This working life: ‘To achieve anything, you must choose a challenge and step out of your comfort zone’

Giving people the opportunity to master a task or challenge and empowering them to make decisions emphasises independence, adaptability and trust

Dr Thorsten Giesecke, general manager of the commercial business for Janssen Sciences Ireland: ‘It can take a while to build trust, but not long to destroy it, so you need to be consistent.’ Picture: Jason Clarke

In brief

Dr Thorsten Giesecke is the general manager of the commercial business for Janssen Sciences Ireland UC, the pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson

In depth

Improving the health of people was always at the centre of my career. I spent ten years as an anaesthetist in hospitals in Germany and America and it was there that I realised I have a constant dissatisfaction that makes me want to change how the system works.