, your ambitious human host. Our show is a modernist community for change progressives in organizational and human transformation from around the world. Imagine this, you are in Paris, the city of lights, where you were born and raised.
Picture yourself as a highly skilled in-house counsel at one of the world's largest banking groups, overseeing a team of 50 and spearheading billion-dollar financial transactions. Life isn't just good. It's picture perfect. Now, what if I challenged you to leave it all behind?
What if I invited you to move with your whole family to Senegal, a vibrant country in West Africa, once a French colony, to start afresh? Would you take the leap? For many, the answer would be a no. But today's guest isn't just anyone.
Join me as I chat with Fatou Zeyna Sol, a remarkable individual I had the pleasure of studying together during our executive MBA classes in London and in Singapore with Chicago Booth. She has since moved from the well-established legal profession to economic development, technical advisory, and youth entrepreneurship in Senegal. In her own words, she aims not just to succeed, but to create magic.
What drives a person to embrace such profound change? How does a lawyer used to practicing set laws becoming a chief change officer, making her own laws of change for careers, for communities, and for societies? Fatou is going to tell her own story.
Hi, Vince. Thank you so much for having me. It's good to talk to you again. Thank you.
I'm so glad you agreed to come on board. Wow, it's been how many years? Last time I saw you in Singapore, is that right?
Well, last time I saw you, Vince, actually, it was in Singapore. It was in 2013, so indeed a long, long time ago. At this time, I was a financial lawyer at a bank in Paris. And I was also a municipality council of a small town in France, finishing my six-year terms as a municipality council. So a long, long time in it. As a background, as you know, I'm a financial lawyer. I studied law.
I always wanted to study law because law is the way you manage people to live together in a city. And I always wanted to know the rules and be able to be part of the law makers and policy makers. I studied law, of course, but I really wanted to be an economic lawyer. So I studied business law. I took a finance course as well. I also studied IT.
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