“Enabled team members to achieve the organisation goals and their own personal development goals”

“… I've really valued Zeek's proactiveness in trying to get things done differently at the Guardian - for example leading the discussions around the ways of working within Product, UX and engineering. That for me is the work we should be doing as leads and I really advocate us doing more of it.”

“Successfully promoted new ideas and projects with key stakeholders within the organisation”

“Provided concrete examples to set quality standards and guided the execution”

“Provided constructive and actionable feedback”

“I loved how he has inspired the team on the sponsorship project. He pushed them to get to the right place on the creative mock ups - he had a vision, presented it to [redacted] and then focused the team on getting there.“

“Zeek leads by example, setting a high bar. He then uses strong empathetic and people skills to encourage and influence. He is diplomatic and uses his diplomacy skills to iterate and evolve direction.”

”Participative leadership. You involve team members in the decision making and vision-setting process”

”Zeek is a very calm and reassuring leader. He is naturally approachable and creates and environment for a team to feel comfortable and relaxed which means everyone feels they can have their say and input. “

”Highly creative visionary, strong work ethic, calm in a crisis, people orientated, adaptable”

”Listening to different ideas and finding solutions which meet multiple and conflicting requirements “

“Rebuilding a team without actually being anointed acting head of department. Covering a tonne of work with about half capacity. Navigating being respectful to other senior team members while also trying to move things forward.”

“Kept his team together during the pandemic, quick to respond to fears and concerns.”

“Zeek has also done a really good job of building a team up again after a problematic period and having a strong idea of where the team should be going in terms of skillset and recruitment.”