Corporate Escapology
Many people have found more fulfilment, purpose and joy by leaving their corporate career and building a life that serves them better. Get inspired and build your confidence by listening to their stories.
Corporate Escapology
12. Meet Duncan Blake: Branded Chef - Corporate Escapology the Podcast
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Adam Forbes
The Corporate Escapology podcast is here to show you pathways that others have trodden to leave their corporate job and do something more fulfilling, purposeful and rewarding. Like Duncan is doing.
Duncan was bp’s head of brand; he worked for the company for more than thirty years and was both an extremely senior leader in one of the biggest companies of the world - and a deep specialist. Those two things don’t always go together in a corporate. I suspect it was one of the reasons both sides saw value in one another. But there came a time, in a recent restructure, that Duncan left the company and then left him wondering what to do next. Obvious pathways included consultancy, agency, another corporate brand role etc? But Duncan chose to follow a passion opening up “a second chapter” as he called it - as a chef. But of course, not just any old chef - Duncan’s brand experience is all about precision, consistency and perfection - in a way, it’s no surprise his cooking is just the same.
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