Executive Vice President & Office of the Chief Executive Officer, Fluor
Search every verified Joseph Brennan interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Joseph Brennan, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Fluor, has described the company as offering employees the opportunity to have "nine different careers or 10 different careers within a 32-year span." In a September 2024 video, Brennan said he has "flipped back and forth from operations into finance into different levels of finance" and that the company provides opportunities "if you want to take them." He also stated that he would not give his younger self different advice, saying he made mistakes and had successes "from a position of curiosity and wanting to learn more." Brennan has a background in architecture and construction technology, having produced instructional videos on using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Revit for building information modeling. In a 2022 symposium on the New York City subway map, he argued that the PATH line could be added to the MTA map and described the Vignelli map as "the worst subway map," stating it is "not even topologically correct." Earlier in his career, Brennan served as president and CEO of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, where he thanked Governor Ned Lamont for his leadership during the pandemic and emphasized the importance of public-private partnerships to address workforce challenges.
“When I talk about Fluor, I talk about the opportunity to have nine different careers or 10 different careers within a 32-year span. I've flipped back and forth from operations into finance into different levels of finance, different levels of operation, from running offices internationally to running offices domestical...”
“Fluor is a microcosm of 10 different careers working here, which I don't think I would have had the opportunity to get in other settings.”
“The company offers opportunities if you want to take them. I've made lifelong friends here; it's the people who obviously make the difference.”
“The ability to experience this company from multiple different angles with different responsibilities and different expectations is a really good way to round out yourself and your view of the business.”
“I wouldn't go back and tell myself anything different. Whatever mistakes I made and whatever successes I've had, I did it from a position of curiosity and wanting to learn more.”
“Folks are going to put you in situations, but it's incumbent upon them to make you successful as much as it is on you to make yourself successful in the company. So it's a contract when you get into these situations where you're stretched.”
“The journey is the fun part and the journey comes with a lot of hard work and the learning part of it. So no, I wouldn't tell that person anything; I would say just keep your passion and keep your desire to want to know more and you'll be fine.”
“I just want to start out real quick with a special thank you to Governor Lamont — this is our first large in-person gathering since the outbreak of the pandemic — and I want to publicly thank the governor for his unbelievable leadership over the last few years, particularly when it comes to the state's young people; he...”
“One of the most troubling or difficult decisions to make was what to do about schools, and the governor had a very thoughtful approach that really put the safety of our children first.”
“We also firmly believe that it really takes a public‑private partnership to do this — government can't do everything alone.”
“One of certainly one of the biggest challenges facing the business community over my career and probably a bigger problem now than it's ever been is that of finding qualified people to move into your available jobs.”
“I was talking to my good friend Don Droppo, president of Curtis Packaging, and he said the one reason I wanted to support the partnership is because I'm desperate to try to find people — and the partnership works so hard to keep kids off drugs and to arrange mentors to help them.”
“I want to thank the many corporate partners that are here today not only for your commitment of financial support but also your personal time — serving on the board, hosting events at your companies — and I just encourage more of you to do that because it's so desperately needed.”
“Cali Roland and the entire partnership team — you guys just are so committed to the mission of the organization; you avoided any slippage in serving the needs of your stakeholders during the pandemic and really rose up to find emerging needs and address them.”
“Investments in the partnership today I think really will pay huge dividends in the future as these young people that we're trying to support ultimately move into the workforce.”
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