Title: Lessons from Energy Transition Approaches, and Leading Change in Africa
Description:
In this episode, Steven Paul meets Lester Clarke, the COO of a key oil field and energy services company based in Africa. Lester is an accomplished leader who brings small company speed and agility coupled with large company discipline, rigour, and compliance. Lester brings diverse leadership and organisational skills and experience in complex environments in the energy industry across the globe and as well as in the Telecom Infrastructure industry in the African continent.
Africa has immense potential, and today we will hear from Lester Clark on his journey and his perspectives on
✅ Energy transitions and the methods used
✅ Leading in Africa, and the approaches towards driving cultural change in African businesses
Name: Lester Clark
Title: Group Chief Operating Officer
Organisation: Oilserv Limited
Bio : –
Being an accomplished C level leader who brings small company speed and agility coupled with large company discipline, rigor and compliance. I possess leadership and business management skills that I have developed from the ground up. The teams I have worked in have driven exponential business returns that have been recognised numerous times by industry.
Having begun my career as an engineer (complemented with an MBA), I have risen through successive management tiers, building upon my skills and experience and contributing real growth in complex and challenging industry environments.
I excel at building a proactive organisational culture with direction, purpose and grit. Maximising gross margins and improving operational efficiency through development and delivery of strategic market-driven business plans. With advanced leadership skills in both people and process and being adept at multinational communications I am highly adaptive to new environments and challenges.
