The world is today changing rapidly and this is affecting the world of business as never before. Globalisation, the Internet and emerging economies such as in India and China are bringing huge challenges to businesses in the UK and the western world. Organisations are...
People often ask me about how to train to become a coach etc. At one time, I used to immediately connect them with a couple of coaching schools. But now I tell them that what the world needs today is not more coaches or even more New Year resolutions to have more, do...
With Valentine’s Day approaching, it is time to turn our focus on just what is love and marriage. In the western world, more and more marriages end in divorce. At the same time, everyone continues to seek the “one”. But just what exactly are we all...
As a result of all the snow today around the UK, a number of schools closed for the day. Tomorrow, I was due to speak to deliver some workshops to around 300 pupils at my old school, over 20 years after leaving. But the weather has meant that the workshops have also...
This morning, London and most of the UK woke up to a gloriously beautiful, snow covered landscape. Later in the day, the heavy snow led to various transport problems around the country and also school closures as teachers couldn’t get into work. In a few cases, the...
Later this week, I will be delivering some workshops to around 300 pupils at my old school, over 20 years after leaving. In all those years, everything I have achieved and experienced, both in my personal and professional life, has its foundation in the few years I...
This evening I am lucky enough to be at a talk by Professor Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2004. Professor Maathai, an environmentalist and also Kenya’s deputy environment minister, was the first African woman and environmentalist to win the...
Don’t you just love Sunday mornings? To me, Sunday morning is the best part of the week. It is only a few years ago that Sunday trading was introduced after much resistance. Until then, the whole of Sunday used to have the same feeling and atmosphere as Sunday...
Yesterday, I visited my local supermarket for my weekly shopping trip. This is a great opportunity to meet new people and check out new products. The striking thing about supermarkets nowadays is just how much the product range has changed, even in just the last few...
Do you have a DREAM? On 28th August 1963, Dr Martin Luther King Jr presented one of the greatest speeches in the history of mankind. This speech and the freedom march that took place that day in Washington DC was the turning point in the civil rights movements, and...
