Doctor's Note

I recently launched my YouTube channel with a new series of videos of advice, tips and thoughts about the journey into creative leadership, based on 30 years of …

I tend to be an extroverted thinker, which means I need to talk (or write) about half-formed ideas in my head in order to reflect upon them and make sense of …

I recently had a terrible experience with Wise (formerly Transferwise) arbitrarily suspending my account that turned me from an evangelist to a detractor in the …

I’m planning a new book on the psychological experience of transitioning into creative leadership. From my coaching practice, I know the shift from IC to …

A common topic that comes up in my design leadership coaching is a difficult relationship with a senior stakeholder. For design folks, used to opining about …

I felt it was about time for an update of my website. It’s a bit more smooth on the transition front, has much better typography and also has a dark mode …

I’ve mentioned a few times in my newsletter and podcast that I play tabletop role-playing games, mostly the very famous Dungeons & Dragons. …

I sat through Mark Zuckerberg’s painfully stilted Meta Connect Keynote about The Metaverse pondering two questions. The first was why the team that puppet …

I often see the same symptoms in the first sessions with my coaching clients. They’re highly stressed, feeling overwhelmed, sometimes close to burnout, …

I wrote a little rant on LinkedIn the other day having heard same story from several of my female coachees within the space of a couple of months: Dear male …