Juggy Sihota
By Anika Truter
August 2014
Women’s Leadership Circle Member Profile, Juggy Sihota
Juggy Sihota is a passionate member of The Vancouver Board of Trade's Women's Leadership Advisory Council who defines success as being truly happy with both her professional decisions and contributions to the community.
As an executive with TELUS Health, Sihota is a wonderful asset to the Vancouver business community, because she recognizes that one of her responsibilities as a leader is to help create more leaders. With that in mind, she takes great satisfaction in encouraging and assisting with the development and mentorship of future leaders. Sihota adds that formally recognizing her employees' success brings her a great sense of pride.
Sihota says integrity and work ethic were instilled in her from a young age. She says she grew up admiring her mother's sense of bravery and kindness, and over the years, she has aspired to adhere to her mother's fierce alacrity in the face of adversity.
When asked about her favourite WLC memory, Sihota said it was attending former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's keynote address earlier this year. Sihota says she not only admired Clinton's pertinent speech, but also the immense amount of work on the part of the WLC to help prepare for the event. Sihota referred to the event as a "momentous occasion" for the WLC, adding that she "was so very proud to be there as a woman, as a business leader, and as a WLC advisory board member."
Sihota says she loves working in the health-care industry because she is vehement about working toward positive change. She says she calls upon personal experience with the imperfections of the Canadian health-care system to propel her. Although many feel cynical about the challenges facing Canada's healthcare system, Sihota says it's important to see these issues as an opportunity for advancement.
Sihota is currently working on making home health-care monitoring services more widely available for patients living with chronic diseases. By developing this service, she says she hopes clients will see an increase in their quality of life as they experience freedom from the conventional hospital setting.
Juggy Sihota is Vice President of Client Experience Strategy and Development at TELUS Health and a recipient of the Business in Vancouver Forty Under Forty Award.