Yesterday I met with two people I am most accountable to professionally and personally. We spent the day brainstorming the next steps of our professional lives and in turn how they effect us personally too. As part of this process I revisited a fear that I have found in many of the clients that I [...]
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Work | Are You Afraid of Rejection?
Posted in Work Stuff on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stuff | Beautiful Wedding Video
Posted in Creative Stuff, tagged Dance, JK wedding entrance, wedding on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Culture | Police, Professors and Picket Fences
Posted in Opinion, tagged Prof Henry Louis Gates, Race, Racial Profiling, Sgt James Crowley, Skip Gates on July 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Prominent US black professor Prof Gates is arrested for causing a disturbance. Arresting officer Police Sgt. James Crowley refuses to apologise. Media jumps on to what is potentially a race row. Oh and Obama makes a comment too something to do with stupidity.
OK now I would love to be controversial on this and lean to [...]
Education | Tory but Troubled?
Posted in Opinion, tagged Conservatives, Education, michael gove, policy exchange, rsa, STEM, tory on July 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I recently had the pleasure of meeting a Tory politician to talk about education in the country. A conversation which frankly went one direction when I realised that his view of remedying the system of some of our low performing schools was quite myopic. I decided to follow this up some more by viewing Michael [...]
Youth | You’re Worth It!
Posted in Opinion on July 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last week a delivered a couple speeches for year 10 students in London and Hertfordshire. The motivational speeches entitled “You’re Worth It” was loosely based on the slogan for L’Oreal products and a reminder to the teenagers listening that although sometimes life sucks they are worth it.
I am humbled when after an hour of speaking [...]
Stuff | Cheb Mami & Sting – Desert Rose
Posted in Creative Stuff, tagged Cheb Mami, Desert Rose, Rai, Sting on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my fave videos/songs. Ever.
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