ОБ ЭТОМ ЭПИЗОДЕ
Shada Elborno has built a 29-year career at Standard Chartered, rising to Managing Director while maintaining a value-based leadership approach in an industry known for aggressive cultures.
Join us this week on the Open Equity show, as we're discussing how she defied stereotypes as an Emirati female in investment banking, why kindness became her leadership superpower rather than a weakness, and her framework for staying grounded in values while navigating the pressures of scaling responsibility across billion-dollar transactions.
Do you want to scale? We’re looking for more great companies to invest in and help grow.
Join the Open Equity newsletter for weekly insights.
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Leading with soul and staying aligned to core values
05:18 Embracing self-awareness and defying cultural stereotypes
09:07 Evolving leadership through decades of purposeful work
13:38 Learning confidence through discomfort and public speaking
16:56 Staying rooted while adapting to constant change
19:43 Value-based investing and creating long-term impact
23:06 Personal responsibility as transaction scale multiplies
26:34 Shifting investment flows and future-focused sectors in MENA
29:06 Being a visible example without chasing titles
31:24 Loyalty to one organisation and learning through hard seasons
35:23 Staying steady as a leader in uncertain times
39:34 Navigating digital noise and social media
41:30 Founders approaching investment banks with new ideas
44:46 Mentorship, legacy, and staying open to reinvention
48:16 Seven lessons from a career rooted in kindness and grit
→ Follow Thomas & Open Equity
LinkedIn
Instagram
TikTok
Website
→ Follow Shada
LinkedIn
Join us this week on the Open Equity show, as we're discussing how she defied stereotypes as an Emirati female in investment banking, why kindness became her leadership superpower rather than a weakness, and her framework for staying grounded in values while navigating the pressures of scaling responsibility across billion-dollar transactions.
Do you want to scale? We’re looking for more great companies to invest in and help grow.
Join the Open Equity newsletter for weekly insights.
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Leading with soul and staying aligned to core values
05:18 Embracing self-awareness and defying cultural stereotypes
09:07 Evolving leadership through decades of purposeful work
13:38 Learning confidence through discomfort and public speaking
16:56 Staying rooted while adapting to constant change
19:43 Value-based investing and creating long-term impact
23:06 Personal responsibility as transaction scale multiplies
26:34 Shifting investment flows and future-focused sectors in MENA
29:06 Being a visible example without chasing titles
31:24 Loyalty to one organisation and learning through hard seasons
35:23 Staying steady as a leader in uncertain times
39:34 Navigating digital noise and social media
41:30 Founders approaching investment banks with new ideas
44:46 Mentorship, legacy, and staying open to reinvention
48:16 Seven lessons from a career rooted in kindness and grit
→ Follow Thomas & Open Equity
TikTok
Website
→ Follow Shada
английский
объединенное Королевство
РАСШИФРОВКА 🔗
Are you the producer of this podcast?
Add a podcast transcript
Need Audio-to-Text?
Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds
ПОИСК ПРОШЛЫХ ЭПИЗОДОВ
Искать прошлые эпизоды Open Equity With Thomas Cornwall.
ДРУГИЕ ЭПИЗОДЫ В ЭТОМ ПОДКАсте
We scaled a technology company from zero to $30 million revenue in 24 months while maintaining profitability and strong margins.Many founders assume rapid scaling requires perfect products, unlimited capital, or complex strategies. This episode of Open Equity breaks down the exact three-step system…
Obediah Ayton built the region's leading family office summit from scratch, creating a platform where multi-million dollar deals get done and emerging fund managers raise capital – all while running a growing accounting practice across the UK and UAE.
This week on the
Open Equity
show, we’re disc…
Private equity firms routinely build billion-dollar companies with playbooks most business owners overlook.In today’s video, we’ll be going over three strategies to take your business to the next level.You'll hear the exact framework behind a $1.75 billion business exit, how to build value in the p…
Jeremy Harbour has built and exited dozens of companies, taken multiple businesses public, and now trains thousands of dealmakers worldwide – all without using traditional investment banking or requiring massive upfront capital.This week on the Open Equity show, we're discussing his unconventional …
Tarik Chebib took Capital.com from startup to regional leader in the UAE, scaling to 70 people in six months while cracking organic social growth in a way that established competitors still can't replicate.Rather than continuing to hire, Tarik paused to rebuild how the business operated. He's focus…
Отказ от ответственности: Подкаст и иллюстрации, встроенные в эту страницу, взяты из Thomas Cornwall, который является собственностью его владельца и не связан или не одобрен Listen Notes, Inc.
ИЗМЕНИТЬ
Спасибо, что помогаете поддерживать базу подкастов актуальной.
