This Working Life: ‘If it wasn’t for my daughter, I might never have found real career purpose’

CEO and co-founder of Together Academy, Therese Coveney, tells Mary McCarthy about helping people with Down syndrome live meaningful lives through work

Therese Coveney

In conversation with Mary McCarthy

I’m 52 and while I always enjoyed my jobs, I only found my ambition and striving at work after 45.

Maybe if my daughter April had never come along 14 years ago, I would never have found a real career purpose. I did not find it when she was born, but I did find I had a protective nature, a questioning side.

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