Q: Are you where you’ve always wanted to be?
A: Yes, I always had aspirations to manage a department, to help to shape and mould the lives of people within a team. I of course want to strive for more and maybe managing the organisation, but at the moment, I am satisfied with where I am. I have a great team of people that I manage and I just want to see them develop to their true potential and be very successful in their careers.
Q: What is your biggest professional challenge?
A: In these tough economic times, it would be to achieve the monthly budgeted targets. This requires a herculean effort, many days and nights of planning and executing strategies that seek to assist clients in reaching their profit margins, but at the same time assisting the company in achieving its targets.
Q: What is your biggest life challenge?
A: Having a balance between work and family. I am never satisfied until I can complete a task and sometimes this requires work to be done at home, and this has a tendency to run into the time I would normally spend with my wife, so I have to work on managing this more efficiently.
Q: When you look to the future what do you see?
A: I see a lot of untapped opportunities for Barbados in the area of arts and culture, and I believe that once those who have the power to make things happen can do so, it will go a long way towards the further development of this country. However, having said that, those with the talent must also have a passion for the area that they are involved in and seek to create avenues for themselves.
Q: What is your favourite pastime?
A: I love theatre and playing volleyball. I believe these two disciplines have helped to shape the way I am today. Both require a lot of hard work and dedication in order that you can be at the top of your game.
Q: What is your favourite meal?
A: I am a big fan of fish, be it marlin, cod fish, dolphin, red snapper, just add some rice and steamed vegetables and I am hooked.
Q: On Saturday nights where are you likely to be?
A: If not on the volleyball court playing for Deacons, or on a stage portraying some character that is totally removed from any characteristics of my own, I am relaxing with my wife, either at an event or at home watching a movie.
Q: What upsets you the most?
A: When people do not communicate, especially in the work environment. Sometimes an issue can be easily avoided if only people communicated, because on the odd occasion if there is a backlash, it leaves those people involved in a damaged relationship. It is hard to make new relationships, but sometimes even harder to mend broken ones.
Q: What is your guiding philosophy?
A: Never settle for second best. It may be my Achilles heel, but no one celebrates second place as much as first place. So my philosophy is be the best that I can be and make my contribution count for my personal success and that of my team.
Q: If you had the chance to manage Barbados for a day what would you do?
A: I would start with our young people, because they are the future of this country. I would seek to implement more educational programmes especially in the area of information technology. I would locate areas that can be used as theatre spaces to develop our emerging talented young people in the area of drama, dance and music as well as the visual arts.
We have to create a cultural hub, so that visitors and locals can have access to wholesome activities. The film industry also needs to be developed to give more young people an avenue to express their talents and to position Barbados as a country which is not only dependent on sun, sand and sea to drive tourists to our shores.
