Transformative Thinking with Nargis Hilal

This week’s conversation with Nargis Hilal, Chief Compliance Officer & Counsel of Lazard Asset Management LLC, shows us the importance of transformational thinking. Embracing transformation is about being open to change and seeing it as an opportunity for growth and greater opportunities. Transformation is the key to so many new ways of being organized, structural and functional in our personal and professional lives. She shows us how transformational thinking should be an integral part of who we are. That we should learn to live and breathe transformation so we can bring about change. Learning to pivot your perspective, respecting other views and being nimble is paramount to being transformational. This conversation will begin to give us the tools we need that can put us on our own path of transformation. Nargis Hilal is Chief Compliance Officer & Counsel of Lazard Asset Management LLC. She is generally responsible for overseeing the firm’s compliance program, including the development and implementation of key policies and procedures. Nargis directly supervises the Core and Surveillance Compliance teams in New York. She also acts as Chief Compliance Officer for the Lazard Funds, Inc., Lazard's mutual fund family, and Lazard's affiliated limited purpose broker dealer. As Counsel, Nargis also helps handle legal and regulatory matters in the US relating to investment advisory and broker-dealer activities. She is also Chief Compliance Officer of Lazard's affiliated limited purpose broker dealer. She began working in the investment field in 2009. Prior to joining Lazard in 2017, Nargis was Chief Compliance Officer at KLS Diversified Asset Management. She has a J.D. from Villanova University and a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University. She is a member of the New York State Bar. Please join us again in the coming weeks as we continue Warriors At Work conversations to guide us in transforming and enriching ourselves and the organizations we lead and are a part of. (3:20) What is it like to live and breathe transformation? How does Nargis feel about being tagged with the word “transformation”? We learn about her upbringing that brought her to this moment. (6:47) How does Nargis define “transformational thinking”? (7:59) Where does Nargis find struggles in following the transformational path? (9:24) Does she have people around her, or is she aware of it herself, when she feels resistant to transformation?(10:05) How did Nargis know that transformational thinking was a part of her leadership brand? (11:50) How does Nargis get to a place when she sees the need to ignite transformation in others? How does she empower those that she works with? (14:29) What are some of the barriers to showing organizations the importance of transformation. (17:18) Can people learn this way of thinking? Is it innate, or can we learn the skills to be transformational? (18:39) Nargis shares her experiences working with others as they embrace transformation. (21:49) How is transformational thinking contagious? How does ego play a part? (24:24) Who, in her life, does she feel influenced her to think in this way? (27:00) How does Nargis stay on the path, what in her life keeps her in line with transformational thinking? (29:23) What is she working on, as we start a new year? Connect with Nargis Hilalhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nargis-hilal-055925109Subscribe:Warriors At Work Podcasts Website: https://jeaniecoomber.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/986666321719033/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeanie_coomber/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanie_coomberLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanie-coomber-90973b4/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbMZ2HyNNyPoeCSqKClBC_w