Salesforce Career Conversations #10: Helle Justesen
Episode 10: Helle Justensen talks to Lee and Theresa about Salesforce Change Management and Digital Transformation. Plus provides her tips for remaining positive during a pandemic.
[This interview with Helle has been transcribed for your benefit. Please ignore any rogue typos. Thank You.]
Lee Durrant: Hi, and welcome to RODcast with me Lee Durrant, joined today with Theresa as well. We're both going to be interviewing Helle Justesen today, who is in the Salesforce ecosystem, but this one's more about her experience as a transformational change specialist and a business and life coach and how she sees the future after COVID-19 and all of the lockdown issues we've been all going through. Well, this has been recorded in the middle of lockdown, but I think hopefully you'll all see some positive messages there from Helle about how life might change, but also how the Salesforce ecosystem will potentially thrive in the future, so I hope you enjoy it.
Lee: Hi, Helle. Welcome to the podcast. How are you?
Helle Justesen: I'm fine. Thank you. How are you?
Lee: I'm okay. Theresa is with us as well as you know.
Theresa: Hello.
Helle: Hi. Theresa, how are you?
Theresa: I'm good. Thank you very much. I'm looking forward to this day when - I don't want to use the word normal - but looking forward to the day when we can actually be a lot more social with people and not feel like you got to keep your closest people at arm's distance. Looking forward to those times. [chuckles]
Lee: Before we dive into it, are you okay just to give us a little introduction of yourself in terms of… Just introduce yourself if that's okay.
Helle: Yes, [laughs] of course. My name is Helle, Helle Justesen, and I am 43 years old. I want to put that in there because I'm proud of my age. I'm still alive, so that's good.
[laughter]
Helle: I have a feeling that we don't celebrate the fact that we get to get older enough. That's one of the things that…
Theresa: Yes, I love that, and it's the wisdom that comes with it. Why not shout about it? Absolutely.
Helle: Yes, exactly, and the fact that you get another year to do the crazy things that you want to do. I'm a transformation change specialist with a background in a bit of management consultancy, and I've worked in a multitude of different industries and things like that. The thing is there's always these similarities between each industry and everybody thinks that they're unique, but to be fair, we're really not. [laughs] We're all creatures of habits. That's one of the things that you can always take with you when you're on your life journey and things like that.
I'm very much a holistic person as well. I see us as living a life not necessarily having a career. I think sometimes that when people face a crisis and a crisis can be losing a job, which a lot of people are in that situation right now, or going through a divorce, which also a lot of people are facing right now.
[laughter]
Helle: Because of being at home with the family and things are coming out right now as well.
Lee: Theresa's laughing quite heartily at that one. It's a bit worrying.
Theresa: [laughs] You're so worried.
Helle: The thing is, with that, it's instead of seeing it as a tearful goodbye to something, then seeing it as an opportunity to actually go out and do the things that you've always dreamed about doing. Sometimes a crisis needs to happen for us to actually wake up and change what we're doing. It's the same thing with illness as well. It's like if you've gone down a road where you've been living an unhealthy lifestyle, then something needs to wake you up for you to actually alter that lifestyle or else we go through life mindless.
It's not really a conscious road that we're taking. We're not conscious of the present moment. We either dwell on the past and it's never a good thing about the past.
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