Meet Leanne, our Managing Director here at KUDO. Leanne brings with her more than 12 years of knowledge and expertise, more recently leading Natural Power’s Advisory & Analytics team prior to her current role as Managing Director at KUDO. We asked her some questions about herself and what led her to the role she’s in today.
How did you get into this industry?
After completing my undergraduate in Physics, I was keen to use my skills to work in the environmental sector.
I completed a PhD in Environmental Physics and was certain from that point onwards that renewables was where I wanted to spend my career. I then began my working life as a wind analyst and progressed from there.
What does a typical day look like?
No two days are the same. with KUDO still in the early stages as a company, the only constant in my days is change.
I get to wear many different hats, from the managing director to salesperson, I really enjoy the variety in my days.
What’s an after-work hobby of yours?
I have always enjoyed dancing, and I spend part of my weekend teaching dance at the “Ups and Downs Theatre Group” which is primarily for children and adults who have down syndrome. This is great fun and is entirely different to the rest of my working week.
In April this year, the KUDO team chose to volunteer at Ups & Downs by developing an app to help organise all the costumes used by the theatre group. If you’d like to read more about this, you can read about it at https://www.kudosoftware.com/post/hackathon
Alternatively, if you’d like to read more about Ups & Downs, further information can be found at https://upsanddownsntheatre.org
What is a fun fact about you?
I can lipread. My parents are deaf, so I have been brought up in an environment where watching peoples body language and lips for communication is easier than listening.
What’s the best career advice you have ever received?
The best career advice I got when I first started managing teams was ‘don’t be afraid to make a decision’.
The primary thing that stalls teams and hinders progress is indecision. If you are comfortable with the information you have presented in front of you, then choose a path forward. If you ultimately make the wrong decision, learn quickly, own the mistake and move on.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go and why?
South Georgia, I studied the imagery from the phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean, from remote sensing satellites whilst completing my PhD.
It has one of the richest ecosystems in the world so I would love to see it.
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