Jon Enever is a Non-Executive Director at Gleeds and sits on the Group Board. His role centres on a critical question: are we fulfilling our commitments to our clients?
Acting as a mentor and advisor to our global client focussed teams, Jon provides strategic support to ensure that future generations and client champions have the insight and expertise to ensure that we always put our clients first and live and breathe our client-centric culture.
Jon joined Gleeds immediately after college, starting as a trainee Quantity Surveyor (QS). Despite initial uncertainty about his choice of career path, his curiosity about the industry's global reach and impact motivated him to not only learn but excel. His dedication saw him take on various roles within the global organisation, eventually guiding him to his current leadership position.
My advice to anyone joining Gleeds, or in the wider industry, would be to seize opportunities to work abroad. I worked in Paris in my early 20’s and it gave me opportunities I wouldn’t have had otherwise to work in many different parts of the world. I’m proud to work for Gleeds and now mentor many individuals in shaping their own career.
Jon leads our JV business, Perfect Circle, an industry-leading partnership providing advisory,
consultancy, professional and technical services across the broad spectrum of the public sector. In addition, he’s actively involved in the Gleeds Foundation and is the Global Business Ambassador for Switch Up a charity focussing on helping young people overcome challenges through mentoring, physical activity, counselling, education and employment.
What drives him is people - both colleagues and clients - who inspire and challenge him to inject positive changes into their lives. He holds a firm belief in the power of professional relationships built on trust and mutual respect and spends a significant amount of time ensuring relationships are nurtured and developed.