As a team manager, Indy has been incredibly supportive through each and every hurdle and provides a safe space for the team to share ideas, enabling us all to feel like our voice is heard and our opinions valued.
Indy’s determination to improve our faculty’s student applications is reflected in our figures. Through digital advertising, CRM comms, recruitment events and web promotion, all four schools in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences saw an average increase in applications by 20% year-on-year.
Tell us a bit about yourself?
I’m passionate about helping people - driving effective attitude and behaviour change to enhance, improve and enrich people's lives.
What challenges have you faced in the last 12 months?
Balance. Trying to get this right has been immensely challenging! Creating boundaries around areas of my life that have naturally intertwined with one another has been difficult to guide. Fielding my passion for delivering at work, being there for my team, supporting my family and ensuring there is enough left for my own wellbeing has been a constant work-in-progress. Despite the demands of the role – of which there are many - I am fortunate to have a line manager that affords me the autonomy I need, and an amazing team that are committed and work collaboratively and supportively – the best team I have had the pleasure of managing!
What are you looking forward to?
- Using lessons learned to innovate within our new faculty structure
- Growth – professionally and personally
- Completing my Coaching qualification to support women and BAME colleagues in their career and life journey as part of the coaching network.
- Fun - new adventures and new experiences.
Who or what inspires you?
- Creativity - colour, design, pattern, fashion, the spoken and written word, personal stories
- My Indian/British upbringing underpinned with Sikh values - humanity, equality, humility, service, charity, commitment – and my late father-in-law wise words, ‘Never lose your principles in life’
- Strength of women in my bloodline
- My nan - living through the partition of India, raising her grandchildren, and now caring for her son and 26-year-old grandson with special needs after losing her daughter-in-law to Covid
- My mum – ability to have absolute faith in our creator to see her through a life-changing diagnosis during the Covid outbreak
- My daughter – growing in independence as she navigates ‘big school’, developing curiosity and interests in new subjects and taking ownership of her responsibilities
- My sisters – standing strong as five women
