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Ciarán Casey

Ciarán Casey

Irish leadership practitioner, coach, and author of "Leadership in Tune"; former CEO of media publisher Harmonia (Irish Tatler, Food & Wine)

Oct 21, 2026

9:38
you
9:38
know, I, quick synopsis, I worked as a programmer way back in the 1980s on IBM systems, which is a fantastic education and business because There wasn't office software.
9:53
You had to go out and talk to people and write programs to try and support what they were doing.
9:59
So you learned about every aspect of the business and things like payroll, finance systems, sales order processing, all that kind of stuff.
10:09
And that brought me into business operations.
10:11
I worked for eventually for Woodchester.
10:14
I headed up their IT function, moved into business operations and set up a transformation project.

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15:30
So was there ever excitement going back into employment or was just it had to happen full stop?
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And I get
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that.
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I mean, I understand that.
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I certainly felt in earlier in my career that that's where leadership sat.
14:10
But if we just delve a little bit deeper and think about that for a moment.
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And again, this is why leadership is such a unique role.
14:21
If I, as a leader, offer you direction or I offer you support, only if you accept that does leadership emerge.

7 MINS LATER

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Oh, and that's building that experience between the two, the relational piece.

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