How strong is your sense of purpose? Andre Lovatt on going beyond the motivational poster.

If your home town is levelled by a terrible series of earthquakes, tearing buildings apart and taking countless lives, what would you do to help? What if you had some kind of knowledge, insight or skill that could help bring order to chaos, would you sit by idly or would you jump at the chance to do some good? This was exactly the situation faced by André Lovatt, todays guest on Creative Agency. In 2011, after more than a decade leading parts of the world’s most highly renowned civil engineering firm, Arup, he decided that he could not simply sit watching on the sidelines when his hometown of Christchurch was suffering. He packed his bags, said farewell to his team, and went home. André fits the bill perfectly for an engineer-slash-CEO. He’s someone who has the skills to create feats of human craft and ingenuity, yet also has the vision to decide which feats are worth striving for. He’s the perfect leader for the Christchurch Arts Centre, a place that sits at the crossroads of the city’s past and future. And André’s the first to admit that there’s a long way to go. The post How strong is your sense of purpose? Andre Lovatt on going beyond the motivational poster. appeared first on TKLR.