- Programme studied: Executive MSc Social Business and Entrepreneurship (EMSBE)
- Year of Graduation: 2022
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Aliyyah is a Director, Trustee, Mediator and Mother with an eye for finding workable solutions to persistent challenges or conflicts. She is motivated by enabling companies, communities, organisations, and individuals to reach their full potential.
Current job title and description of what this role entails:
I hold several roles that include:
- Director – Askham Village Community Limited. I lead a specialist care and rehab service which aims to improve the quality of life of those who live and work with us.
- Non-Exec Director – Cambridgeshire Community Services Trust. Specifically, I work on quality improvement, audit, and adult clinical operations.
- Vice President – Ismaili Council for the UK. Together with the President, I look after the social governance of our faith community and our volunteer workforce of over 2,000 individuals.
Tell us about your career journey since graduating from LSE?
I have continued to work for Askham Village Community Limited, my family’s business where I have been able to better think through our social impact implementation plan. The biggest change since graduating has been my proactive efforts to take on a Non-Executive Director role to learn and contribute in a more focused governance capacity.
How has the programme you studied helped your career since you graduated?
Two key points here:
1) I now have an incredibly diverse group of high performing individuals as a sound board for any ideas, challenges, scenarios I face in my various working roles.
2) I feel better able to articulate what drives me, what I value – and I have the confidence to do so to help me make decisions about how I spend my time.
What’s the best piece of career advice you’ve received?
We are trained and socialised to think of our professional careers as our raison d’etre and the source of purpose in our lives. Since undertaking the programme, I have developed a lifestyle in which my sense of purpose and value add comes from many different aspects of how I spend my time – in many ways my working career is more of an enabler for other work.
What’s the greatest challenge you’ve had to overcome?
I really enjoyed engaging in the academic process through the programme and have an ambition to do a PhD – but now is not the right time for me taking into consideration all other commitments and goals that I have. My current challenge is being able to make the time to keep learning whilst not undertaking a formal education programme.
What are your hopes for the future?
Too many to articulate! - I simply want to keep having fun, adding value, and being generous with my time and my expertise.The how and the what I’m happy to let evolve and meander!
Share with us your fondest memory of the Department of Management.
Bringing my then one and five-year-old children to the graduation ceremony and hearing their snack packets rustling while Minouche Shafik (LSE Vice Chancellor at the time) discussed the power of education in a changing the world.
My class and my professors were so accommodating of my family commitments, and equally my children were so accommodating of my studying commitments. I will never forget my daughter sitting next to me on many a weekend writing her own very thoughtful ‘essay’ on measuring social return.
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