![]() ![]() She is currently completing business studies with Wharton Business School and running a small board advisory consultancy to embed her studies and learning.ĭr. She has worked within the global pharmaceutical industry for almost a decade including holding a number of senior leadership roles at Roche. Funke Abimbola is a C-suite healthcare executive with a first career in law. I wish you all well during these challenging times.ĭr. Webber's questions to guide and support their leadership development. ![]() I would like everyone within my LinkedIn network to think carefully about the answers to Dr. Webber’s questions, moreso during this pandemic. Her 2017 TEDx talk, ‘How to be remembered’ is well worth a watch and can be viewed at:Īs a leader who is constantly striving to be the best that I can be, I have found myself carefully considering Dr. Until then, women were not considered to be ‘persons’ and were, therefore, unable to enter the professions!ĭana has since built a large digital library of stories and continues to campaign extensively for women in the legal profession, building upon the legacy of those who came before us. This UK Act of Parliament became law on 23 December 1919 and enabled women to join the professions and professional bodies, to sit on juries and be awarded degrees. Her aim was to celebrate the past to shape the future for women in law by building up a digital library of stories of women lawyers in the run up to 2019, a year that marked the centenary of The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. In 2014, my good friend Dana Denis-Smith decided to launch the First 100 Years Project to recognise and acknowledge the achievements of women within the legal profession. She chose, instead, to focus on her legacy and what she would leave behind. Until now, Justice Ginsburg had been open and honest about her health issues (having previously battled cancer 4 times).īut she chose, on this 5th occasion, to keep her cancer battle a secret. What has since transpired is that she knew that she was unlikely to recover from this latest bout of cancer as of February this year. ![]() Justice Bader Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer two days ago on Friday 18th September 2020. The 'Notorious RBG' as she was fondly called was a feminist icon, a champion of gender equality and widely acknowledged as being the “architect of the legal fight for women’s rights in the 1970s” (reference ). The lyrics to ' Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?' have particular resonance in light of this week’s news regarding Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ![]() The truth is that we have little or no control over the way others choose to remember us. The core theme of the final act song 'Who lives, who dies, who tells your story' is legacy - how we are remembered and an acknowledgment that our worth is often only decided following death. I have recently written a number of blogs inspired by ‘Hamilton’, the musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and based on the life of US Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton. Lyrics from ‘ Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?’ - finale song, ‘Hamilton’ the musical Who keeps your flame? Who tells your story?” “And when you're gone, who remembers your name? ![]()
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