Monique Carayol

Monique gives an honest account of her start in life born to teenage parents, starting work at 15 and explains clearly and honestly how she navigated her NHS career from PA to the boardroom – becoming the youngest and only black director on the board. She shares practical insights of how she made it happen – taking opportunities, stepping outside of my comfort zone, determination and how she led bravely and built dynamic, diverse teams, supporting others to be brave, be themselves and thrive. She talks about the next phase of her career; leaving her 20 year corporate career to fulfil her purpose of building a movement of brave leaders and what that means in practice. Audiences will feel inspired and energised to take ownership and overcome their fears in progressing their careers. They’ll also be guided with practical advice on personal and leadership development and a takeaway action to help them start taking those next steps to help make it happen.

Drawing on her own experience as a board level executive including 12 months as lead COVID19 recovery director for her healthcare organisation, Monique gives an honest account of how to be a brave and compassionate leader in challenging times through her clear examples of how she put this into practice, and her engaging and supportive style of conversation with the audience.
She encourages and inspires audiences to feel confident and supported by her to back themselves and start putting brave leadership into action – for leaders at all levels.

Drawing on her experience of working as a board level executive and leading authentically when she was the youngest and only black board member, Monique shares how she built dynamic, diverse teams and led large, complex change programmes collaboratively. She provides practical insights to guide the audience on how to lead authentically, focus on their strengths and create safe spaces and environments at work that enables and empowers others to do the same.
Monique gives a clear call to action to ‘be yourself, back yourself & make it happen’ and honestly speaks with the audience about dealing with fears relating to this and how to prepare for the courageous conversations that may need to happen when leading bravely.