Thrive Business Breakfast with Neil Brown Edinburgh Leisure

Thrive for Business are holding a Business Breakfast event next Tuesday 17 May at The Royal Scots Club.

One of the speakers is to be Director of Customer Operations with Edinburgh Leisure, Neil Brown

Name:    Neil Brown
Company: Edinburgh Leisure
Position: Director of Customer Operations

Where are you based?
Main office at Vantage Point, 3 Cultins Road, Edinburgh Park, Edinburgh, EH11 4DF

What do you like most about the city?
The city landscape and its tremendous views, many from Edinburgh Leisure sites

What do you like to do in your spare time?
Keep fit (gym & mountain bike) and supporting Killie
What was your first job?
First student summer job as a building site labourer
First permanent post as a Leisure Attendant at Magnum Leisure Centre in Irvine

Defining moment of your career?
Decision to switch careers from P.E. teaching to leisure management

Professional goals for the year ahead?
Expand our provision of services into local secondary schools to ensure City wide and integrated delivery of sports and physical activity services

And a successful reopening of the Royal Commonwealth Pool.

Personal goals for the year ahead?
Improve my level of fitness

What would you most like to be remembered for in your organisation?
The manner in which we involved staff, encouraged their own health, well-being and development and sense of enjoyment and job satisfaction.

Who in the business world would you most like to meet at a Thrive event? Why?
Councillor Jenny Dawe, the City of Edinburgh Council’s Leader to explain how Edinburgh Leisure could lead the way ahead in the achievement of ensuring their vision of being “The most active City in Europe by 2020”