Ronan Carter

Case research Ronan Carter from Consulting to Wellbeing Entrepreneur After graduating from Nottingham University (Geography, 1st), I took the ‘typical’ route… Graduate entry to a big US administration-consultancy, paid heaps, made to feel essential despite the poor work and horrendous hours. Still, allowed me to work for 12 years in a couple of different massive consulting organisations, specialising in Supply Chain Management. My last position was managing the EMEA implementation of one of many world’s largest outsourcing offers. My last position with the outsourcing consultancy was complicated and full of politics. I thrive on challenge and wished to become involved in one thing more fulfilling â€" one thing I was passionate about. Myself and a great pal brainstormed such business ideas and after months got here up with nothing strong. My good friend is a brilliant-brilliant ‘thinker’ â€" critiquing every thought â€" and I’m a ‘do-er’. Thus, I was getting pissed off on the lack of motion. I stumbled across the Career Psychologist o n Escape The City. I loved the strategy of advising the way to get out of a profession ‘rut’ â€" one which I could clearly determine I was in; I wanted one thing different however I didn’t know the way to take action to get it or have the courage to do it myself. I spent hours doing the online questionnaires and learning the slides The Career Psychologist had on-line. I loved discovering out about myself and why I was making the choices â€" and procrastination â€" that I was. I loved studying about the science of why we take the actions â€" or inaction â€" that we do in our lives and careers. I reached out to Rob Archer to bounce a couple of concepts off him â€" should I or should I not quit my job and take a bounce into the world of startups. Rob was amazing. He had splendidly simple and pragmatic recommendation, most easily summarised as: “what's the worst that would occur when you made the move”. This gave me the boldness to cease pondering and start doing. I began to s earch for begin-up businesses which I admired and could see myself starting something similar to. I came across one, PleaseCycle, and approached the 2 founders. I discovered myself loving the idea and successfully de-risked beginning a enterprise by offering to join their business. I juggled this with my consulting day-job and finally received supplied a good equity stake and Directorship to take the enterprise to the following degree. I’ve now been with Yomp (we rebranded) for 2 years. We have set an organization up which incentivises workers in massive firms to get more healthy â€" by way of competitors and gamification delivered via technology and cellular apps. With clients such as Bloomberg and EDF Energy, we have rocketed within the final two years â€" went by way of a fund-elevating round, eight staff and now cash-flow positive. It’s hard work, stressful, however very rewarding. I love what I do â€" and it’s for myself. The future may be rather less certain than if I we re again in a big corporate, but that’s the enjoyable. Positive. Largely because of my work with Rob and the Career Psychologist materials / method, I really feel that even when things don’t work out with Yomp (small tech startups come and go), I’ve loved the experience. I’ve realized more about myself and enterprise in 2 years doing this than 12 years within the ‘massive company’ world. Rob helped me realise that if it does go south, what’s the worst that could occur…? Get one other job, one other adventure. BIG because of Rob & the staff at The Career Psychologist. © 2020 The Career Psychologist Website design and build by Pynk and Fluffy