Ann’s Bio

I’ve worked with business enterprises for over 14 years and whilst I haven’t seen everything yet, I’ve seen the sublime to the ridiculous. It’s fabulous! I left my last ‘proper job’ seven years ago to set up my own company. We’ve come a long way and evolved rapidly. In fact, we are hardly recognisable from our early years. It’s, as always, an amazing adventure. I now concentrate on what I love doing, contributing something meaningful and making a difference to the way people view the future of work and business. I spend my time doing this kind of stuff:

1. Researching and absorbing the latest thinking in leadership, marketing, customer experience, business culture, community and social media. It’s an eclectic mix of things that really do ‘float my boat.’

2. I deliver seminars and speaking events across the UK, although offers from sunnier climes are obviously accepted! I design customised presentations but also deliver products I have created over the last several years. See the ’speaker’ section for further details.

3. Writing. Wow do I love doing this. I have a blog (oh you know that cos’ your here and write articles published on the web. I’m also a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Committee where I can contribute to the latest thoughts and research. I also tweet a hell of a lot.

4. I lecture at several Universities and Colleges.

All of my work is a vat of sincere and authentic thinking about the future of work and business, although I do talk about the here and now too. I hope to share inspired thinking, straight talk, an engaging conversation and a genuine point of view. I try to strip away the camouflage, the mask, the pretense, so representative of what old business has conditioned us to think and explore how people, technology and economics are impacting work and business. This blog is now 18 months old; its ability to connect has made me immensely better at what I do.

It would be fantastic if I challenged you to think differently about your work. Whilst we do have serious, thought provoking conversations, I haven’t forgotten that we don’t get out of this life alive and that’s it’s critical to have fun and a sense of humour with a good old dose of reality too.

I see this blog and my thinking as a craft, it’s constantly evolving, it changes. I’m always wondering what’s new, what’s interesting. Curious about people, business and technology, I’m hoping I give away more value than I take with a little humility.

If curiosity killed the cat……so be it. I’d rather be knowledge freak than a control freak!