I’ve had the nerve wracking experience of being interviewed on a couple of occasions for a Race for Opportunity Award.    On one particular occasion, seared into my memory, I had to improvise...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/judging-race-for-opportunity-awards/

Over the last few months I have been collaborating with Kathryn Cave, the Editor of an on-line magazine IDG Connect for the ICT Industry.   She is working on uncovering the extent of bullying in...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/bullying-the-uncomfortable-truth-about-it/

Without a doubt the artifacts of diversity and inclusion at work are here to stay: unconscious bias training, employee networks, the initiatives aimed at women, the awareness courses, the statist...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/strategic-change-and-diversity/

Life’s rich tapestry, as the cliché goes, has many threads. It is sometimes good to pick up those threads and find meaning in them again, none more so than during this funeral period for Nelso...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/a-personal-reflection-following-the-death-of-nelson-mandela/

During the week I was chatting to a nurse who was just back from maternity leave.  Her toddler was at nursery and happy to be there, enjoying the new experience of water play and sharpening his ...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/reservoir-pups-and-other-things-about-boys/

Michael Skapinker, commentator at the FT, credits a reader with the wittily apt ‘Catch-55’.  The term sums up the dilemma faced by older workers who, with longer lives, later pensions and po...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2013/09/12/catch-55-our-failure-to-keep-older-people-at-work/

Walking along the London South Bank on Sunday evening I passed a restaurant where a group of twenty-something men were standing greeting a number of their mates.  They all hugged and kissed. For...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/looking-for-the-silences-about-masculinity-and-organisations/

I was but a small girl when Martin Luther King made his ‘I have a dream’ speech on that late August day in 1963.   This morning on the Radio 4 Professor Clayborne Carson introduced a deeply...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/catching-the-dream-advocating-change-in-organisations/

I have been interested in the advice currently being shared about ‘what to do when you are bullied’.   Sadly most of it is idealised, text book advice, which does not take into account orga...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/bullying-advice-lets-get-real-shall-we/

A former colleague’s mum died recently:  she was on the Liverpool Care Pathway and did not have a ‘good’ death.   In her powerful article in Disability Now,  From fact to fiction: the m...

https://thechangemap.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/a-story-for-today-an-experiment-in-compliance/