Claudia McKay works as a Senior Financial Sector Specialist with the World Bank Group. She has lived in Oxford, Lilongwe (Malawi), Washington DC and now Nairobi while working to increase the value of financial services for people living in poverty. She currently leads a team across Africa that is helping to develop and scale mobile money services for the poor through engagement with financial service providers and policymakers. She has also worked as a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.
Claudia holds a Master’s of Business Administration from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. She is originally from Los Angeles and lives in Nairobi with her husband, two children, three dogs and five chickens.
Sneak Peek Into What You’ll Learn…
04:04 – Claudia discusses her career journey that led from the Boston Consulting Group to Kenya, by way of Oxford and Malawi.
09:20 – Claudia tell us how it felt to be a young leader with responsibility for managing an organization.
11:20 – We learn how an unplanned move to Kenya with an 18 month-old baby was a great experience and one of the best decisions for her family.
13:25 – Claudia talks about how she made big life and career decisions.
18:15 – Claudia tells us what career advice from Sheryl Sandberg she thinks is very important.
20:15 – We learn what surprised Claudia about raising a family in Kenya.
26:30 – Claudia shares more about raising children with close ties to their family while living on the other side of the globe.
33:03 – Claudia tells us what she thinks should be a non-negotiable for any working mother.
37:36 – Brass Tacks— The lightning round of concrete advice and tips.
Quotable quotes:
- “I’m going to be a better mom if I take time to do things for myself.”
- “Stay flexible, things are always changing. Even if you feel like another season is coming, you’ve got to stay flexible…”
- “This is really, really important. For me as a working mother, taking care of myself, especially with the kind of work that I do, but really for any working mother, I think it should be a non-negotiable.
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