Governance is your strategy

Here’s the truth: governance isn’t admin. It isn’t a side gig. And it’s definitely not just signing off accounts once a year.

So, here’s an invitation. A small one. Quiet but powerful.

Finish the sentence:

“Work is…”
“I always…”
“I can’t seem to…”

The Divide …. AI Transformation

Not because the work wasn’t right, but because ego blocked the door.

The article reveals the hidden, corrosive task of managing leaders’ emotions — unpaid labour that swallows real work.

People want to work. They want it to mean something. When the system stops grading them and starts growing with them, “employable” stops being a label and becomes a relationship.

Resilience without boundaries isn’t strength — it’s survival

Scotland’s Charities are Running on Empty

The piece is about returning to Clackmannanshire, carrying memories of leaving a role for integrity, and finding new direction

Green Flag Leadership

The article reflects on joining an organisation when it still looked full of promise, only to realise it was toxic and dangerous.

The article exposes the chaos of surviving a catastrophically incompetent manager — a mix of absurdity, frustration, and resilience

The blog unmasks what workplace toxicity looks like — not abstract, but lived patterns: gaslighting, blame-shifting, stolen credit, shifting standards.

Fear of success, not failure.

The blog exposes manipulative managers as a corrosive, hidden threat — distortion of trust, rewriting reality, and control.

The article reframes youth reoffending as a systems issue, not an inevitability. Punitive models fail; therapeutic, community-centred approaches succeed

CV as an 'evidence file' that must survive both ATS and human skimming

The Secret to Creative Flow? Learn to Turn Down the Volume.

Research on toxic workplaces and psychological safety shows the same pattern: when people walk on eggshells, organisations stagnate

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