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What kinds of programs are underway at GroupM to empower employees to do their best work?
We look at the employee experience holistically and believe employees do their best work when they’re happy, healthy, respected, included, and supported in their learning journey. There’s no one magic bullet for empowering employees.

Our GroupM University and Launch Pad programs have been very successful in helping our people succeed now and prepare for the next step in their careers. We offer programs that support career pivots, leadership development, and lots more. WPP Open and our internal AI training are also available to all employees, helping them harness and make the most of AI tools that we feel will continue to shape the future of our industry and the contours of people’s job responsibilities.

That said, training is only one part of the whole. Through supportive health & wellness benefits, inclusive practices, meaningful performance reviews, and events & programs that inspire, celebrate, and educate our employees, we provide a full set of tools for our people to show up at their best.

What is the most important piece of advice you have for managers, to achieve a productive work environment?
Something simple: being present. I think actively engaging helps us be more productive and also helps us better identify when we’re distracted or drifting into behaviors that don’t serve us.

It’s easy to passively default or drift into unproductive patterns, even when we intuitively understand those things are bad for our output and happiness. When I stay present, I can assess whether things are valuable, where there’s room for improvement, and where I can better support myself and others. I listen better, I learn more deeply, and I think I have a better experience overall.

How has being a mother impacted your work?
Motherhood shapes my work in visible and invisible ways. My daughters are an enormous part of my life, and I work hard not just for GroupM, but to create a better future for when they enter the workforce. I’d like to think my drive to do right by them makes me tenacious, but patient. My daughters also give me perspective. They’re the best critics and cheerleaders I could ask for. I love being a mother and seeing other mothers have successful careers, but there’s more work to be done around normalizing motherhood and caregiving instead of treating it like a sensitivity or liability.

The explicit or implied priorities around women having and raising children can sometimes mean decisions are made for me based on assumptions. It was worse when I was just starting out; women of a certain life stage were expected to care more about starting a family. A lot has changed since then, but there are still moments that are frustrating or hurtful. Having kids does change the calculus around many of my decisions, but not all. Discrimination is called out more explicitly now, but it still exists in intrusive thoughts, insensitive private conversations, and presumptive ways of thinking.

While there’s still work to be done, I’m grateful for how much things have changed, and I have deep respect for those who paved the way to where we are today. I look forward to seeing how much more we can accomplish, and it’s an enormous privilege to use my role at GroupM to inspire awareness, influence change, and create a better future for everyone.

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