Bold Moves by Pippa Hallas

Author:Pippa Hallas
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780730366256
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2018-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

Embracing change

So many women around me suffer from that all-too-familiar feeling of self-doubt and lack of confidence and I find myself questioning how more women could own their power, their potential. It’s certainly normal — I would even say common — to feel self-doubt. I liken it to self-sabotage: in love, health and when going for opportunities and dreams. Self-doubt can haunt you for years until you get to the ‘enough’ stage — until that day when you wake up and you’ve had enough of feeling that way. Reaching the ‘enough’ stage becomes a crucial part in your development. It forces change, and it forces you to change. One of my all-time heroes, Sir Richard Branson, once said, ‘We can all create our own luck by taking the necessary risks to open the door to change’. As I said earlier, I’ve found the best way to overcome a lack of confidence is to collaborate on a project with someone else.

It really is about the journey. I didn’t always perceive myself as the world did. I felt like I didn’t own the title of CEO (titles don’t mean much to me). I was Ella’s niece and a third-generation CEO in the family business. I had to prove myself not only in everyone else’s mind but especially in my own. I didn’t have a job description and I certainly didn’t have a rule book. I remember sitting at my desk in the first few weeks of becoming CEO and thinking, ‘What now? What am I supposed to be doing? What does success look like? And how do I get there?’ The thing about being a CEO is that you’re supposed to know everything, right? I decided to just work hard. I learned every aspect of the business. I learned it at 30 000 feet and at 3 feet. I believe that set me up to succeed today. I got in the detail, I got my hands dirty and I would never ask someone to do something that I wasn’t willing to do myself. Today, I don’t need to be in the office all the time. Technology allows you to work from anywhere at any time, which is fantastic for mums. I work at all hours from all places around the kids. As long as the outcomes are achieved, I’m not attached to how people, including myself, achieve them.

I remember, in my early days of being a CEO, being invited to charity events in Sydney. I was surrounded by CEOs from many well-known Australian companies. The difference between me and them was that I was, on average, 20 years younger than everyone else, and that I was female. I viewed it as a social experiment after a while and had fun with it. I saw the humour in it. I certainly became okay with being the odd one out. But I rocked up time and time again, and like everything, once you’re comfortable with who you are, others become comfortable with you too. You have to fake it until you make it.

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