E019 Amali de Alwis MBE on preparation, reflection and respect

My guest is Amali de Alwis.  Amali is responsible for Microsoft’s strategic and commercial direction across Microsoft’s startup and scale-up activities in the UK. Prior to this she was CEO of Code First: Girls - a multi award-winning training company focused on increasing diversity in tech.

“It’s never a fait-accomplis… you never get a badge saying you’ve reached your maximum level of good communication. Different things are needed at different times, you need to wear different hats for different conversations… just making sure you give yourself that time to self-reflect when things either do go well or they don’t go well, what are the kinds of things that could have happened differently.”

She was a founding member at Tech Talent Charter, was named the ‘Most Influential Women in UK Technology’ and was awarded an MBE in 2019 for services to diversity and training in the technology industry. She is a board Member at the Raspberry PI Foundation, Ada, National College for Digital Skills; and D&I Board at the Institute of Coding.

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