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The People and Organisations Behind the Conversations

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Across 2025, I’ve spoken with leaders working at the intersection of technology, people, infrastructure and purpose. What’s stayed with me isn’t just what they’re building, but how they’re approaching it. In cybersecurity, conversations with Riverside Court Consulting Ltd and Bryan Altimas reframed how I think about security altogether. Less as a technical safeguard, more as […]

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Building a Movement, One Book at a Time

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Another brilliant conversation last week, this time with Liberty Venn, the founder of the Children’s Book Project’s. Within minutes it becomes clear why this charity has grown into one of the most effective literacy movements in the country. Liberty combines purpose with practicality. She is building something simple, scalable and profoundly needed. The challenge she

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Leadership Resilience

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For most of my career, I thought resilience was about pushing through.Absorbing more. Coping quietly. Getting on with things because that’s what the role demanded. And if I’m honest, that belief shaped how I led my teams too. I valued people who could “power on”.I praised those who took on more.I treated resilience as stamina,

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AI Investment Is Surging, but the Real Story Lies in What Could Slow It Down

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AI investment is rising at extraordinary speed. Anyone watching the sector closely will have seen the same pattern across forecasts from Gartner, IDC, Deloitte and others. The world is not easing into the AI era. It is sprinting. Gartner expects global spending on AI technologies to reach roughly one point five trillion dollars in 2025.

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Smarter Recruitment. Stronger Schools

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Over recent week’s I have spent time speaking with Hermione Thomas, the founder of TeachBack, and it is clear she has built something valuable in the education space. A solution that is practical, fair, and genuinely needed. Teacher recruitment in the UK remains one of the hardest operational challenges for school leaders. Agency fees can

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Building Progress Through Policy

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Another great conversation yesterday, this time with Clare Dobson from The Policy Key. I’ve been catching up with Clare over the past year and have been genuinely impressed by the pace and focus she’s built around net zero and cyber security. Recently she joined a panel at the The Labour Party Conference fringe, bringing real-world

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22 Years in London – A St. Patrick’s Day to Remember

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St. Patrick’s Day is about tradition, but for me, it’s also about transformation.22 years ago, I stepped off a plane in London with no master plan—just an instinct that this city would shape my career. And it did. Since then, I’ve built my career helping businesses transform too—scaling brands, optimising growth, and making marketing work

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Passionate People Who Make a Difference

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Working with Passionate People Who Make a Difference When I joined TalkTalk, I quickly realised I had stepped into a company with an identity crisis. On my first day, I met people who introduced themselves as coming from Carphone Warehouse (Now Currys plc), Tiscali, Onetel, and AOL. Yet, I thought I’d joined TalkTalk. What followed

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