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Nadine Al-Malki
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I am the Events and Sponsorships Officer for HSBC Bank Middle East Limited in Qatar. I am responsible for the smooth running and perfect implementation of all events and sponsorships that involves the role of a team player, communicator, executor, planner, initiator and facilitator. As I am learning every step of the way I am also working very hard to achieve success in my career. As a Qatari woman I aspire to show the possibilities for and capabilities of Qatari women in the workplace.
Loving what you do
Greta Madgwick
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In my profession, as the Manager of Qatar Communications, I am responsible for the internal communications, media relations, sponsorships and events of HSBC Bank Middle East in Qatar. I am also managing a small team whom I try to guide in their career path, personal successes, challenges, aspirations and ambitions. When I leave my office, I am the wife of a successful IT professional and the mother of a 13-year-old daughter. My family role is my most important and most valuable of all the roles I juggle, and it’s the one I treasure with all my being. I also have an extensive and highly valuable circle of friends with whom I spend as much time as permitted by a busy life schedule.
Loving what you do
Work should never be a burden as it requires a lot of our time and dedication. I recently attended the Nick Vujicic seminar and his true words of thankfulness, happiness and joy once again reminded me that we have to rejoice in everything we do everyday. Additionally I can truly say that I am in the job that perfectly suits my personality and talents.
Inspired by
It is difficult to name only one as I have so many wonderful women in my life. My sister, eight years my se-
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I believe it not only depends on your daily work activities but the atmosphere in your working environment as well as the relationship you have with your fellow colleagues. They play a key role in motivating you to love what you do even more. I have a very social personality; therefore I enjoy meeting new people whether through our sponsorships and events or through seeking assistance from staff in other departments. I also have a very supportive and enthusiastic manager who has guided me in such a great way even through the hard times and she has helped me become the great professional woman that I am today. I work very closely with the team and they always support me.
Inspired by
nior, must be one of my biggest sources of inspiration. She has an amazing intellect and zeal for life. She is a walking encyclopaedia – or in modern terms, Wikipedia – with a fantastic emotional intelligence. I also have a tremendous admiration for women in politics such as Helen Zille in South Africa, Angela Merkel in Germany and Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State in the USA, as I cannot begin to imagine the pressure they are under. How they manage their work-life balance is extremely admirable as their days also only have 24 hours.
The woman who inspires me is none other than my mother. She is a strong and caring mother who raised four children practically on her own, and has followed her dream of being a successful teacher. Through the challenges of life she managed a master’s degree and a PhD in English. She has never stopped studying and is currently studying further while working and being a mother. I would like to follow her example and be like her one day. To be a successful career woman, a caring mother and a continuing student are great measures in life to be known and remembered for.
To be a woman in this century
to be a woman in this century
The 21st century must be the best yet for women. No longer do we have the struggles of our grandmothers and mothers, but we have true opportunity to be successful women in all the roles – professional, family, society etc. The 21st century gives us the opportunity to make the best of anything we have interest and aspirations in. It is a go-for-it century for women.
I think it is a great time to be a woman in this century. The opportunities for a woman in this time are vast; we are no longer under the pressure of holding only one role in life, which is to be a homemaker. We now have the choice of being a wife, a businesswoman or even both. Challenges are plenty and overcoming them is a great achievement.