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Thank you to Nami Patel from The Walt Disney Company for giving your time this morning to share your career pathway with children from the UK's Tata Consultancy Services parent network. Your kindness will have helped our young audience contemplate things that will be weighing on their mind, like what they might do after they finish their education and enter the world of work. Conversations like these are brilliant because they facilitate career conversations between parents and children over the summer. However difficult they may be to start, parents play a vital role in career conversations, which can help the next generation be confident that they will find their way. The children (and I!) were fascinated to hear how you grew up with your three sisters in Birmingham before you transitioned to study Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) to your first role as a manager at Deloitte for five years, then moved onto finance at Fox Corporation for five years, to now where you lead Strategy and Business Development at Walt Disney, which you do full time, alongside being a Trustee at The Social Mobility Foundation. Your secrets were 1) to use your analytical skills and 2) to allow your curiosity to guide you to where you should be and 3) To expand your roles by putting your hand up so that they suited you better. Your advice was to work hard, focus on learning, and be kind. Wise words, indeed. My favourite quote was the one you gave from Dr. Seuss: "You have brains in your head, You have feet in your shoes, You can steer yourself in any direction you choose". F4S is proud to make it as easy to prompt career conversations like this as ordering pizza online. If you are a parent and want to start a career conversation with your child, why not arrange for someone like Nami to have a virtual chat next week? It really is as easy as placing an order online for a pizza, but we'd argue the delivery of career insights from our volunteers has better consequences that may even last a lifetime rather than just to the next meal… Choose your ingredients for your next career conversation now —> click here! https://lnkd.in/e83ehhXz #careersinSTEM #mentoring #careersinmaths Sherry Coutu CBE. |. Priyanka Sethi. | Ved Sen