Inside Aaron Hennessy’s Quietly Disciplined Reinvention of Douglas OHI
From a joint British and Omani venture to a regionally owned engineering force shaping some of the GCC’s most demanding infrastructure and energy programmes, Douglas OHI has spent the last decade rewriting what delivery means in a sector defined by pressure. Group Managing Director Aaron Hennessy speaks about discipline, integration, and the quiet decisions that have shaped the company’s most pivotal chapter yet
Some leaders you have to study to understand. Others, you simply recognise. Aaron Hennessy belongs firmly to the second category. There is a particular kind of authority you encounter in people who have led for the right reasons, and for long enough to stop trying to convince anyone of it. You see it in the way they listen rather than perform, in how they answer a difficult…
