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.
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.
A selection of other pieces I've written around careers and mentoring, including research around approaching AI usage in career guidance ethically and effectively.
