Episode 5

David Strang career - Offshore Director at BrandSafway from hands on engineering to leadership

David is the Offshore Director at BrandSafway, an international construction company.

David's career journey

David spent the first 21 years of his career working as a civil engineer, building bridges in the UK and Portugal. He shares a fantastic insight into transitioning from hands on engineering to leadership.

Career Change Tip

In every episode I will be sharing some tips and advice on how to approach a career change or embark on your career journey straight from education. You can find this during the middle of the episode or by using the timestamps below.

00:00 - Introduction

00:40 - part one

26:00 - career change tip

27:25 - part two

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Penny Strutton

Penny is a qualified coach, certified business psychologist and organisational development consultant who works with organisations across the private, public and voluntary sector. Penny works strategically with senior staff, develops leadership capabilities, conducts employee research, delivers career coaching programmes both privately and in-house, integrates and implements cultural change as well as delivers executive coaching, team development and bespoke training activities.
A practitioner member of the Association for Business Psychology, Penny has a BA and Msc in Organisational Psychology, a Diploma in Performance Coaching and is a qualified NLP Practitioner and Lumina Psychometric Profile Practitioner.

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