What do students see as the biggest causes for concern when considering their imminent entry into the world of work? What are their hopes and expectations? These are just some of the discussion points I […]
Category: The wild & wacky world of work
Culture, risk and the cyber scene
The recent Confederation of British Industry (CBI) webinar provided a timely update on managing cyber security risks and boosting organisational resilience. This is a hot topic and high up on most risk registers – the latest PWC global […]
Shattering some glass on international women’s day
Can technology break through both the glass and the class ceiling? Yes, absolutely. Is it currently breaking through? No. But it can and it will. This was the message from Sarah Atkinson, CEO of the Social […]
GLOBAL ILLS AND Local skills – TAKIng stock of oecd local skills week (Part I)
The recent OECD Local Skills Week – a co-production with the JPMorgan Chase Foundation – was a pretty timely event. With reskilling top of the priority list in most countries, this was a great (virtual) platform for taking stock of […]
Building bridges in brookmans PARK
The recent careers day at Chancellor’s School in Brookmans Park, North London was a high-energy #futureofwork fest. Great questions and insight from year 12s on how they think skills, ways of working and physical workplaces are likely to evolve […]
2021: A workplace odyssey
And so here we are, on the other side, emerging bleary eyed and tentatively feeling our way into the first few weeks of a Corona-clad New Year. 2021 will be a year of recovery, of […]
Getting in with the in-crowd
Fair to say, it’s been an interesting time on the political front. If the last few months had been written up as an ‘In the thick of it’ style political satire, the script would have been dismissed as the work of a deranged fantasist!