S2 E7: Embracing Your Uniqueness with Jenny Chong
As a female working in an industry filled with men, you don’t necessarily have to fit in or blend into the crowd. This does not have to be a bad thing. You can turn it around and make it into something positive.
In this episode, I’m joined by Jenny Chong. Jenny is a mother, mentor, and a female leader. She is the Head of Innovation for the FinTech startup KogoPAY. I wanted to talk to Jenny because there’s a phenomenally small number of females working in the technology and investment banking space.
There were so many inspiring nuggets in this conversation. I personally would love to rewind it and take careful notes!
We talk about how her experiences in her formative years taught her to welcome change and develop a sense of adventure, why you need to nurture confidence in your own skills, life as a female minority of color, and much more.
Episode highlights:
- How she wanted to be a pilot and an archaeologist as a kid
- Racial discrimination she experienced as a child
- Being conscious of her British Singaporean accent
- How she moves to different roles to reinvent herself
- Adversity and how it fosters resilience
- The manager’s role of identifying the strengths of their people
- The importance of bringing your authentic self to work
- Three core principles employees should follow
- How having kids taught her patience and anger management
- Why the younger generation of women should adopt STEM more
- How women aren’t comfortable self-promoting
- Dealing with imposter syndrome as a successful woman
- Why women feel more imposter syndrome than men
- The biggest hurdles of her life and work
- Why it’s never too late to pivot in your career choice
- Advice she would give a woman who wants to work in her field
About the guest:
Jenny Chong is the Head Of Innovation for the company KogoPAY since 2019.
She is also a mentor at the Imperial Venture Mentoring Service in the UK, the Associate Non-Executive Director for Medway NHS Foundation Trust, and Managing Partner at Knightingale Consulting.
Prior to this, she worked at Credit Suisse for more than 20 years serving in several leadership positions such as Director of the Global Head of Electronic Communications Surveillance, Vice President of the Global Head of Program Management - Big Data, AI and Semantic Technology, and etc.
She acquired her Bachelors in Business Mathematics and Statistics and Masters in Information Systems Development in The London School of Economics and Political Science.
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