Terry Brown

“Writing a review for Terry is tricky, and if you read nothing else, you should have no hesitation in hiring and working with him, for two reasons: (1) Terry is a one-of-a-kind engineering leader. He prioritises team morale and efficiency over personal career growth and ambition. He isn't scared to have plenty of difficult conversations to grow the people around him (far too many managers shy away from this) but he's deeply empathetic, mindful of how engineers typically process and respond to feedback, and he ensures the growth element is magnified in every conversation. (2) He's such a fastidious and ardent adherent to the principles of servant leadership and selfless direction that he will almost certainly be self-deprecating in telling me that the things I attribute to him in this review are really just the positive outcomes of teams working together, and that he adds no value. While his position may not directly involve building product, he engineers teams for success, so they have the tools (emotional and practical), hierarchy and structure to enable them to thrive. Terry is known far and wide, even by people who have never met or worked with him – I heard "oh, you'll be working with Terry? You'll have so much fun" on numerous occasions before I started working with him, mostly from people with no direct experience working with him, but rather from second or third-degree connections who know him by reputation and influence. Terry curates a caring, friendly and empathetic, nurturing nature and is an effort multiplier across his workplace. He's an encyclopaedia of knowledge of all things management; no conversation with him is complete without one work or another being cited as good reading material (I wish I could read quick enough). His extensive network of like-minded individuals and in the community more generally enables him to tap and stay fresh with new ideas as required. You will enjoy working with Terry. I'm just disappointed I didn't get the chance to do so for longer.”

“If you want a happy, stable, and high-performing organisation, then hire Terry. I have had the pleasure of working with Terry twice now and he is one of the best humans I have ever worked with. Terry lives and breathes the kind of culture that many organisations dream of. He puts people first and understands that happy people are productive. Every organisation needs a Terry.”