Catherine Kennedy & Lily Murphy Her Next Step Episode 4

Hello and welcome to Her Next Step, the podcast where women in the public service talk about how their passion and their intuition led them to interesting and exciting career paths. We'll hear about the fears and challenges that could have held them back and about the internal and external supports that enabled them to take their next step. I'm Lily Murphy and I'm speaking to women whose stories will, I believe, inspire you to wonder what stepping stones would help you to take your next step. Catherine Kennedy is the apprenticeship manager at ATU Sligo for the insurance industry. Catherine could have had a career as a chef or a baker but for the intervention of her grandmother and she's here today to tell the story of the steps that she has taken that led to her current career. She's also gone to offer some advice for students and for leaders and managers in the public sector. Catherine Kennedy and you're very welcome to Her Next Step podcast. Delighted to have this opportunity to have a chat with you about your career and I suppose for our listeners it's very interesting for them to hear some of the choices that you've made, some of the unexpected twists that your career may have taken over the over your time to date. So thank you for joining us. Catherine if I were to have met your family when you were young and your peer group in National School in Achill I believe and said one person here will end up as the manager for the insurance apprenticeships in a national university would they have automatically assumed it would be you?