After spending the primary a part of her skilled profession in homeland Brazil, Talita Lemes moved to the Netherlands six years in the past to kickstart her subsequent skilled journey and comply with an MBA. Now at BlinkLane Consulting, Talita helps purchasers with digital technique design and transformation.
Are you able to inform us extra about your background?
I grew up in Brazil and began my profession at a worldwide industrial gasoline firm. I then labored in telecom and consulting earlier than I moved to the Netherlands to begin my MBA in Imagineering Enterprise Innovation on the College of Utilized Sciences in Breda.
Did you say Imagineering?
Sure certainly, the subject focuses on the engineering of our creativeness. It’s about the way you ignite transformative course of inside organisations with a watch on the social setting. I used to be drawn to the subject as a result of I used to be working inside consultancy, targeted on design pondering and digital transformation. Imagineering takes place on the intersection of the 2 domains.
What introduced you to BlinkLane Consulting in the beginning of this yr?
Previous to becoming a member of BlinkLane Consulting I used to be working for CM.com, a Dutch firm that gives cloud software program for advertising, gross sales and buyer capabilities. The corporate is internationalising globally and that enabled me to work throughout completely different multicultural groups – I actually loved this a part of the job as range brings a recent perspective, new methods of doing issues.
What I actually get pleasure from is engaged on the design and execution of transformation, following a human-centred strategy that mixes the exhausting aspect of change with the folks aspect. That’s precisely what BlinkLane Consulting gives! I’m decided to assist firms deal with their transformation challenges resembling changing into extra agile, changing into extra progressive or adopting datadriven methods of working.
How do you look again at your first 5 months?
As quickly as I began, I instantly rolled on to a consumer challenge, the place I helped the challenge staff develop a brand new product growth course of. It was a really attention-grabbing engagement because the consumer was transitioning quickly from start-up to scale up mode, which supplied a dynamic context to the change course of. Utilizing design dash periods we helped the consumer develop the method and go to market.
Internally, I’ve acquired resembling heat welcome by my colleagues. The tradition is so pleasant and family-like.
At BlinkLane Consulting, there’s a lot room for being entrepreneurial – the agency and its staff breathes an entrepreneurial spirit. When you have one thing in thoughts, if there’s an initiative that you just wish to put in place, there’s all the time the area to place ahead that concept to somebody. I feel this is a superb trait of the corporate’s tradition, it fosters creativity and retains folks progressive.
In the meantime, I’m having fun with the mentorship program at BlinkLane Consulting, which helps you set private growth objectives after which works with you to mirror on progress, and see what must be executed to attain the objectives. This strategy actually helps you turn into a greater skilled (and particular person) – I’ve had a lot profit from the primary months.
Lastly, what’s subsequent in your agenda when it comes to studying?
Subsequent up is changing into a extra rounded facilitator, a greater communicator and figuring out how one can easily navigate inside completely different ranges in an organisation. In massive firms, there are many completely different ranges of hierarchy, seniority, experience, and so forth, and figuring out how one can strategy and join with all these ranges is a key talent for anybody concerned with technique execution and making change occur.
Fortunately, at BlinkLane Consulting (and guardian Highberg) there are a great deal of alternatives for coaching & growth, each when it comes to formal coaching in addition to on the job studying.
