Think Education

In this latest Think Education podcast, Chris and Judith talk to Jessica Turner, CEO of QS, about her journey from Australia to the USA to the UK – with all stops in between. This marks the second in our current series looking at women in leadership and international higher education. Jessica talked about her background in music and how this creativity and willingness to follow her own path – even while studying in a heavily male-dominated engineering discipline at university – as helped her throughout her professional career. Jessica talked about mentors and shared a powerful story about the normalisation of balancing home and work life – and being equally comfortable in both.  We talked about the role of parents and how we can help to shape the environment in which our children work and more importantly, how they are able to respond to, and indeed, challenge it. Jessica is strongly motivated by learning and brings a curiosity to everything she does. This shines through in our conversation, as does her passi