A distinction is often made between good managers and good leaders and, while Richard Pandohie exhibits excellent traits of both, he will be the first to tell you about his personal evolution from being a managerial style thinker to one who places more emphasis on leadership as a process involving less control.
Pandohie, who wears the dual hats of president of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) and chief executive officer of Seprod Limited, is an engineer by training, and notes that the discipline helped to shape his thought processes to being more analytic, systemic, and data-oriented. This approach to leadership has served him well and earned him many plaudits, not least from his alma mater, Calabar High.