Blog
Here you’ll find information about me, my work and the projects i’m involved in.
Categories
How Much Is Enough… For Later?
Planning for retirement!!!
Assuming (in coaching)
Its our greatest nemesis
Governance and Organisational Development
It’s a people thing
From basic brews to fourth wave thinking
Exploring coach learning through coffee
The Emotional Arc of Learning
ASRI is not just about cognition
If you are waiting for something
It won’t be for you.
Every touch is learning
It’s not a blog about football
Structured vs Fluid Working
Routine vs Chaos
What’s the Truth You Need to Hear
But No One Is Telling You?
Building a business without dopamine
I Need the Problem First
#100Club – Eco Power Health and Wellness Clinic
Where Science meets Wellness
Decom Week 2025
Learning, Alignment, and Action for a Shared Future
#100Club – Andy’s Man Club
Conversations on Men’s Mental Health
#100Club – Park Electrical
Born in the Northeast, wandering into Yorkshire
Education for Human Flourishing
Tha what?
Life never stands still
Time to evolve again…
When talking is more important than listening
What those voices tell you
Team Development, Cohesion and all that stuff
What truth are you living with?
Why am I here?
How far have I still to go?
Designing Learning – Don’t start with Outcomes
Begin with the melody
What do they not need to know…
Building learning by subtraction (not addition)
Third Space Working
Its not home, its not the office, it’s a different vibe…
How do you want learners to feel when they make a mistake?
The emotional experience of learning
Dyslexia and its impact on learning and working
It’s a processing thing!
What LnD can learn from the marketing world
The fear of flawless learning no one attends
ADHD and me (my understanding of it)
“it’s life Jim but not as we know it”
Human Performance and the RAF
Typhoons Rising
#DNBusinessTalks – John Rees (CEO DN Colleges Grp)
Finding my part in this
#DNBusinessTalks – Karen Beardsley (MD Unipart Rail – Retired)
Working in a mans world
#DNBusinessTalks – Alistair Maclean-Clark (CEO Lightforge Academy)
Appreciate the Journey
#DNBusinessTalks – Andrew Robson (CEO KUDOS-QA)
hit the bottom to rise again
The Learning and Development Cutlery Drawer
Who took all the spoons…
#DNBusinessTalks – Jon Whiteley (Founder ProAktive Risk Grp)
Stick to what you are good at
As much as I try, I’m unlikely to meet your needs
The neurodivergent learner(s)
Designing for Neurodiversity in Learning
Solve for one, extend to many
#DNBusinessTalks – Nik Springthorpe (CEO – One Call)
Promote from within, they give more
Infinite variations of neurocognitive functioning
Variation yet to be accepted and expected
#DNBusinessTalks – Gemma Peebles (Principal Harrison College)
Knocking on/down doors
#DNBusinessTalks – Dolly Agoro (Director at Motherline Legal Services)
Here is where you are
#DNBusinessTalks – Paul Clark (Director, one 3rd Owner)
Its only your ego that sits in your way
#DNBusinessTalks – Chinwe Russell (Artist and much more)
I’m an entrepreneur first and an artist second
#DNBusinessTalks – Adrian Sullivan (Owner – Pass Logistics)
One van and £1500 to £4.6million turnover in 5 years
Leadership, Development and Management
When guiding and coaching doesn’t work
Leadership – all you need is…
Confidence and Humility
Don’t be a Dick
And ‘confident-humility’
Business Growth and lead generation
Meaningful time online (30min a day)
To Live with Sacrifice
But with purpose
The Good Life
Its not a comparative thing
How Much is Enough
The equation and rationale
Putting yourself in places to be found
Be noticed, in a good way
Be Good, Do Good and Good will Happen
Trust in the proces
My training won’t solve your problem
and nor will anybody else’s
Forward – Being Successful Enough
Drafting the book intro
The Dishonest Argument
Echo chambers and truth seeking
Sense-making our own Learning
ASRI, gaining internal clarity
An Hour Well Spent with Janet Foster CEO
Leaving the Role, Lessons from her Journey
Tenente – Hold Fast
To Prevail
Networking
Bored of your own pitch
Psychological Safety
Its not a tool for your gain
Routine is the death of creativity
When what helps hinders