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About You
The essential details for your profile.
What is your current role, and when did you take it up? Please describe your organization and your mandate there.
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Where are you based today, and which places do you call home?
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In three sentences, how would you describe what you do to someone outside your industry?
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Which three words best describe you, and why?
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Early Life and Family
The roots of your story.
Where did you grow up, and what was your childhood like?
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Who were the most important influences in your early life, and what did they teach you?
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What values were you raised with, and which of them still guide you today?
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What did you dream of becoming as a child, and how does that compare with what you do now?
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Is there a moment from your early years that shaped the person you became?
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Education and Learning
How your education prepared you.
Where did you study, what did you study, and why did you choose that path?
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Which teacher, course or experience during your studies changed how you saw the world?
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Which degrees, professional qualifications, certifications or executive programmes have you completed? Please list the institution and year for each.
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What has formal education given you that experience alone could not?
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Career Journey and Milestones
Your path, in order and in your own words.
How did your career begin? What was your first job, and what did it teach you?
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Which roles, promotions or projects mark the key turning points of your career? Please give the year for each.
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Which career transition was the hardest, and what made it possible?
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Tell us about a setback or failure and what it taught you.
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What is a decision you made that others questioned, and how did it turn out?
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Are there awards, board seats, advisory roles or publications we should include? Please share links or documents.
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Leadership and Impact
The defining moments and the difference you have made.
What is the defining moment of your career so far, the one where you realized you were leading and not only managing?
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How would you describe your leadership philosophy in one sentence?
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How do you build trust with a new team or with skeptical stakeholders?
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What impact are you proudest of, and how was it measured (people, revenue, systems, institutions)?
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What would people who have worked with you say is your leadership signature?
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How do you make difficult decisions under pressure?
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Work, Innovation and Contribution
Concrete examples of your work and its results.
Can you share an example, with details you are able to disclose, of a strategy or initiative you led and the result it delivered?
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How has your expertise changed a business decision or protected an organization?
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How do you balance innovation with risk and resilience?
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How does your work contribute to your community, your country or the wider continent?
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Have you founded, advised, financed or mentored any businesses or causes? May we mention them?
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Mentors, Sponsors and Influences
The people and ideas behind your growth.
Who are the people who have most shaped your career, and how did each one influence you?
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Who sponsored you, not just mentored you, and what did that sponsorship look like in practice?
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Whom do you mentor or sponsor today, and what do you hope they gain from you?
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Is there a book, principle or saying that guides how you live and lead?
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Barriers, Resilience and Identity
The challenges you have faced and how you overcame them.
What barriers have you faced in your career, whether related to gender, age, background or anything else, and how did you navigate them?
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Have there been times you felt you did not belong in a room? How did you respond?
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What should organizations change first to open leadership to more women and under-represented talent?
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How do you recover from difficult periods and keep going?
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Personal Life and Wellbeing
The person behind the title. Share only what you are comfortable with.
What does a typical day or week look like for you?
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How do you balance work, family and personal life?
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What do you enjoy outside work, for example hobbies, interests, faith or causes you support?
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How do you look after your physical and mental wellbeing?
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What are you most grateful for right now?
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What would people be surprised to learn about you?
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Growth and Development
How you keep learning and evolving.
How did you move from specialist to senior leader? Which skills did you have to build deliberately?
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How do you plan your own development from year to year?
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What are you learning or working to improve right now?
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What is the most valuable piece of feedback you have received, and how did it change you?
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Goals and the Future
Your ambitions and your outlook for the years ahead.
What vision drives your work today? What do you want to have built in ten years?
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What are your goals for the next one to three years, professionally and personally?
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Which forces will most shape your industry and region over the next decade, and which are underestimated?
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Looking ahead to 2035, what are your hopes for women executives in Africa, and what could hold progress back?
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What legacy do you want to leave, and how would you like to be remembered?
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Lessons and Advice
Wisdom for readers and the next generation.
What do you know now that you wish you had known in your first five years of work?
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What is the biggest mistake you see ambitious young professionals make?
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What one piece of advice would you give a young woman entering your field today?
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What does excellence mean to you?
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Is there anything we have not asked that you would like readers to know?
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In their words
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Philip James