{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Carole O'Neil on Leading a Global Engineering Firm: Change, Culture & Sustainability","description":"Our guest on the Performance Leader podcast is Carole O\u2019Neil, ManagingPartner at Cundall, a global multi-disciplinary engineering practice delivering sustainable design projects in the built environment from 26 offices in locations across the UK and Ireland, EMENA and Asia Pacific.   Carole embarked on a career in Human Resources quite by chance, having completed a law degree at Oxford University and decided not to move into practice. Since then, she has worked in a variety of HR roles in professional services firms across the legal and built environment sectors. She spent most of her HR career as a generalist but developed a particular expertise and interest in the development of leadership capability.   In 2022, she was elected Managing Partner at Cundall. She is the first non-engineer to hold the position, and Cundall\u2019s first female Managing Partner.   Show notes (1m:30s) Carole's path into the MP role (3:26) Cundall as a people-focussed firm (6:27) How Carole sees high performance, and her high performance life outside work: powerlifting! (12:08) Rewarding different contributions and strengths (17:40) Maintaining culture through growth (19:27) Cundall's Zero Carbon Design 2030 goal (23:13) Linking transformational goals to individual contribution (24:30) The value of regular 1:1s, and how Cundall is evolving its approach (27:15) Carole's advice on having difficult conversations (28:50) Fostering collaboration in a diverse, global firm (31:57) Legacy at Cundall \u200d ","author_name":"Performance Leaders Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.performanceleader.com\/","html":"