03/2026 Morocco leadership team journey
We took a group of approximately 120 leaders from an exceptionally successful British company to Morocco in March. There they went through our five-day programme of personal and leadership transformation. My role, as on the 50+ such journeys I’ve been involved with over the past 15 years, was to observe, record, interview, film and generally gather as much content as possible to help the participants get the most out of the process.
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See below for stuff I've done (relatively) recently. For more general info, follow this link.
Creative writing workshop
I developed and then gave a half-day workshop on creative writing to a group of recruitment advertisers working at Össur. Participants were from Iceland, Poland, France and the Netherlands, and they told me (and so I believe them) that they thought it was extremely helpful and very enjoyable.
Morocco leadership team journey
We took a group of approximately 120 leaders from an exceptionally successful British company to Morocco in March. There they went through our five-day programme of personal and leadership transformation. My role, as on the 50+ such journeys I’ve been involved with over the past 15 years, was to observe, record, interview, film and generally gather as much content as possible to help the participants get the most out of the process.
Scottish word of the moment
Yunky: in our carefree, Van Morrison-like youth we used to collect bird’s eggs. I know. But we had no idea it was a bad thing. Anyway, once you found an egg (we would only ever take 1 or 2 from the nest so the rest wouldn’t be abandoned by the parents) you had to get rid of its contents. Pinhole at each end and blow. If the gunk inside didn’t come out it could be because the egg was yunky; the embryo inside had started to develop. Actually, this all sounds pretty vile. My apologies.
Among other things
I do a lot more than just writing. For example, I present (my own stories) at conferences, like the World Usability Congress in Graz.
Word Crimes
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