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Dave Keir

Dave Keir, Head of Operations at Oxygen Conservation, scaling UK conservation estates after a career in heavy industry, nuclear and off-grid energy.

Oct 1, 2026

2:43
As you work with different, uh, professional perspectives, uh, and different groups, different entities, s- uh, shareholders, stakeholders, trustees, investors, team, um, do you find that different perspectives, um, do they help improve the outcome or do they sometimes make it more difficult?
3:03
Uh, I mean, for me, it's an improvement.
3:05
I like, uh, the diversity of thoughts, uh, across things.
3:09
I'm a big proponent for, of people having range and understanding where different, uh, thoughts and feelings come from.
3:16
I suppose the... what can be quite challenging is weighting those, uh, different opinions and diversity and where they, they, they come from.
3:22
I spend a lot of time, as you, as you've, uh, pointed out there, dealing with different stakeholders, uh, a- across our estates or local community groups, and it's, it's fantastic because sometimes you can get some really passionate in-depth knowledge, uh, from those areas that are gonna help turbocharge what we're trying to do.
3:41
Um, I always think about, we've got a, quite a, a couple of estates up in the, in the Cairngorms in Scotland, and for anyone that loves the environment knows that place is just a hive of, of specialists, whether it's, we've got one about person that's been looking at lichen for 30 years or, um, I'm on a, a WhatsApp group for people that are looking at beavers, uh, that have been reintroduced.

10 MINS LATER

14:29
... building natural capital, uh, what words of advice would you offer based on your experience and career to date?

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