Somewhere, in the no man’s land between Christmas and New Year, feels like a good time to look back on 2011… Overall, I have been incredibly lucky to find two business partners (Tim Reading and Ed Sellwood) who are fun, rewarding to work with and (crucially), massively more organised then I am. We set up CoSpA (the Co-Sponsorship Agency) last summer …
I’m fascinated by the idea of ‘Hidden Convenors’. People or organisations with an opportunity to bring people together, yet who for some reason do not. Take for example a couple of increasingly well-known business people I’ve seen many times this year. One sold their business a year or two ago and spends a great deal of …
The Leeds University Careers Fair of 1999 was a pretty depressing place. It was for me anyway. For a start, you left with the distinct impression that the vast majority of British companies were either large or very large. The reality, that 99.9% are NOT large, was not even hinted at. Secondly, the truth that dared not …
The Queen told me recently that I really must stop name-dropping. She didn’t really. In fact, she wasn’t even at home when I visited Buckingham Palace. You’ll have to forgive me, reader, because it’s going to be difficult to get through this post without dropping the odd clanger. Then again, if you can’t do that …
Ten years ago I was at Leeds University, starting my first business. Little did I know that I would end up dropping out and moving to London. Also unpredictable was just how many great people I would meet along the way. Amongst the first people we persuaded to work with us (organising alternative careers events) were …