This Working Life: ‘You get the best from people when they feel involved’

Gaining the trust and support of the people on your team is important, and doing so comes down to listening to them, according to Smith & Williamson’s Paul Wyse

Paul Wyse, managing director of Smith & Williamson: ‘If there’s an issue, you need to acknowledge it and resolve it. Otherwise nothing will change.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips

In brief:

Paul Wyse is managing director of professional services in Ireland at Smith & Williamson. Smith & Williamson is an accountancy and professional services firm with two offices in Dublin, one in Belfast and eight more in England, Scotland and the Channel Islands. The firm employs 120 people in Ireland and 1,800 across all operations following its recent merger with Tilney in Britain. Wyse began his career in 1980 as a trainee accountant with ...