"Leadership: Caring for and Empowering your Team"
The President of Chartered Accountants Ireland Feargal McCormack delivered a lecture on the importance of caring for your staff and clients at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï on Tuesday 14 May 2019.
Managing Director of PKF-FPM Accountants and outgoing President of Chartered Accountants Ireland Feargal McCormack delivered a Chief Executives¡¯ Club Lecture at Queen¡¯s University recently entitled ¡®Leadership: Caring for and Empowering your Team¡¯.
During his speech, Dr McCormack emphasised the importance of caring for, helping and serving others in business. He stated that his role as a leader is to lead, mobilise and energise people, and to foster trust, diversity and inclusion amongst team members.
Dr McCormack founded PKF-FPM in 1991. Now operating out of 5 locations with over 120 highly trained specialists across the island of Ireland, the accountancy practice has won many national and regional awards and accolades.
A proud alumnus of Queens University, Dr McCormack graduated with an Economics honours degree in 1982 and successfully completed the postgraduate diploma in Accounting in 1983. In the academic year 1982/83 he became the inaugural President of the Queens University Accountancy Society.
He is a current member of the Chief Executives¡¯ Club at Queen¡¯s, and also sits on Queen¡¯s Management School¡¯s International Advisory Board.
On 26 September 2018, Dr McCormack was awarded Managing Partner of the year at the British Accountancy Awards 2018 in London, and was commended ¡°for going above and beyond by demonstrating the highest levels of innovation, business strategy and quality of service¡±.
Dr McCormack concludes his term as President of Chartered Accountants Ireland in June 2019.
Speaking at the event, Dr McCormack commented: ¡°As a Queen¡¯s graduate, it is a particular honour to be invited back to speak at the Chief Executives¡¯ Club. I¡¯ve chosen to talk about a topic that is very close to my heart ¨C caring for and empowering your team ¨C because I truly believe that it¡¯s up to leaders to set a caring ethos at the very highest levels and show their personal commitment to their teams in everything they do. This leads to happier, more highly-motivated staff, but also secures better outcomes for business.¡±
Following the lecture, Dr McCormack took part in a Question and Answer session with Wendy Galbraith, Head of Finance at Queen¡¯s University, discussing leadership challenges in today¡¯s changing climate.
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