{"id":1849,"date":"2026-11-02T11:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:35:51","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:35:51","slug":"juliet-sargant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2026\/11\/02\/juliet-sargant\/","title":{"rendered":"Juliet Sargant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have worked across quarrying, asphalt operations and surfacing for over 35 years working within the senior management teams in family owned businesses. I have had a career which has spanned across many disciplines including finance, HR\/Company Secretary, Sales\/Commercial and Operations which has allowed me to become the Director of Asphalt leading existing teams but also being Director on a \u00a310m project to build a new plant and teams for a new commercial area for the business, more recently I have been a General Manager at another Asphalt business. I now have my own business working with businesses to set strategies for growth and development.<\/p>\n<h3>Top achievements<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Successfully completing the project of building an Asphalt Plant and developing the commercial strategy.<\/li>\n<li>Leading my teams and seeing people grow and develop into new roles.<\/li>\n<li>Starting my own business which is already employing someone in less than a year.<\/li>\n<li>Being a women in a very male dominated industry in a senior role.<\/li>\n<li>Having my daughter whilst maintaining all of my achievements and nurturing hers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Why did you choose the Kent MBA?<\/h3>\n<p>I visited the business school whilst my daughter was looking at universities and was captivated by the lecturers during their presentation, I felt excited about learning whilst I was there.<\/p>\n<h3>MBA goals<\/h3>\n<p>I want to complete the course, expand my knowledge, and understand theories to expand my thinking. To bring my experience to the course and share this knowledge.<\/p>\n<h3>What are your aspirations post MBA?<\/h3>\n<p>To grow the work that I am doing with my business and the other businesses that I work with, expanding what I can deliver and to see their businesses expand as a result.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the best lesson you have learned in business?<\/h3>\n<p>To ensure your team understand you &#8211; I always expect honesty and trust.<\/p>\n<h3>Tell us something about you that may surprise your colleagues?<\/h3>\n<p>I weave on a loom to relax!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have worked across quarrying, asphalt operations and surfacing for over 35 years working within the senior management teams in family owned businesses. I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2026\/11\/02\/juliet-sargant\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84053,"featured_media":1850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288289],"tags":[9875],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mba-2026","tag-mba"],"sub_title":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}