In this conversation, Ben speaks to Claire Donald, VP of Engineering at MOO.

Claire’s career trajectory has seen her work in the army, HP, and the civil service, as well as contracting, before joining her current organisation - all alongside balancing the demands of motherhood. She has a comprehensive knowledge of different working styles and cultures, and a refreshing honesty and openness about how to navigate these.

Ben and Claire's conversation touches on how motherhood has helped Claire in her own working life, as well as the challenges of taking a pay cut. She talks with candour about her experience of burnout, and about its causes and the signs that, in hindsight, showed she was suffering from it.

They discuss Claire’s own managerial toolkit, which is centred around generalism and empathy, as well as the future of workplace culture as the professional world emerges from the aftermath of the pandemic.