Rhiya Khosla

The greatest piece of advice I have received is to leave a lasting impression, not always by your work, but by being personable. It's about taking that time out of your meetings, or when meeting someone, or in your day-to-day, just to ask them how they are, how they're going, and kind of talk a little bit outside of work life as well. And then always just being available, to an extent, to help out and teach and learn at the same time from them, too.

I think what I would say to young women, especially, is to just have that confidence. I dealt with imposter syndrome too, so my advice is to avoid that. Just trust your gut and trust yourself as a woman in the workplace, and just know that you are smart enough and you are qualified to go any route you would like to and to achieve any goals and any leadership level, or any level, I should say, that you want to.

I think some of the challenges that come up is looking at the processes that we currently have and trying to drive that change. One big thing that I'm focusing on in my field and my roles and my influence is bringing in a lot of AI and automation into our processes. What I've noticed is that there's that cultural pushback, because if people have been doing the task the way they have been doing it for 10 years, 15 years, for example, or even 5 years, they're kind of hesitant to change the process and sometimes kind of second-guess, like, will this actually work? Will the automation actually work? Will the AI actually work? So it's really driving that shift of culture and shift of people's perspectives of how, yes, all of these things can actually help you day to day, and help you provide cleaner, better results, while also just streamlining the workflow. My best advice for overcoming challenges is that I love asking questions, and nobody is going to fault you for asking questions, because that shows that you are willing to learn, to change your own view and change your own route, and that you are intrigued in the topic as well. With any challenge that comes across to you, it's always great to find who are the biggest inputs to maybe the solution that you need, and then just reach out and ask those questions. Before you even do that, I would say it's also just researching yourself as much as you can, and then going in with a little bit of knowledge to those questions as well. But my number one thing to any challenge is just take it one step at a time, maybe you have to walk away and come back to it, but if you've kind of hit all the possibilities that you could yourself with research, then just ask away, and ask anyone that's willing to help. And I am telling you, they will always be there to help.