ThoughtLeaders4 FIRE Magazine • ISSUE 9
60-SECONDS WITH: NICOLA BOULTON PARTNER PCB BYRNE
Q A
Q A
Q
A
Q
A
hat do you like most W about your job? It lets me occupy myself with interesting and difficult questions. hat would you be doing W if you weren’t in this profession? Hunting for interesting and difficult problems to occupy me. hat’s the strangest, W most exciting thing you have done in your career? Terrifying rather than exciting: as an outdoor clerk in the 90s successfully escaping a very large, angry, dog when serving a witness summons. hat has been the best W piece of advice you have been given in your career? Never apologise, never explain, get the job done and let them howl.
Q A
Q A Q A Q
A Q A
hat is the most W significant trend in your practice today? Rising uncertainty due to war, sanctions and economic instability.
Q
hat personality trait do W you most attribute to your success? Persistence
Q
ho has been your W biggest role model in the industry? I don’t hold with role models. hat is something you W think everyone should do at least once in their lives? Visit Cuba.
A
A
Q
A
hat is a book you think W everyone should read and why? To Kill a Mocking Bird, because courage isn’t a man with a gun. hat would be your W superpower and why? Speaking all languages. It would give me more difficult and interesting questions. s a speaker at FIRE A International, what are you most looking forward to at the event? A good gossip.
hat is the one thing W you could not live without? Sleep, although I still try to do without from time to time.
59
