Welcome to the collection & collation of my public digital life! I’ve brought together my personal and professional social media and my articles to one place.
Feel free to look around, read an article or two, drop me a note, pencil in a meet up and buy a t-shirt!
I was so happy to chat to Ryan Roadkill who is one of my favourite artists & illustrator! I own t-shirts, pins, stickers, hats, pictures and books with his artwork. I also have a Porsche 911 bonnet ready to be adorned with a unique commission at some point post lockdown!
owards the end of ‘Lockdown 1.0’ in the UK, I wrote an article on Location Independent Working and concluded that:
“Could I work from home and never go to an office? I could probably do my job effectively but it wouldn't do my mental health any good!
Is the new way of working the right thing for society and planet earth? IMHO (one for the kidz): YES!!”
We’ve now been through various tiers lovingly known as Lockdown 1.1, 1.2, Christmas, Lockdown 2.0, Lockdown 2.1 ‘The Revenge of the Virus’ and now Lockdown 3.0 ‘The Rise of the Vaccine’.
I got together with Richard Bell to return to the topic and see what we thought now and whether my views still stood.
Nick Hussey who is a co-founder of FRAHM (who make awesome jackets by the way - I have 4 and counting), posted about how some recent changes in his ‘environment’ led to spikes in anxiety. In a sense he was chipping away at his tripod legs (thanks Nikita Gunnewegh!) and filling his anxiety buckets.
Just after Christmas, my great friend Mike O’Brien and I decided to record one of our usual weekly catch-ups! The brief was that I’d interview him and we need to try not to swear or go down too many esoteric rabbit holes!
We covered a bunch of stuff including:
Starting up his own company and growing to over 120 employees at the start of 2021
Anti sales culture
Cat cafes and entrepreneurship
The power of serendipity to grow business
Being a good human in a competitive marketplace
Building a good human culture and motivating a workforce during COVID19
Maintaining the start-up feel in a scale-up
Meeting while walking
Being an authentic leader
I spoke to the inspirational Nikita Gunnewegh about mental health including touching on her and my own experiences with mental health issues. We both hope that this video/podcast, albeit long, will help those experiencing mental health issues but also those who want to help people with mental health issues.
I had an idea to bring together a couple of friends to explore 'Resilience' holistically. Ben Bowers (instagram.com/iambenbowers & linkedin.com/in/benbowers) and Toby Kent (linkedin.com/in/tobykent1) bring personal experience and insights to Personal Resilience & Community Resilience respectively whereas I focus more on Operational & Organisational Resilience for corporates and the macro-economic impact.
Inspired by Simon Sinek’s TED talk on ‘Start With Why’, I tried to start with why for ‘Operational Resilience’ for a UK Retail bank. What’s the ‘Golden Circle’ of Why/How/What?
No mammoth post this time - just a video!
Everyone has an anxiety bucket. Sometimes it overflows. Sometimes it leads to lifechanging events.
When it comes to risk and controls and in some cases the techie and seemingly irrelevant spectre of cyber threats to individuals this really proves to be challenging. So many of us have been forced to 'click through' unmemorable training just to make sure we don't appear on the naughty list. So what's the value in this training if nobody takes key messages away?