The end of an inspiring day. The six interns arrived from London and have been blown away with all that Yorkshire has to offer. The day started on a high with Helen Kettleborough, director of communications at Pace plc, leaders in digital TV technology. A real professional, Helen did a whistle stop tour through the [...]

I’ve been gardening this weekend, which I love, and it’s given me time to mull over the week. I found myself thinking about a recent article on Jill Berry, a headteacher, in which she said that women cannot have it all. Her point was that ‘there is no shame in stepping off the career ladder [...]

Sometimes the days you most dread are the most stimulating! Northern Ballet Theatre was offered a day on corporate governance from the Clore Leadership Foundation. The deal is that if you accept, the whole board absolutely HAS to take part in this. As a board member, I went along this morning thinking a whole day [...]

Today I have been putting the finishing touches to a really exciting project. When Heather McGregor came up to Yorkshire to speak at the northern CIPR conference recently, she mentioned an inspirational internship programme that her business is running. Taylor Bennett is a headhunter for the communications industry.  Increasingly they are asked to find more [...]

A number of clients have recently been mentioning variations on a theme. That in a recession you have to talk to your teams more than ever – even if there is nothing particularly new to say. Stephen Martin, chief exec of Clugston, a leading construction company, took part in the Channel 4 programme, Undercover Boss [...]

Scanning this morning’s papers, I see Tony Blair is believed to have been in discussions with Tesco to help them open offices in the Middle East. I do feel Blair is seriously missing some wise counsel around him – or totally ignoring it. Love him or hate him, he had built up a reasonably credible [...]