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SPOTLIGHT NOV/DEC 2015 | 37 Tell us a little bit about your role: I have two lives in HPE, you could say. One of them is as founder and chair of Elevate, a women’s networking group, where our goal is to create a community, offer professional training opportunities for women and ultimately join forces with like-minded colleagues. It’s driven from the ground up and run voluntarily by a team of amazingly talented and diverse people who believe in the vision. My other HPE life is being the comms lead for our biggest customer, CBA. It is definitely not static nor does it fit a traditional job description. I’m happy that I get freedom to introduce creative ideas and new initiatives to the business that help others engage and work more collaboratively. My two combined passions are words and the impact those words can have on people. My days are diverse and that’s what I love the most. If I were Prime Minister of Australia for a day, I’d … Overhaul the school curriculum and introduce more creative, personal-development teachings like compassion and mindfulness, so that our children can learn these vital life skills earlier rather than later. I would need more than a day for that one! Elevate and empower What one trait has helped you most in your work? Backing and believing in yourself, then fostering and nurturing that belief to pass on to others. I needed to back myself when I wanted to launch Elevate so that I didn’t quit and crumble at the first ‘no’. It helped knowing I had others on board as I knew I couldn’t do it alone, though it was sheer belief that got me to a ‘yes’. What is the one trait that has hindered you most in your work? Not being able to say ‘no’. There comes a time when you realise you can’t be everything to everyone. I know now that my time is best served understanding where my strengths are and using those strengths to add real value and more impact to the business, rather than saying ‘yes’ to everyone and then spreading myself too thin. What is the hardest lesson you’ve learnt and how did you learn it? Accept failure for what it is. I’ve failed and made errors in judgement many times, Founder of women’s group Elevate and communications lead for a major account, Helen Lambert is passionate about creating opportunities. and looking back it’s made me realise I’m as imperfect as anyone else. When we can embrace our failures and see them as growth then we consciously accept we are all imperfect. What’s one golden piece of advice you could offer other women in business? Share and talk about your ideas. A favourite quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: “Great minds discuss ideas, good minds discuss events, and average minds discuss people.” When you can share an idea and then get to create great from that idea with the help of others, that’s the most empowering, humbling and wonderful thing. What are you most pumped about right now? Next year we will be introducing Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In Circles and I’m excited that our more seasoned female leaders can mentor and share their knowledge. Elevate is now running across our South Pacific offices and we’re excited about partnering with external diversity and inclusion groups next year. If you’re a businesswoman who would like to contribute to the Elevate program from a keynote perspective or imparting wisdom, I would love to hear from you. What makes you happy? My two sons, Murray and Brendon, are the loves of my life and their humour and their take on the world constantly inspire me. Portraiture drawing – I started an amateur course this year, and it’s a great thing to do with a glass of wine and some music! Learning and personal growth – anything that gets my mind thinking, seeking and curious makes me happy. Describe yourself in five words. Optimistic, realistic, compassionate, curious, truth seeker. Quick questions Last book I read: Journey of Souls by Michael Newton. Entrepreneur icon: Seth Godin. Last person I followed on social media and why: Ma Church – loved his article on real books as opposed to the Kindle variety! Top of my to-do list: Get my finances sorted. Quote I love: “It’s not the years in your life but the life in your years.” Adlai Stevenson Helen Lambert, 51 position Founder of HPE women’s group Elevate and communications lead company Hewle Packard Enterprise (HPE), NSW website hpe.com member details
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SPOTLIGHT
NOV/DEC 2015 | 37
Tell us a little bit about your role: I have two lives in HPE, you could say. One of them is as founder and chair of Elevate, a women’s networking group, where our goal is to create a community, offer professional training opportunities for women and ultimately join forces with like-minded colleagues. It’s driven from the ground up and run voluntarily by a team of amazingly talented and diverse people who believe in the vision.
My other HPE life is being the comms lead for our biggest customer, CBA. It is definitely not static nor does it fit a traditional job description. I’m happy that I get freedom to introduce creative ideas and new initiatives to the business that help others engage and work more collaboratively. My two combined passions are words and the impact those words can have on people. My days are diverse and that’s what I love the most. If I were Prime Minister of Australia for a day, I’d … Overhaul the school curriculum and introduce more creative, personal-development teachings like compassion and mindfulness, so that our children can learn these vital life skills earlier rather than later. I would need more than a day for that one!
Elevate and empower
What one trait has helped you most in your work? Backing and believing in yourself, then fostering and nurturing that belief to pass on to others. I needed to back myself when I wanted to launch Elevate so that I didn’t quit and crumble at the first ‘no’. It helped knowing I had others on board as I knew I couldn’t do it alone, though it was sheer belief that got me to a ‘yes’.
What is the one trait that has hindered you most in your work? Not being able to say ‘no’. There comes a time when you realise you can’t be everything to everyone. I know now that my time is best served understanding where my strengths are and using those strengths to add real value and more impact to the business, rather than saying ‘yes’ to everyone and then spreading myself too thin.
What is the hardest lesson you’ve learnt and how did you learn it? Accept failure for what it is. I’ve failed and made errors in judgement many times,
Founder of women’s group Elevate and communications lead for a major account, Helen Lambert is passionate about creating opportunities.
and looking back it’s made me realise I’m as imperfect as anyone else. When we can embrace our failures and see them as growth then we consciously accept we are all imperfect. What’s one golden piece of advice you could offer other women in business? Share and talk about your ideas. A favourite quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: “Great minds discuss ideas, good minds discuss events, and average minds discuss people.” When you can share an idea and then get to create great from that idea with the help of others, that’s the most empowering, humbling and wonderful thing. What are you most pumped about right now? Next year we will be introducing Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In Circles and I’m excited that our more seasoned female leaders can mentor and share their knowledge. Elevate is now running across our South Pacific offices and we’re excited about partnering with external diversity and inclusion groups next year. If you’re a businesswoman who would like to contribute to the Elevate program from a keynote perspective or imparting wisdom, I would love to hear from you.
What makes you happy? My two sons, Murray and Brendon, are the loves of my life and their humour and their take on the world constantly inspire me. Portraiture drawing – I started an amateur course this year, and it’s a great thing to do with a glass of wine and some music! Learning and personal growth – anything that gets my mind thinking, seeking and curious makes me happy.
Describe yourself in five words. Optimistic, realistic, compassionate, curious, truth seeker.
Quick questionsLast book I read: Journey of
Souls by Michael Newton.Entrepreneur icon: Seth Godin.
Last person I followed on social media and why: Matt
Church – loved his article on real books as opposed to the Kindle
variety!Top of my to-do list: Get my
finances sorted.Quote I love: “It’s not the years in your life but the life in your years.”
Adlai Stevenson
Helen Lambert, 51position Founder of HPE women’s group Elevate and communications lead company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), NSWwebsite hpe.com
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