Interview: Turner & Townsend's Patricia Moore talks to Building

By Joey Gardiner2019-01-18T06:00:00

Patricia Moore only meant to leave her native Scotland for a couple of years down south, but 24 years later she’s still in London – and has risen to become Turner & Townsend’s UK managing director. She tells Joey Gardiner the secrets of her own and her employer’s success. Photography ...

In March last year, Patricia Moore chalked up a little bit of history as the first woman to head consultant Turner & Townsend’s £250m-turnover UK business, when she was appointed managing director. In an industry where senior female executives are still the exception, this alone gets her noticed. But as a lively and determined Scot, Moore makes an impact for many other reasons besides.

“I always used to say, when other women asked me: use it as an advantage,” she says in the broad accent she has kept despite 24 years living and working in London. “If you’re female, with a Scottish accent, capable and confident in what you do, it’s actually an advantage rather than being one of many men. No client ever left the room and didn’t know who Patricia was.”

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