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Margarete McGrath, Chief Digital Officer, Dell Technologies UK

About This Episode

Two of the UK’s top technologists, Dayne Turbitt, Senior Vice-President and UK General Manager, and Margarete McGrath, Chief Digital Officer of Dell Technologies UK, join Michael Hayman in this week’s Change Makers. As the country moves from lockdown into recovery and organisations return to the workplace, Dayne and Margarete share their thoughts on how COVID-19 has accelerated digitisation and remote working and what that means for the future, as well as looking at the opportunities for technology to drive human progress.

Margarete McGrath

Margarete works with a diverse group of Dell Technologies clients to support them with their digital and security transformations. She is passionate about using technology for good and ensuring that diversity and inclusion is part of the design principles from the start. She supports Dell Technologies clients to become digitally enabled and helps them to transform to become a purpose lead organisation. She drives large scale change programmes to deliver sustainable business outcomes, focussed on fixing problems and creating meaningful partnerships. In her role, she focuses on the changing nature of work and the exciting possibility presented by emerging disruptive technologies. Margarete is a champion of diversity in digital and a strong advocate of STEM. She is big believer in female entrepreneurship and green technology, and an advocate of Mental Health and Wellbeing in Dell Technologies.

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Lockdown List

What is a book that has changed your life?

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 

What are you watching in lockdown?

The Morning Show on Apple TV

 

 

What are your top five lockdown tracks?

Fleetwood Mac – You Can Go Your Own Way

Florence and the Machine – Dog Days Are Over

Emma Langford – Marianna

Taylor Swift – You Need To Calm Down

Bruce Springsteen – Waitin On A Sunny Day

In one sentence, describe your new normal.

Fit, present and healthy

Who is your biggest inspiration and why?

There are so many people who inspire me everyday, but my parents are the ones that are closest to me.

What is your best tip for life ?

Believe in yourself

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