
In 2020, when the UK was deeply divided over Brexit, David Pullan, a leadership consultant based in London, took some solace in a reassuring voice that he often heard on BBC radio explaining the financial repercussions of the situation with ease. “This man is good,” Pullan remembers thinking.
The voice belonged to Mark Carney, the then-governor of the Bank of England, who is now the prime minister of Canada, and navigating another crisis: A trade war with the U.S.