Some of you may already know that my first career was as an HR generalist working in the hospitality sector before moving into the world of investment banking, followed by consulting to SME businesses.  A large proportion of my human resources experience ...

Financial Wellbeing is feeling comfortable, secure and at ease with your finances.  Being able to understand and manage your finances not only in your day to day life but also for the future and the ability to make choices. Why ...

There was once a man who was born with nothing.  His biological mother gave birth to him and his twin on the floor of an abandoned building and aged 5 weeks, he was given up for adoption.  Incorrectly deemed to ...

As a small business who has spent the past two years recruiting for SMEs, we really do understand where you are now and how your journey may have tracked a slightly different route to the one initially mapped out. We’re ...

I’ve owned one yo-yo in my life; it was bright orange and on one side it had a sticker of Donny Osmond. I think I was about ten years old when I bought it, with some pocket money. Having not ...

I’ve always been a walker, from a small child striding around my parents garden, as a teenager going on long walks with friends, at university taking on challenges like the West Highland Way (54 miles in 24 hours), to now, ...

I had been living in London for nearly ten years when I first met John. I didn’t have much insight into military life other than wearing a poppy every November, and while he was posted to London, we had a ...

A startup's goals are varied. Developing a product or service, beginning to acquire customers or getting noticed by potential future investors are often at the forefront of founders’ thoughts. A lot of this comes down to brand awareness which can ...

We are entering a new phase – a new phase in a new world.  A world that this time a year ago would have been unimaginable.  After months of lockdown stasis, businesses are re-opening, leisure activities are a possibility again ...

If you found work-life balance difficult before lockdown, it’s bound to have become even worse in recent months. Here are three tips for improving the situation. Ditch the parent guilt Lockdown led to the collapse of already fragile childcare structures. ...

The phrase goes – “You never get a second chance to make a first impression” and this is never more true than with a new employee’s first day with the company, particularly when you aren’t spending any physical face to ...

As we approach the much-heralded new norm, businesses ready themselves to return to some semblance of business as usual.  However, those business that settle for this, will have failed to have grasped the huge opportunities that Covid in its wild, ...