I have something to admit; I’m a walking contradiction: My work is all about EQ and emotional intelligence but I very rarely display emotion in my everyday life; my girlfriend calls me out on it all the time. “How can you go into companies and advise them on emotional intelligence…

I could easily make the title of this blog “Why I shouldn’t cut my own hair” but I’ve been using the phrase “poorly-tasting hummus doesn’t know how to fix itself ” a lot recently [I should admit it’s a play on a quote I saw about another food product but…

It all started 3 weeks back; it was a pretty typical Monday morning and having just completed sending my morning LinkedIn voice notes over a cup of coffee in my Shiageto mug (you can see a glimpse of it in the photo above), I was ready to check my emails…

Last week I had the pleasure of attending 5 different in-person networking events; a couple were conferences, one was a charity event, one was a lecture and one was a pure old-fashioned meet new-people with no other agenda. This was the most in-person networking I’d done in a while; throw…

I’ll be honest, I’m a pretty terrible golfer. The majority of the time I struggle to get the ball to go where I want, I get angry with myself for a terrible shot and I generally feel bad for the person/people that I am playing with. The main reasons that…

Last week I had a fascinating experience where I had 2 business development meetings face-to-face, one after the over. Now, that’s not very fascinating I hear you say! What was interesting was that the first was with someone I had known for 15 years and the second was someone I…

8 years ago I ran my one and only ultramarathon; it was something that consumed my life with training 6 days a week (often twice a day), controlled meals at set times, no alcohol, early to bed every night and a whole host of other things that make me now…

A lot has happened since last I blogged; namely I got Covid and it turns out that it really does knock you off your feet (who would have guessed???). Whilst I do love to channel the inner introvert in me to be a fan of “alone time”; I have to…

The weather in the UK might not have got the memo but it is officially Spring time and that can only mean one thing… no, not the blossoming of daffodils…I’m talking about job promotion announcements. In the last week my LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook feeds have been flooded with people…