The Courageous Leaders Club

012 Diya Hofman: Becoming your own leader first and turning weaknesses into opportunities

February 24, 2022 Joanna Howes Season 2 Episode 12
The Courageous Leaders Club
012 Diya Hofman: Becoming your own leader first and turning weaknesses into opportunities
Show Notes

 Diya Hofman is the Head of Project Management at BBC Creative. 


In this episode Diya shares with us the obstacles she faced during the development of her career, after becoming a mother for the first time. Diya explains that it was like a ‘switch went off in her head’, she finally learned to back herself and pursue her career in places where she was given the opportunity of growth. 


She demonstrates how courage can have an incredible impact on our future and how becoming our own leader first, empowers us to take on bigger and better challenges. She also shares her strengths which she now realises are vulnerability, openness, adaptivity, standing by her beliefs and turning her weaknesses into opportunities. 


Diya has had an incredibly successful journey working with the best advertising agencies in the world: Adam and Eve DDB, Saatchi, McCann, Mother and now courageously leading and elevating the project management team at BBC Creative.


Topics covered include:

  • Growth Mindset
  • Backing yourself
  • Becoming your own leader
  • Vulnerability as strength
  • Leading with courage
  • Working against the stereotypes
  • Motherhood and Career
  • Using your voice 


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