Change is one thing that is certain in lifeLike one of the Scottish regions is called fifeBut how do you go about managing the changeWhat plans can you put in place and arrangeToday I want you to look in the mirror and ask yourselfAm I still achieving or am I past it on the shelfDo…

Opportunistic Leadership For A Changing Landscape: Navigating the VAT hurdle As of January 2025, independent schools in the UK will face a significant financial challenge: the introduction of VAT on school fees. To continue offering students the very best education, this change will require schools to rethink their business models, leadership strategies, and approaches to…

Why Disrupt  Why normal change Fails There are many reasons why change / transformation fails to come about to advance a team and a business. Often the top reasons come from the leaders resisting change.  The Benefits of Disruption Why Use a Disruption Approach The main aim is to unearth those who don’t want to…

I am so proud to be part Trust Networking Group to make our first charitable donation of 2023, to Project Youth Cancer. As a ‘not-for-profit’ networking group, our membership fees accumulate in a pot which we then vote on how to allocate to local charities & causes. The work Project Youth Cancer do, struck a chord…

The start of 2022’s business year has been a month of giving so far and living the mantra “teamwork makes the dream work”! Being part of a not-for-profit Networking Group is an incredibly special and rewarding experience. Together we achieve far greater results for our community, and we get to do business in a much…

Having the impetus, courage, and determination to actually get moving towards our goals and dreams is often hard to get started. We all know that crash diets never last, so too, it is true, that trying to achieve our heartfelt desires, hopes and ambitions is nye on impossible often in one small step, attempt or…

Results from leaders during Pandemic uncertainty (Blackshaw Howell 2020 – 21) What category would you fit into right now? How would you assess your business, leaders, and teams’ productivity? Uncertainty hasn’t gone away, will it ever? As we push forward to cope with a new normal how do we develop our businesses, lead our people…

To mirror back your authenticity and vulnerability? Now is the time to transform and make the biggest changes you have ever made in your career & life coming out of lockdown to create your new normal. What do you really want to reveal and stop hiding?    IMPRESSIONS You want to make sure you are…

The road ahead can be straight and narrow or take you far? Time to shake things up and get GLOCAL?  I was born in Germany then returned and raised in the UK and love working in a business which regularly interacts with multiple countries around the globe. When I was growing up I was fascinated…

Is it time that you, your colleagues and business divisions and teams were more culturally aware and less ‘black and white’? A year later and who woud have thought on the UK paniversary of Covid  that we would still be in a pandemic. With the challenges that this still inevitably brings and no glimmer of…