This month James and Michelle speak to Grant Duncan about unf*cking careers.

With a career spanning both executive search and consumer media industries, Grant brings significant experience from these worlds of consumer media and content where he has worked with some of the world's biggest companies to build their senior teams. These are sectors that were disrupted early on by digital, so he has also developed expertise in advising organisations across all sectors on how to navigate the leadership challenges and opportunities of digital transformation.

Before joining Korn Ferry, Grant worked at a global search and leadership advisory firm where he led the U.K. TMT (Technology, Media and Telecommunications) and EMEA Digital Transformation Practices. Prior to working in executive search, he spent 25 years in the advertising industry, latterly as CEO of Publicis Groupe's U.K. operation.

Grant is the author of Looking Beyond the Car in Front, which guides both senior and mid-career business executives in taking a more assertive and strategic longer-term approach to career choices.

Grant is a Patron of the Royal Television Society and Fellow of both the Marketing Society and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.

Grant holds an MA from St Andrew's University and is a graduate of the INSEAD Advanced Management Programme.

In this episode we talk about:

• How we need to be more conscious about managing our careers and not having always to follow the obvious paths to success

• Not having to be good at everything and know all the things when you're a leader

• Trying to find work that is fulfilling and meaningful to you. 

Find Grant at his website -  grant-duncan.co.uk and get social with Grant on FaceBook, Twitter or Linkedin 

And - grab a copy of his book,  Looking Beyond the Car in Front, at all good bookstores!

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