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title: Remember Who You Are
description: Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée DBE introduces London Edition 124, with NHS nursing director Moriam Adekunle on the cover and a week of Remembrance and Diwali.
author: Dame Neslyn Watson-Druée, DBE (Executive Contributor)
date: 2026-11-02T12:55:17.344Z
updated: 2026-11-02T12:55:52.517Z
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Some of the most capable people I have worked with spent years at the edge of the room. They did the work, carried the team and covered the gaps, and still they waited for someone senior to notice them and say their name. Many of them are still waiting. This edition is for them, and for every leader with the power to change that.

## Moriam Adekunle and the career that began with a change of plan

Our cover star, Moriam Adekunle, planned to become a doctor. Then her family's circumstances changed, and the path she had mapped out for herself closed. She went into nursing instead. Almost three decades later she is Director of Nursing for Quality Governance in the NHS, and she still describes the work she does as nursing.

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