Many of the most interesting people rarely have linear careers. They are the ones who bounce from country to country or sector to sector, building skills and contacts each time they migrate.  The kind of leaders who appear so supremely competent that an hour after meeting them that you would happily hand them the reins of a car-dealership, a film set or a lab.  Faye Walsh Drouillard, an American in Ireland, epitomises this zig-zag of career building blocks, resulting an experience-won confidence to take on anything. She moved to Ireland in 2014 when her husband, Vincent Drouillard, was appointed general…

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