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Enter the Boardroom

Enter the Boardroom

193. Dame Hayaatun Sillem: How to use early board roles to accelerate your exec career and set up a non-exec portfolio

Sep 30, 2026 · 45m

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Dame Hayaatun is the founder and CEO of Argentic Associates. Previously, she was CEO of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Foundation. Listen to this episode to learn more about: How a non-exec role helped carve Dame Hayaatun’s path to CEO (01:35) How she landed her first non-exec role (11:22) How sitting on boards helped her improve in her day job (15:16) Two moments Dame Hayaatun felt like the board added the most value (18:52) Why asking for more...