How Dale Connor from Lendlease manages the weekly Brisbane to Sydney commute

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Dale Connor, CEO of Lendlease Australia, lives in Brisbane but spends four days a week in the property company’s Sydney office.

I really have two routines. I live in Brisbane I spend most of my time here in Sydney.When I’m in Sydney, it’s full on. I get up early, usually between 5am and 5.30. I used to work on a construction site, and you can’t get that out of your system.

From the hotel bed, the first thing to do is reach for the phone and check overnight emails and texts. We are a global organisation, so there’s always something from overnight. Being in Sydney four days a week, I try to put five days’ worth of Sydney work into four days. So I am very much trying to plan the week and maximise the amount of connection with the team.You need to have a very understanding family, especially a wife who looks after the house and the dogs and our daughter, not necessarily in that order, while I’m away.If there’s the opportunity to come a little bit later, I will, an opportunity to take my daughter to school on the way to the airport.

As part of the routine, it’s one suit for the week and three shirts. You’re wearing one on a Monday, so it’s three shirts. That’s all you need. A change of underwear and away you go.Sometimes you can get home at a reasonable hour. Most of the time it’s later. I leave here after a full day. Daylight saving the other way helps, but you’re still getting home at about 9 o’clock, sometimes 10 o’clock.We have lived all around the world.

 

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