Why careers teams need enterprise teams (like, really need them)
Evidence with feeling is a CV with a heartbeat, and that is what employers are listening out for.
The best thing a learner builds is themselves. 23 years designing and delivering thought-provoking, action-driven enterprise programmes across education, built to drive action and build evidence.
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Over 20 years in enterprise education
Entrepreneurial thinking is for everybody (running a business is not)
Most business owners are not entrepreneurs. Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass.
Most of your learners will never run a business (and why that's okay)
Walk into most college enterprise programmes and you'll find them quietly organised around a fantasy.
Freelancing might be the most empowering thing we don't teach
Think about what freelancing gives a young person. It takes the thing they're already good at, the thing they're already interested in, and turns it into income - not a hypothetical business they'll never start. Income now, from who they already are. It doesn'...
Why you can't teach confidence, and how you build it
Confidence isn't the input - it's the output. And it's made of one thing: evidence.
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Taking the confusion out of storytelling
A story doesn't need a beginning, middle and end. This isn't bedtime.
Most people don't have enough of this
We're designed to conserve energy. Wired for an easy life. So why do some people keep going when everything says stop?
Turn your mundane self into a story machine
You're not boring. You're too close to see the stories you're sitting on.
Doing this every day is hurting you
Without this, there's a hollow right at your centre. You can run a whole business around that gap and never see it.
Being good isn't enough anymore
A personal brand is about building in public - not private stuff made public.
This will try and kill your business
Most of your recent decisions came down to what you prefer. That's not judgement. That's ego.
The tweaking paradox
I have learnt from my predisposition to tweak that I much prefer tweaking to doing the work. But I prefer doing the work to tweaking.
This thought transforms my anxiety
The churn before a presentation could be anxiety or excitement. They feel identical. So I picked.
Choose what you want to be known for
You get sick of your message long before anyone's heard it. This is the trap.
Why AI will never replace you
AI is a tower of borrowed blocks. It wobbles the moment you lean on it. You don't.
You're guessing more than you think
You can be right because you checked, or right because you got lucky. You won't know which until it falls over.
