Olukemi Ogunyemi is proudly black and Scottish. She was a best book author and award winner in 2022 for her memoirs of a brown girl living in Scotland. Brown Girl in the Ring, a beautifully crafted...

Culture is “the way we do things round here”.    What does our culture tell us about how we see people?  What does it tell us about our values and our purpose? What ever emerges as our culture will...

“Look for the bare necessities.  The bare necessities of life will come to you” (The Jungle Book)   Is there wifi, tops the list of questions when we are away from home.   Wifi is often described as a...

               Are you dreaming of a different direction or a mixture of what you usually do andsomething quite new? Innovation Governance comes to mind. I am reminded of the words of Ellen DeGeneres...

Though born in London, I grew up in Belfast.  We spent holidays in Atrium and also the Republic of Ireland.  This year I decided to go back to Ireland to race my roots.  I did not quite know what to...

Coaching is one of the aspects of my work that I absolutely love. An effective coach steps back and the coachee takes centre stage. My joy comes when I see him or her gain more clarity, achieve their...

I confess sometimes I watch mindless reality TV programmes such as the Apprentice.  When I read that two apprentices rivals traded insults after cat fights, were at each other’s throats, had a...

  Effective governance is achieved by taking a long term view – this can be quite challenging in the face of uncertainty about the future. The temptation can be to make choices based on limited...

I love the line in Pirates of the Caribbean where one of the actors alluded to policies that needed to be adhered to by the Pirates. The other Pirate retorted, ‘they are not so much policies; they are...