5 minutes with … Sean Clemons at RLF

2021-01-22T06:00:00

The executive partner at consultants RLF changed career direction after spending a six-month sabbatical in Brazil. He wishes he could have helped to build the Large Hadron Collider

What has been your biggest career challenge to date?

Dealing with the impact of the first coronavirus lockdown on the business. It was an incredibly challenging time, figuring out how to get the entire business operating remotely, responding to the closure of sites, then how to deal with them reopening, dealing with the short-term drop in turnover.

The situation required immediate action rather than the traditional consideration of options. What I learnt is that you can enable significant change to the benefit of your business in a short period if you are decisive and stop worrying about “perfect”, which can always follow.

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