Research

I usually have a research project on the go. These feed my curiosity, allow me to chat to different people and enrich my coaching work. Three examples:

I am currently investigating ‘shifting attitudes to work and the changing nature and demands on leaders and leadership’. If you work in the built environment and would like to contribute to this, please complete the anonymous 10-minute survey here

Coaches On The Couch is the podcast I co-host with my Step Up co-coach and colleague, Louise Rodgers. Set up in the first lock down in 2020, this is an ongoing inquiry into progressive leadership across the built environment.

To listen see here or find us on all the usual platforms.

Evolution of practice. Over the course of about 12 months in 2019-2020, brand strategist and writer, Emma Keyte and I interviewed over 50 practices about the different stages of their evolution. This created insights around how to arrive, stay relevant, mature, survive disruption and of course how to navigate succession. Find out more and read the four articles we were commissioned to write for RIBA Journal here: Emerging; Maturing; Succession; Disruption

The articles were illustrated by the brilliant McCloy Muchemwa with whom I also collaborated to illustrate the coaching process.