Welcome to my personal website. My passion is making valuable connections between people and ideas. I’m retained by several organizations to do exactly that and enjoy taking on special projects.
I’m based in the UK at the moment and hope you will be in touch if you think that I can help you in some way or if you think that we could work together. Please have a read about the sort of things I’m up to.
Up From The Ashes
Friday 3rd September 2010, 4:14pm
“Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray, Shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you’ll bumble even less! For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!” Chitty Chitty [...]
On The Move
Saturday 28th August 2010, 10:09am
“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.” Robert Frost Some people have an office which they go into every day. Others work from home. For more and more people, it’s neither of the above. From Starbucks [...]
Four Formats
Thursday 29th July 2010, 4:07pm
Sometimes a room above a pub is all that you need for an enjoyable event. It can help to include some guests, some drinks and some good conversation, I suppose… Sometimes though, it is fun to have a format to help people to connect or to spice things up. Here are four techniques which I’ve enjoyed using over the past [...]
Quotables
Tuesday 27th July 2010, 4:50pm
I’m enjoying this new site, Quotables, by the brilliant and award-winning Adam Gee at Channel 4, and the clever folks at Mint Digital. Arts Council England have supported their mission to enable people to share their favourite quotations online. In the words of Sir Winston Churchill; “It is a good thing for an uneducated man [...]
Exploring the Big Society
Tuesday 20th July 2010, 9:50pm
Here in the UK, there is much talk, led by our new Prime Minister David Cameron, about what he calls the “Big Society”. In his words; “It’s time for something different, something bold – something that doesn’t just pour money down the throat of wasteful, top-down government schemes. The Big Society is that something different [...]
