Dr. Steven Farmer, CEO, Alconex- Soft Skills, Delivering Hard Results

About this episode

Dr. Steven Farmer discusses the integration of soft skills and hard results in leadership.

In this episode of Leadership Bites, Guy Bloom sits down with Dr Steven Farmer DBA MPhil MBA, Chief Executive Officer of Alconex Infrastructure and Solutions Ltd, author of Soft Skills, Hard Numbers. Steve leads a multi utilities business delivering gas, water and electric connections to homes, while expanding into energy transition work across data centres, battery energy storage and solar. Steve shares a straight talking leadership philosophy that blends soft skills with hard numbers....

People in this episode

Host: Guy Bloom

Guest: Dr Steven Farmer

Topics covered

• leadership
• soft skills
• hard results
• business management
• energy transition

Keywords

• leadership philosophy
• soft skills
• hard numbers
• utilities business
• energy transition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Alconex Infrastructure and Solutions Ltd

Books & works: Soft Skills, Hard Numbers

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