I wrote a book! Published by Kogan Page (2026) and excitingly available worldwide, it draws on years spent working alongside early-career professionals, employers, and organisations navigating a fast-changing world of work. We hear and see news around AI and technology reshaping roles, hybrid teams redefining what collaboration even means, and multi-generational workforces are bringing genuinely divergent working styles into the same room. Whether someone is starting out in their career, managing up, managing a team, or just trying to work well with people who see things differently, empathy is one thing that makes a difference.
My approach in the book is to build a practical empathetic toolkit for reading situations, understanding perspectives, and managing relationships with intention, helping anyone who reads it underpin a durable, adaptable career from their very first day in a role.
The Work Of Fiction is a 'series' of articles I'm writing where I'll discuss fiction alongside the career theories they have some parallels with, drawing on my own insights from experience as a career coach and educator. I'm currently writing series one, focusing on the work of author Kurt Vonnegut. See The Work Of Fiction for more and how to subscribe to the Substack where I'm publishing this work.
Think back to when you've sat in a job interview. Have you faced a moment where an answer to a seemingly simple question just doesn't find its way to the surface? Where you understand all the words being said, but trying to find something that matches this from your experience – which has already matched the job specification well...
This sort of question which could be answered from a range of directions and in different styles, can offer anyone being interviewed huge freedom, but often with this level of choice comes a level of comparison anxiety ('there must be better candidates out there than me') and uncertainty as to whether the path that person is about...
I like a good resolution as much as the next human being, but I also like not feeling that I've piled a load of things up to do all in one go at the beginning of January. That winding down very soon threatens to become a winding up.
I've enjoyed speaking and presenting about my work and on career development topics in all sorts of situations over the years:
This has included:
A selection of other pieces I've written around careers and mentoring, including research around approaching AI usage in career guidance ethically and effectively.
