Andrea Feeney & Lily Murphy Her Next Step Episode 8

Her Next Step

Welcome to her next step, the podcast where women in the public service talk about how their passion and their intuition led them to interesting and exciting career paths. We'll hear about the fears and challenges that could have held them back and about the internal and external supports that enabled them to take their next step.

Andrea, you and I have worked side by side on a few occasions, and so I know about you that you're absolutely passionate about ensuring that all of the students in this country get a fair and equitable. I suppose, access to exams and experience of the exam system.

I'm really looking forward to having a conversation with you here today that talks about your career and some of the interesting advice that you have for women in terms of how they might also pursue careers in the public sector. So thank you so much for joining us from Athlone.

It's nice to stop sometimes, isn't it, to just have an opportunity to reflect on your career and how you got to be where you are today.

We will start where I usually do. I'm always curious to know when you were young, when you were in primary school, if I had spoken to some of your peers and are indeed to your family and said, somebody you know will end up as this chief executive of the State Exams Commission, would they have automatically assumed it would be you?