Thermal X

In this week’s podcast #152, Ken Forster interviews Sean Clay, Group Director of Spirax-Sarco Engineering, an FTSE-100 world-leader in thermal energy management, pumping, and fluid path technologies.

Sean has been leading global industrial technology companies for over 20 years, including Honeywell's global sensors and devices division, where he was VP and GM of industrial safety, and later as President of the $1.2 billion European division of the safety and productivity solutions group. He's a proven people and growth-oriented leader with deep experience building and scaling high-performance teams and organizations, building resilient businesses for growth and sustainability, and leading large-scale digital industrial transformations.

Spirax-Sarco Engineering has a commitment to achieve net zero-emission (scopes 1 and 2) by 2030 and by 2025, a 10% biodiversity net gain and zero waste to landfill. Learn how their digital OPEX strategy will help them to achieve this ambitious goal

Some of the discussion points during this interview were:

• What are some of the key trends you saw emerging over your leadership in digital industry?
• What was the inspiration for your early work at Honeywell at the intersection of IoT, analytics, and connected and passive safety technologies?
• Tell us a bit about your digital leadership journey at Spirax-Sarco Engineering.
• How are your digital transformation goals supporting Spirax-Sarco Engineering's ESG (Environment, Sustainability, and Governance) goals?
• How do you leverage the innovation ecosystem inside and outside your company?

Sean insight's include reference to three books:

For inspiration, Sean looks to leading indicators and potential in a number of areas. He is mainly focused on leapfrog disruption. As William Gibson said, "The future's already here. It's just not evenly distributed."

"Hacking Digital" by Michael Wade and Didier Bonnie
(due to be released in September).

 "Riding the Waves of Culture" by Fons Trompenaars,

Particularly for global businesses. It addresses the point of the end, for digital and physical per centralized and the central.

"What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture" by Ben Horvitz.

Connect with Sean Clay via LinkedIn!

About the company:

Spirax-Sarco Engineering is made up of three world-leading businesses, each one combining expert knowledge with industry-leading products. Spirax-Sacro and Gestra are world leaders in the control and management of steam. Chromalox, and Thermocoax, offer industry-leading, expert electric thermal solutions. Watson-Marlow deliver peristaltic and niche pumps and associated fluid path technologies.