What a great time I have had in Berlin and what a beautiful city it is. The conference I spoke at was the BME Symposium which is a very large purchasing and logistics conference. I was invited to speak at
This has been a great week where we spent some wonderful time in Gibraltar with my brother and his wife and this made me realise how important family time is. Thank you, Richard and Adele, for the invitation to stay
This blog is a day early as Julie and I are flying to Gibraltar tomorrow morning to visit my brother Richard and his wife Adele for a long weekend. We have been trying to get across to see them for
What an amazing game of Rugby I have just witnessed. The words and phrases which come to mind are Stunning, Amazing, Belief, Resilience and It’s our time! ‘It’s Our Time’ was the headline in one of today’s newspapers and this
It’s been a very good week coaching a couple of clients and contacting new potential clients, but the highlight has to be the Mental Resilience Masterclass I ran for Maximus Training at their annual conference. MAXIMUS is a huge organisation
This week I had a good meeting with Rolls Royce to discuss future work, secured another booking with Derby College and had a confirmation of potential work in Malta. I also had a phone call with a client in Dubai
This has been a busy week working on new business potential, including a really good meeting with a Primary Care Trust and a lovely trip to Penrith to deliver a Mental Resilience Masterclass to a large law firm in a
What a fascinating week this has been. I had the privilege to speak at a conference in Stockholm Sweden earlier this week and then ran my Mental Resilience Masterclass on behalf of Live and Learn for Expertise Home Care in
This week has been a really positive week where I delivered a Mental Resilience Masterclass to Hudson Contract in Bridlington on behalf of Live and Learn and also delivered 3 Mental Resilience talks to a total of 1,000 students at
It has been a fun and enjoyable week running two Mental Resilience Masterclasses on behalf of Live and Learn in Bridlington and Oxford. The staff who attended these sessions were brilliant and the interaction and energy levels were really excellent.
First of all, I want to give a very warm welcome to my sister in law Jen and her husband Tony who have flown all the way over from Australia to spend 3 weeks with us. We are having a
I have spent most of this week following up leads for potential talks and Masterclasses which is very important in building any business. I have had some positive responses and some negative, but I know that not every contact I
It’s been a good productive week this week with an international call to confirm a keynote talk in Germany, a great meeting with Rolls Royce to discuss further work and a fabulous full day Masterclass for a large organisation in
A week and a half ago I sent out an extra blog on a Wednesday asking if what I do has had a positive impact in any way and the response was amazing. Thank you every single one of you
The highlight from this week has been running my Masterclass for senior leaders at Rolls Royce in Derby. It was great to share my story with them of how in just 5 years I have turned my life around from
It’s been a busy week of admin this week catching up on all the leads I am working on and phoning a few potential clients. Picking up the phone is something which is much more challenging than writing an email,
This has been an interesting week coping with the hot weather and following up potential clients where I have shared my latest feedback from recent Masterclasses and talks. The amazingly positive feedback I am receiving is quite remarkable and gives
Another fulfilling week with several excellent meetings for potential new work and a great day delivering my Mental Resilience Masterclass on behalf of Live and Learn to the staff of Arrow Valves. This was a fabulous day with excellent interaction
What an amazing week this has been with a Masterclass for an excellent Vistage group in Manchester, a Masterclass for the national sales force of Xtratherm in Chesterfield and two Masterclasses for the staff at Derby College. All four Masterclasses
This week has been really good fun where I met an international connection for Malta, had a great conversation with an international speaking agency and then spoke and judged at the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) East Midlands meeting. It was
Spending 3 days in Dresden Germany this week was a great experience and speaking at the European Procurement Excellence Summit was the highlight of the trip. The response to my talk was extremely positive and I am now in discussions
Thinking Outside the Box This has been a great week delivering Mental Resilience presentations to Hallam Internet staff and Rolls Royce staff. Both sessions were great fun to deliver and the feedback has been really positive. This was my first
The trip to New York on the Queen Mary 2 was a unique and beautiful experience. The three talks I delivered were well received and had a powerful impact on some people based on the comments I received during the
It’s Monday afternoon and we are still in New York enjoying the wonderful holiday with Julie. The cruise on the Queen Mary 2 from Southampton was amazing and the food was extraordinary. The three talks I delivered were great fun
