Silvia Roldán, CEO of Metro de Madrid: "Why did things have to be done the way they have been doing them for 100 years?"
We are talking about 7,200 workers, 302 stations and a railway network, the most extensive in Spain, of 294 kilometers. Since Metro de Madrid was inaugurated in 1919 by King Alfonso XIII, never before has a woman been in charge of Metro de Madrid. "It is important that important positions are filled by women in order to encourage others to continue working," says Silvia Roldán.
The CEO came to the post in 2019, bringing extensive experience in public management due to her professional career linked to transportation for the past 20 years as manager of Adif. A sector, with an eminently masculine tradition, in which Silvia Roldán has managed to make her way. "I have gotten into the last corner of the company".
His way of being eminently proactive has led him to print a more practical form of management. Women "are more direct" and "perhaps we know how to organize time better." Aware of the importance of moving forward, Mónica Roldán asked herself, in one of the first meetings with the Works Council, "why did things have to be done as they had been doing them for 100 years?" And he decided to bring a new style "listening and learning a lot from the entire team of professionals that Metro has."
Since she decided to study Industrial Engineering, in which there were only 25% girls, the Counselor became an expert in breaking down barriers in favor of equality between men and women.
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