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7 things keeping business CEOs awake at night
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last year I had nights when I struggled to sleep. My head touching the pillow was the starting gun for my entire To Do List…
New Beginnings
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The start of a new year is filled with hope and the promise of new beginnings. After a stressful 2020 we’re all ready for a…
20 Awesome Things in 2020
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I know 2020 has had some downright awful things happen. I honestly feel like I have PTSD from being cooped up with my 4 year…
Aim, fire, ready
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]2020 has been a year when nothing was in the right order. Carefully laid plans in January were out of date by March and ancient…
The Queen’s Gambit and corporate partnerships
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have you watched the Queen's Gambit (currently streaming on Netflix) yet? I highly recommend it. It’s entertaining and makes chess look far less geeky than…
Thanking your corporate partners
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]My American friends are getting ready for Thanksgiving. It’s a time for family and friends to gather together and be thankful for the gifts of…
Myth busting in corporate partnerships
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Corporate partnerships people are unique. They have special superpowers of resilience, creativity, courage, resourcefulness and emotional intelligence. But they’re not alchemists, who promised to turn…
Stronger together
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Stronger together. It’s been the mantra for 2020. Now the world is collectively exhaling at the result of the US election and hoping that unity…
The truth is out there- but not where you think
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“You just need to get out there’. It’s what corporate partnership managers hear all the time from their bosses. The pressure to find new partnership…
Breaking up is hard to do
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Not every relationship goes to plan. You start with high hopes and enthusiasm but not every frog turns into a handsome prince. Sometimes they just…
Slowing down to speed up your results
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you know me well, then you’d know that my natural tendency is to just get on with things, aka wing it. Not because I’m…
Learning to speak ‘corporate’
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Winston Churchill once described Britain and the USA as ‘two nations divided by a common language’. Similarly, NFPs and corporates operate in the same community…