Tag: professionalism

Investing in yourself, others and the future. Part three

Investing in the future I am so passionate about diversity and equality, I spend a lot of my tie volunteering my time to support individuals and organisations who are also working in this space. ...

Investing in yourself, others and the future. Part two

Investing in others I have written often about the amazing inspiration that came from my maternal grandmother.  She was a feminist, a campaigner, the owner of hats, gloves, handbags and shoes in every hue...

Investing in yourself, others and the future.  Part one

Over the last few months I have made some significant decisions. All of these are against the back drop of a day job of running a small agency that has won more than ten...

Spring Forward: The road to success…is a bumpy one?

Spring Forward will be held in Bristol on May 24th and one of our two panels is about the road to success.  How have the issues of culture, confidence and choice affected four women’s...

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas: Community

Today’s blog is by me, after eleven days of guest blogs, I want to take the opportunity to round off the twelve days of Christmas by talking about community. Community can describe a locality...

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas: Compassion

Today our blog is written by someone who gave me such a lot of support when I joined NHS communications, some ten years ago.  The Foundation Trust Network, as it was then (now NHS...

On the Ninth Day of Christmas: Change

Today is all about change.  I am delighted to welcome the CEO of the Taylor Bennett Foundation, Sarah Stimson.  I’ve got to know Sarah over the last four or five years and when I...

On the Seventh day of Christmas – Charisma

Today, Rachel Royall, Director of Communications for NHS Digital writes about charisma;  Rachel and I first met at an event for aspirant NHS Directors of Nursing – and greeted each other with the words...

On the Sixth Day of Christmas: Courage

Anne-Marie and I met at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations North East AGM in 2015. She asked if I would be interested in setting up a Young Communicators’ Forum.  I said yes, and...

On the Fourth Day of Christmas: Choice

Julie Jupe and I met through the South West regional committee of the Chartered Institute of PUblic Relations.  We meet for dinner (not nearly often enough) with two other committee members and have formed...

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