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The development of people and organisations to deliver impact
If the future is looking tough, the wise are prepared.
Develop quality people in your team and your network.
Build your strategy and your tactical ability to deliver.
Working in small business, multinationals, not for profit and across the public sectors in very different places grants different perspectives. Such perspectives allows me to support you to achieve your full potential. Your potential – personally, professionally and in your organisation’s development.
I have achieved, with quality people in excellent teams, demonstrable results and impact. Working for any company, organisation or institution is always an education when working with the right mindset. It is this approach that is the foundation to achieving.
My own, personal, experiences have changed the way I work professionally.
Working with great business people in all types and sizes of company. Been held hostage twice and at the wrong end of guns. Blended negotiating with country leaders to listening to communities left without livelihoods. This rich breadth and depth of experience has created a blend of knowledge and skills I bring to your service so you and your business reach full potential
Work is Purposeful, Creative and Meaningful
Stillness can be Moving – The Friends’ House London
In this age where quotes abound as people endlessly trawl the internet, I am re-introducing myself to the rare pleasure of a few moments of stillness in an otherwise hustling and bustling London. Sitting in a small courtyard in the Quaker House on Euston Road, the...
Stability and Fragility – What Form for Future Governance
What Form for Future Governance? Cones of Sand or Sand Castles? Lessons from the Beach Stability and Fragility Some years ago, on a beach, making a programme for the BBC, Brian Cox, he of ‘Everything that can Happen does Happen’ fame, had a sand castle and a pile of...
Solutions or Product?
Shelly Palmer – Middle Management Errors Vendors Love Great set of lessons along the age old line of finding solutions rather than buying product. On specifications, I returned to Africa to work in the Rwanda Genocide crisis of 1994, millions of people displaced...
Social malaise and new age of inclusion
Gin, Religion and Social Media as the Opium of the Masses Societal malaise and challenges in new age of inclusion? Interestingly, two quotes stand out and then refer us back to many, many, more things said and often lost in pretentious rhetoric From...
Selfishness and Nairobi Traffic
We live, again, in times where we are expected to achieve for ourselves. But where is the reciprocity to make things better in an age of communal existence? The rains have continued; the heaviest in recorded history so put this in perspective:- the rains are heavy,...
Rwanda – from the depths of despair, to role model – The Silver Dollar Test
I went into Kigali on a US National Guard Hercules in August 1994, the genocide was still in progress, tens of thousands of souls separated from their Earthly lives. Chopped, hacked and butchered to death. Women abused in ways leaving them sometimes wishing for the...
Radical and Extremism
The New Zealand atrocity, following on the Kenyan attacks in January, highlight how we, all of us, continue to witness extremist violent actions. Sadly we now have another 50 dead atop of all the others directly and indirectly murdered in this or that cause. Add in...
Purpose and Meaning Part 2 – The Personal Aspects
Purpose and Meaning Part 2 – The Personal Aspects The Financial Times published a piece, https://rethink.ft.com/?play=society&utm_source=ft&utm_medium=editorial_backfill , the sad slow demise of social connectedness and responsibilities. The initial piece on...
Strategic Approach FOr Decent Work
The Pish Posh of Peeing Etiquette and Actions for Pissing or taking the Piss
The Pish Posh of Peeing Etiquette and Actions for Pissing or taking the Piss We guys have a thing about behaviour in urinals. Do we even call them this? Or perhaps toilets, restrooms, washrooms, bathrooms, choo, bog, loo and on and on. Maybe the most appropriate...