I’ve often had a feeling of reluctance about the effects of new technology on how we live and work. My experience has frequently been that mobiles and tablets, alerts and instant messaging, impose on our attention, create information overload, make us feel more stressed, and distract us from the things […]

Reflecting on the year past – and the year ahead – over the past week or two, I realised there are three recurring themes that have emerged in work with my clients. I’m carrying them with me into this new year, because the issues and possibilities they raise have excited, […]

Over the past year, I’ve been working in a new way by engaging in group supervision in diverse locations. There’s been a growing trend for coaches and supervisors to move their work with clients from the indoor world of rooms and offices into the outdoor world of parks and the […]

’Talking together’ is a series of video conversations between Edna Murdoch and me. It’s our regular dialogue space, where we discuss ideas, tap into trends we’re noticing or books we’re reading, and share themes from our client work and the wider field. In this third conversation, we share our thoughts […]

What did I learn from leading a workshop on multi-stakeholder contracting at the ICF Converge 2019 conference in Prague recently? The workshop (pictured above) was an experiential session, working with a complex case study. It explored how the client-coach relationship is created alongside many other interconnected relationships, including HR, line […]