A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON CAREERS. ABOUT JESSICA JAIRATH.

For almost two decades, I've worked inside complex organisations, helping make decisions that shaped businesses, teams and long-term strategy. Those years taught me as much about people and organisations as they did about business itself.

My career has spanned procurement, programme leadership and business strategy across global manufacturing organisations, high-growth businesses and government. Yet my role was rarely just about the “job.” It was about understanding people, navigating complexity and solving problems where there was rarely one "right" answer.

Over the years, I realised that careers aren't built on technical ability & talent alone.

They're shaped by judgement. By relationships. By understanding how organisations really work.

Too often, talented women quietly leave careers they once loved. Not because they've stopped caring or lost their ambition, but because navigating the realities of organisational life without the right support becomes exhausting.

Careers are influenced as much by perception as they are by performance.

Whilst none of us can control every decision an organisation makes, we can influence far more than we might think. Understanding where that influence exists is often the difference between feeling stuck and continuing to build a career you genuinely enjoy.

Those are the conversations that too often happen behind closed doors.

Becoming a mother made me realise how widespread those conversations were missing. I met talented women across industries and at every stage of their careers who weren't lacking capability. They simply lacked access to the perspective, professional relationships and strategic conversations that help people navigate organisations with confidence.

That's why I created The Meeting Point.

To help women establish where they have influence, make better decisions and continue building careers that challenge them, fulfil them and reflect who they are.

I believe better careers come from better decisions. Better decisions come from better conversations. Better conversations come from better relationships.

Every talented woman deserves the opportunity to keep building a career she loves, supported by the conversations and relationships that help her navigate whatever comes next.