Listen "Martin Nolan on helping people take their blinkers off to further their careers"
Episode Synopsis
In this episode of Lessons I Learned in Law Scott Brown speaks Martin Nolan. As General Counsel at Skyscanner, Martin is responsible for Skyscanner’s Legal and Public & Regulatory Affairs teams and also acts as Company Secretary to Skyscanner’s group companies. Prior to moving in-house, Martin spent ten years working as a corporate lawyer in private practice, specialising in corporate finance, M&A and Private Equity.Martin reveals some of the lessons he learned in law including:· Be your authentic self. Trying to be someone else at work will be exhausting!· Take your blinkers off. Your legal skills are extremely transferrable so don’t look exclusively at what you’re doing now to inform your next career choices. · Fail fast, fail forward. If you don’t ever make mistakes, you’re playing it too safe!Martin is two years in to a mammoth home renovation project. Hear how that’s progressing!Presented by Scott Brown of Heriot Brown Legal Recruitment. Follow Heriot Brown:Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram
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