Show Notes
This lively chat with Margaret E Ward covers her time from being a cub reporter in New York, through an award winning journalism career in Ireland with leading national and broadcast media to becoming founder and CEO of a company that is all about business leadership and team development. Her career which also includes serving on the boards of national organisations, writing three books and thousands of articles, provides many useful thoughts for those working on their career path or who have reached leadership roles.
A1 bias provokes an interesting discussion on this episode about how organisations today use AI in the recruitment process.
Margaret began her journalism career in New York where she says as a young 23/24 year old cub reporter she was trusted to tackle investigative stories. Her first being about political campaign donations. She learned quickly the value of trusted sources and this shaped her approach during her journalism career and now to AI.
The only member of her family born outside Ireland she came to Ireland 30 years ago to write the story of her grandmother who at the age of 14 had been interred during the Irish Civil War.
Like many of the guests on this podcast it took a major event in her life to lead to a significant change of career direction. In her case it was a family illness. Without that she says, she would probably never have left full-time journalism.
She continues to write a weekly column for the Irish Times and discussing her company Clear Eye leads the conversation to her strong views on the positives and negatives about leadership, communications and strategy.
Margaret has been a strong advocate for women in media and business throughout her career and on this podcast she articulates those views on the ability of woman to chair the boards and actively contribute to lead roles in any organisation.
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