S01 E04 | Lisa Emery, CIO, Royal Marsden NHS FT - The Person Behind the Job Title The PNE Podcast

Jack talks to Lisa Emery, CIO at Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the London CIO Council. Lisa takes us from her first job filling jam doughnuts in a bakers (she's been put off doughnuts for life) through to following in her mum's footsteps as a biomedical scientist and then to CIO of an NHS Trust.

She discusses her journey through the healthcare sector, her approach to leadership and how her outlook as been shaped by leaders who have inspired her throughout her career. Lisa discusses her fierce passion for ensuring women get opportunities in STEM careers as well as leadership ones - harking back to her O Level days when her parents had to visit the school to assure teachers she would succeed in taking all three sciences "even though she was a girl".

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