Uber’s Nicole Bardsley on work-life balance and leadership [Video]

Nicole Bardsley, the new head of marketing at Uber, Uber Eats, and Uber Car Share ANZ, has opened up about the point in her career that she “found really tricky to manage.”

“I started that year [2015] doing the Marketing Academy and getting married, and I finished it having my first son.

“There was a lot of growth and personal development that happened over that period of time. I really got to a point where I was like, I need a new challenge when I come back from mat leave, but is it the right time to do that?”

Bardsley was making the move from Virgin Mobile to Westpac when she found out she was pregnant with her second son. “I felt like I was really letting them down by doing that at this point in time, and I felt quite apprehensive about telling them,” she admits.

“I …