MD of AccentureSong Ireland ZaraFlynn15 talks to LeonieCorcoran about difficult conversations, active recovery, golden tickets and holding on to self-belief. career business confidence recovery women
Leonie CorcoranZara Flynn is managing director of Accenture Song Ireland. In this interview, written in collaboration with The Currency, she talks to Leonie Corcoran about difficult conversations, active recovery, golden tickets and holding on to self-belief
“I didn’t know how my boss would react; if he would still want me to take the lead on this new project. It was a big moment,” she recalls. Flash forward to when she completed her masters, in advertising of course, and she had less than a week off before starting with Rothco. “I finished on a Wednesday and started working for Rothco, then a boutique agency with 18 people, the following Monday. It was an amazing experience of just trying to figure everything out. We had a brilliant team of owners and it was such a learning environment. Every day was different and I moved up the ranks as we got bigger clients, bigger accounts.
Winner Zara Flynn with category sponsor Edel O'Leary, MBA Programme Director, Michael Smurfit Business School. Credit: Kieran HarnettFlynn has been involved in many innovative campaigns during her career, but a personal high is Say Lists. Inspired by a comment from a speech therapist, who is a sister of one of the creative directors, Flynn led the team who turned music into a universal speech therapy tool.
Tanya Grimson, Rachel Gallivan, Zara Flynn and Siobhan Corcoran at the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year 2023. Credit: Kieran HarnettFlynn also shares a personal tough time. “It was a few years after the kids were born, so in my mid-30s and I got lost. I started to lose all my confidence, it really was bad. I lost myself.
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