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03/2026 Morocco leadership team journey

We took a group of approximately 120 leaders from an exceptionally successful British company to Morocco in March. There they went through our five-day programme of personal and leadership transformation. My role, as on the 50+ such journeys I’ve been involved with over the past 15 years, was to observe, record, interview, film and generally gather as much content as possible to help the participants get the most out of the process.

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See below for stuff I've done (relatively) recently. For more general info, follow this link

04/2026

Creative writing workshop

I developed and then gave a half-day workshop on creative writing to a group of recruitment advertisers working at Össur. Participants were from Iceland, Poland, France and the Netherlands, and they told me (and so I believe them) that they thought it was extremely helpful and very enjoyable.

03/2026

Morocco leadership team journey

We took a group of approximately 120 leaders from an exceptionally successful British company to Morocco in March. There they went through our five-day programme of personal and leadership transformation. My role, as on the 50+ such journeys I’ve been involved with over the past 15 years, was to observe, record, interview, film and generally gather as much content as possible to help the participants get the most out of the process.

Scottish word of the moment

Shoogly: not very secure or robust. It can refer to something physical [that shelf looks awful shoogly] or more ethereal [his alibi was too shoogly to stand up in court]. The most common usage is when someone is about to get sacked from a job  or dumped from a relationship. We then say that someone’s coat is on a very shoogly peg.

Among other things

I do a lot more than just writing. For example, I present (my own stories) at conferences, like the World Usability Congress in Graz. 

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