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Our Values in Action

06/10/2026 • 7 min

The values that define Calor aren't just a list of words in an employee handbook.

They appear in the stories people choose to tell – stories of trusting others, helping colleagues succeed, staying curious and always thinking about the wider team.
Over the past year, many of our Calor team have spoken about their careers, their teams and the work they do.

No one spoke directly about company values, but they did talk about people: the colleague who helped them learn, the manager who trusted them, the team that pulled together during difficult periods and the opportunities that helped them grow.

Our Values in Action series brings together voices from across Calor to explore how the culture of the business shows up in the everyday decisions people make and the way they work with each other.

We start with Trust – what better place!

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Our Values in Action: Trust people

Trust can mean very different things depending on where you sit in a business.

For Carol Ring, formerly Head of Bulk Transformation and now Chief Operating Officer of Calor Ireland, it's about giving experienced people the space to do their jobs. She places deep trust in her managers, encouraging them to own decisions and push ideas into action. “I know how good they are,” she says. “And I know that everything they’re doing is for the customer, for the company.”

Glory Cáceres, Bulk Transformation Project Lead spoke to us with warmth about a team she describes as open, accepting, and built on trust. “It feels like a family. Everyone is so different, and that’s what makes it work.”

And for Dave O'Connor, trust has been built over decades on the road. After more than 30 years delivering gas across rural Ireland, he recalls the relationships he developed with customers who knew he would arrive and get the job done, summing it up in one perfect image.

"There'd be a key left out for you under a stone."

Three very different relationships: between a leader and their team, an organisation and its people, and Calor and its customers.

But the principle remains the same.

Trust people with responsibility, give them the freedom to deliver, and you’ll earn that same trust in return.

Read more stories from the people behind Calor here. 

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Our Values in Action: Support when it matters

You learn a lot about a workplace when someone's circumstances change.

Support doesn’t always show up as a formal policy or programme. Often, it's simply a matter of recognising what somebody needs at a particular moment and finding a way to help.

When Rosalie joined Calor shortly after her maternity leave, she was navigating a new job, a new country and life with a young baby. Calor’s HR team connected her with other working mothers in the business to talk to over coffee, connecting her with people she could ask about everything from childcare to settling into life in Ireland.

"I don't think I could have picked a better place to transition with a young child."

In Paloma's experience, that support showed up in a different way. As she built her career in Calor's Finance team, becoming a mother didn't mean putting that progression on hold. She was promoted while on maternity leave.

Sarah also reflected on the importance of recognising the lives behind the rota. “The culture we have is more like a family. These guys work out of hours and do on-call shifts. Partners are impacted. I know that firsthand.” She describes her team as close-knit, with a genuine appreciation for the commitments and responsibilities people carry outside of work.

Read more stories from the people behind Calor here. 

Our Values in Action: What makes a good leader?

At Calor, leadership is about enabling people to thrive, grow and achieve their full potential.

Perry Galbraith joined Calor at 19 as a filling plant operative. Twenty-six years and seven promotions later, he's Head of Cylinder Operations for Ireland. Looking back, he credits the people who saw his potential, "Supervisors and managers saw something and gave me opportunities along the way."

Carol Ring's career tells a similar story. Calor supported her through a management degree and a master’s as she progressed through the business. Today, she’s the Chief Operating Officer of Calor Ireland, but in her former role as Head of Bulk Transformation, she was laser-focused on building a strong team culture. “Noone sees how hard the team have to work to keep things just normal,” she told us. “We will be a team,” she told them. “We will support each other. We will have each other’s backs,” she says.

This was something echoed by one of Carol’s team members, Glory Cáceres who credited strong, supportive leaders with creating a safe place for Calor’s people to learn and grow - leaders who would “push you but also support you.”

And that trust doesn't have to mean stepping away entirely. For Nora in HR, good leadership combines autonomy with clear expectations. She told us, "As long as the job is done, you're not micromanaged."

Different roles and different stages of a career, but so often the same pattern. Give people opportunities. Trust them with responsibility. Create space for them to grow.

Perry says there is a piece of every manager he's worked with in the way he manages today. And maybe that's one of the best measures of a good leader: what the people around them carry forward.

While all these stories may come from different teams, roles and experiences, they share something important, the values that shape Calor are brought to life by our people every day. In the choices they make, the support they give and the trust they build, our values are more than words, they're the way we work.

Read more stories from the people behind Calor here. 

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