Welcome to my journal.
Get an insight into my day-to-day work and my perspective on key issues.
Farewell to the Queen's 'Reassuring Continuum'
I had the privilege of seeing HM The Queen just twice in my life…….. Two tiny moments in my life, yet hugely precious memories carefully packed and proudly carried in the suitcase of my life's journey. One woman, just two minutes, forty years apart. How strange that it feels so significant.
Or is it? She was after all the most famous person in the world.
Everything is Connected
I see the people with expertise of how a specific system is created and operates, of lived experience within that system, and of research and knowledge of that system. Such people must share their understandings with others to fully appreciate their connectedness, perspective and impact on each other. And of course, there is no reason the same individual people can't be in different systems: we all live our lives in a world in which all systems connect with us every day. The trick, as I see it, is to create opportunity for people to see what is.
A Letter to my 15 Year Old Self
Last month I was privileged to be the guest on Holly Tucker's podcast series: Conversations of Inspiration. Which, in 60 minutes, covered a range of subjects centred around business being the key to solving society's issues. Listen HERE.
For the episode I'd been asked to write a letter to my 15 year old self, which I found really hard not to write as though to my children: with the faux sage advice of a father who had, like us all, actually largely stumbled his way through from growing up to getting grey hairs. I've had kind comments about it, and requests to see it written down. So, I thought I'd bare my soul and share it in audio and in black and white here. Gulp.....
One Person Two Degrees and 30 Years of Perspective
In February I was humbled to be conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bristol. It was a surreal experience, getting robed up and entering the Great Hall to receive a degree exactly 30 years after I had first done so; and then giving a public lecture in the very building I attended lectures in, with my undergraduate textbooks and dreams.
