Welcome to my journal.
Get an insight into my day-to-day work and my perspective on key issues.
Everything is Connected
I see the people with expertise of how a specific system is created and operates, of lived experience within that system, and of research and knowledge of that system. Such people must share their understandings with others to fully appreciate their connectedness, perspective and impact on each other. And of course, there is no reason the same individual people can't be in different systems: we all live our lives in a world in which all systems connect with us every day. The trick, as I see it, is to create opportunity for people to see what is.
A Letter to my 15 Year Old Self
Last month I was privileged to be the guest on Holly Tucker's podcast series: Conversations of Inspiration. Which, in 60 minutes, covered a range of subjects centred around business being the key to solving society's issues. Listen HERE.
For the episode I'd been asked to write a letter to my 15 year old self, which I found really hard not to write as though to my children: with the faux sage advice of a father who had, like us all, actually largely stumbled his way through from growing up to getting grey hairs. I've had kind comments about it, and requests to see it written down. So, I thought I'd bare my soul and share it in audio and in black and white here. Gulp.....
