Darren founded Recro Vida in October 2021, achieving a lifelong goal of owning his own business. Darren has been working in Environment & Sustainability roles for over a decade including; internationally & for high end clients such as Meta, NSW Government, Microsoft, Stanhope & many more.
Darren has both professional & personal experience with relation to the three core tenets which Recro Vida is founded upon: Sustainability, Personal Development & Wellbeing. This includes professional & life experience as well as academic & professional qualifications. He is an excellent communicator, networker & a diligent professional operator.
Professional Experience
Darren has worked in corporate sustainability & project management for over a decade. His experience spans from small construction fit out to £1 Billion pound infrastructure delivery. Darren has worked in the UK, Holland, Ireland & Australia. Projects include HMNB Devonport (largest Navy base in Western Europe), Tottenham Hotspur FC Stadium, The Tate Modern, Guildford Station Redevelopment, BBC television centre, Meta Data center to list just a few.
Lived Experience
Darren has a wealth of life experience, from living abroad in Australia, solo backpacking around the world for two years, to recovering from a near fatal road traffic accident by learning to walk again & retraining his brain. Additonally, Darren has been exposed to a significant number of life events & alternative lifestyles within his wider network, including disability, alcoholism, suicide, mental health issues & the LGBTQA+ network.
Network Experience
Darren has accrued a network of high performing people around the world. These span across multiple industries & hail from all walks of life. Darren often draws upon this network to sub-consult in for specific topics or client requests, keeping one point of contact for his clients whilst delivering multiple consultancy services.
Currently, additional staff are employed on a contract basis, to aid the competitive costing & targeted resource specialism for each individual project. A dozen or so consultants, contractors, interns & volunteers have worked for Recro Vida in the past.
Tara is our new Project Manager. She will be helping behind the scenes with marketing, social media, admin and training.
Tara has over 15 years experience working in a Social Work setting so will also be helping organise and delivering our Personal Development and Wellbeing training.
Tara is incredibly passionate about staff wellbeing and having managed multiple teams in high stress environments, she knows all the tricks to ensure good quality working environments leading to better staff retention and higher quality work outputs.
Who we are, what we are about and what our vision of the future is as a sustainability, wellbeing & personal development Nano SME Consultancy.
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