Leadership: Advice to your younger self
This month we were back with our annual leadership panel; Amy Shore, a senior UX consultant at Foolproof, chaired the discussion with the three influential leaders (Tarnjit Tiyur, Samantha Kingston and Christine Hoover Lanoy)
Our panelists have come from different backgrounds, experiences, education, and jobs. Amy asked them about the mistakes they have made along the way and how it has made them better leaders. They also discussed how to overcome past and current challenges to become better leaders.
To end the main discussion with the panelists Amy asked them what advice they would give to their younger selves and the responses were pertinent. They reminded the audience that personal development is just as important as professional development.
📷 Check out the photos from the night.
Panellists
Tarnjit Tiyur
User Experience Specialist | Manager Rolls-Royce
Tarnjit is a UX Specialist providing capability across several services. She manages UX practices and resources enabling increased self-sufficiency within the delivery teams. Tarnjit delivers results by ensuring the right customer problem is solved and turns complexity into clarity. She likes to keep things fun and enjoyable along the way. Tarnjit previously worked as a Product Owner and Senior Business Analyst. She has experience in the aerospace, automotive, gas utility, and railway industries. Tarnjit has an MSc in Records Management and BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature. In her spare time, she enjoys salsa dancing, writing fiction, the outdoors, and painting abstract art when she can.
Samantha Kingston
Client Director | Virtual Umbrella
Samantha is the award-winning client director at Virtual Umbrella. Virtual Umbrella is a marketing and PR agency specialising in virtual reality. Samantha fell into the VR industry by accident but has spent her time in the industry building up her own company and working with the VR industry in the UK, Europe, and US. Samantha is an advocate for Women in tech and VR and she is often found moderating panels on equality in the workplace. In 2016, she won the regional and national ‘New Business’ award at Venus Awards, highlighted as one of MCV 30 under 30 and one of the rising stars of BIMA100 2016. She has been featured in a range of publications including Forbes, BBC, The Guardian and more.
Christine Hoover Lanoy
Senior Director User Experience | Ticketmaster
Christine currently heads up Ticketmaster International Design, where she sets the strategic and tactical vision for UX design, marketing design, and branding for 20+ enterprise-scale, consumer and client-facing products with 90M+ unique users across EMEA. She helps organizations build high-performing products and teams at a global scale that consistently exceed business goals and delight users alike. As a committed design educator, critic and mentor, she is dedicated to bringing up the next generation of design leaders and thinkers. She has taught at, Parsons The New School for Design in New York, Créapole, Ecole superieure des Art appliques in Paris, sat on design juries around the world, and is actively involved with UXPA and other technology leadership and mentoring programs throughout London.
Thanks
We would like to say massive thank you to Foolproof’s Senior UX Consultant Amy Shore for chairing the panel. We’d also like to thank Foolproof for providing both venue, food and drink.
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Marwa Khalil is a London based UX and UI designer who has had the chance to work with some great London startups and SaaS companies. She is a regular contributor and editor for the LTUX London blog. Stay up to date with her on Medium, Twitter and Instagram.
