The Inspiring Women of The Toyota Family: Julie Viljoen
I’m Jilly fulan work for tgb and I’m one of the after sales performance managers somebody used to ask me 10 years ago do you want your child to be an automotive I’m like absolutely not I went to general managers conference 10 years ago and we turned up and it was it was 300
Men in black tie and I Six Women in our evening gowns and I thought oh I’m so outnumbered here it’s unbelievable no it’s not like that at all it’s definitely not like that here the culture of the entire industry is changing so that you recognize for
Your potential I cannot go and fix a car I cannot do diagnostics in a car but that didn’t mean I couldn’t go and run after sales departments it didn’t mean I could do the strategy for that business it doesn’t mean I can’t add value and to that business you’re very hard on
Yourself as a woman personally to achieve in each area of your life I think you I think you’re we’re probably too hard on ourselves I see empowerment is also you know autonomy to make mistakes that’s empow me to fall get back up again give me Brazilian give me
Strength Toyota’s given me the autonomy to be my own manager I have a fantastic manager and and team of managers around me to support me what I would love to see is is um more women be encouraged to get involved um and more women feel like
It’s a safe environment to come into and it’s an environment now that I’d be more than happy and to support my my little one and getting into
“The culture of the entire industry is changing so that you’re recognised for your potential”.
Hear the inspiring story of Julie Viljoen, After Sales Performance Manager at TGB.
