{"id":509450,"date":"2023-03-06T09:53:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T08:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/?post_type=story&#038;p=865824"},"modified":"2025-02-11T05:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:13:47","slug":"raising-standards","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/au-en\/news\/inside-stories\/raising-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cg-blocks-hero-bleed-banner undefined\"><div class=\"hero-bleed-mp-banner undefined no-overlay  is-image has-card \" 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class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 col-lg-6\"><div class=\"content-box-wrapper\"><div class=\"content-box is-short centralized\"><span class=\"title-tag story-title-tag\">Diversity and inclusion<\/span><h1 class=\"title\">Raising standards<\/h1><p class=\"description\">Building for success with the Capgemini Women in Rugby Leadership Program<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"modal fade ytmodal\" id=\"videoModal344d01a8-46d2-46c6-9e2c-d5e574c514be\" tabindex=\"-1\" role=\"dialog\" aria-labelledby=\"videoModalLabel\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"modal-dialog modal-dialog-centered modal-lg\"><div class=\"modal-content\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"close\" data-bs-dismiss=\"modal\" aria-label=\"Close\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00d7<\/span><\/button><div class=\"modal-body\"><div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\"><div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"\" id=\"video\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-cg-blocks-intro-para undefined section section--intro\"><div class=\"intro-para\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12 col-md-1\"><nav class=\"article-social\"><ul class=\"social-nav\"><li class=\"ip-order-fb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/au-en\/news\/inside-stories\/raising-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"opens in a new window\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"icon-fb\"><\/i><span class=\"sr-only\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"ip-order-li\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/sharing\/share-offsite\/?url=https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/au-en\/news\/inside-stories\/raising-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"opens in a new window\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"icon-li\"><\/i><span class=\"sr-only\">Linkedin<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><div class=\"col-12 col-md-11 col-lg-10\"><h2 class=\"intro-para-title\">Kanisha Vincent on her love for rugby and what she hopes to achieve from her time in the Capgemini Women in Rugby Leadership Program.<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-cg-blocks-group undefined section section--article-content\"><div class=\"article-main-content\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-12 col-md-11 col-lg-10 offset-md-1 offset-lg-1\"><div class=\"article-text article-quote-text\">\n<p>\u201cRugby just engulfed my life,\u201d Kanisha Vincent says as she recounts the story of how she fell in love with the oval-ball game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Kanisha-edited.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866878\" style=\"width:222px;height:280px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kanisha was introduced to rugby when she attended a Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee youth camp in 2010. Having previously played netball, she was attracted by the aspects of both contact and running with the ball in hand that the new sport offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe did some hockey and different things (at the camp), but rugby was just one of the things that really caught me. It looked like a lot of fun,\u201d Kanisha says. \u201cIt just seemed very different from anything that I had done up until that point. I did try hockey for a bit, which was not for me, so rugby seemed like a new and interesting experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after the camp finished, she joined the Royalians club in Port of Spain, and within two years had earned her place on the Trinidad and Tobago women\u2019s sevens national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-encouraging-change\"><strong>Encouraging change<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The game has had a profound impact on Kanisha\u2019s life off the pitch as well as on it and led her to pursue a career in sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the completion of a BSc degree in psychology, with minors in criminology and sociology, she decided to pursue a Master\u2019s in sports performance at the University of Portsmouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her year in England, during which she represented Harlequins Women in the inaugural Premier 15s season, proved to be the first step on her path into rugby administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-665406587_edit.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866889\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On returning to Trinidad and Tobago, she vowed to help the country\u2019s union set and raise standards for the women\u2019s game. Retiring from playing in 2019, she is currently the chair of its selections committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selection is an area of particular interest to Kanisha and has formed a key pillar of her work so far on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.women.rugby\/news\/693522\/twelve-inspiring-women-awarded-executive-leadership-scholarships-as-world-rugby-drives-gender-parity-across-the-game?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Capgemini Women in Rugby Leadership Program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat is the area where it is most prudent for us to adjust in order to see a domino effect in other things,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we set a standard and say that athletes need to be at a certain level of fitness in order to be part of our training teams, it means that our coaches and athletes understand that this is the level they need to be at \u2013 and they adjust. So, I think when we set standards, we encourage change in other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1035175798.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866899\" style=\"width:480px;height:320px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kanisha was announced as one of 12 participants for 2022 last March, having been advised to apply by Trinidad and Tobago Rugby Union President, and program alum, Maria Thomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has since completed Capgemini courses in Storytelling in Business and Building High-Performance Teams, and is working towards a third, Connected Manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting because it\u2019s a different opportunity,\u201d Vincent says about the program. \u201cThe courses were really good. I particularly enjoyed Storytelling in Business as it focused on how to connect your presentation, meeting, or conversation with stories that are impactful, that communicate the message you&#8217;re trying to convey and help you better connect with the audience. So, that was really useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Building High-Performance Teams course was as it sounds, and because our selection committee is a bit new in the iteration that it is now, it was good to have a better understanding of how to then build that out with what we have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Making connections<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Kanisha\u2019s time on the program also enabled her to make a host of important connections, not least in New Zealand last November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vincent attended the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.world.rugby\/news\/778029\/women-in-rugby-international-summit-and-events-connect-capgemini-women-in-rugby-leadership-programme-participants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Rugby Women in Rugby International Summit and Events<\/a>, as well as the Rugby World Cup 2021 final at Eden Park. She then stayed on in Auckland for the IWG Conference, sharing an apartment with her former Trinidad team-mate Thomas and other past participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.capgemini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/GettyImages-1261583718.jpg?w=960\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866894\" style=\"width:433px;height:290px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStaying in the same house and having conversations about our experiences highlighted why the network itself is one of the biggest resources on the program,\u201d Vincent says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was amazing. Being a rugby fan, you always want to go to New Zealand because that is the home of rugby. We did get to go to the final \u2013 it was an incredible atmosphere being able to be there in the stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was probably one of the best experiences of my life so far, being surrounded by so many rugby people from different avenues and people who do different things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHaving those conversations, sharing how we all relate, and talking about the development of rugby around the world \u2013 it was a grounding and inspiring experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Republished with permission from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.world.rugby\/news\/785018\/kanisha-vincent-capgemini-women-in-rugby-leadership-programme-interview\"><em>World Ruby<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section latestStoriesBlock \"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"contentTitle\"><h2 class=\"story-heading\">Inside stories<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-4 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