My writing connects ideas across internal communication, leadership, organisational change, AI and professional judgement. Start with my perspective on strategic internal communication, or explore the latest articles below.
AI isn’t coming for my job. Yet.
I’ve spent years trying to teach AI some of the judgement behind communications work. It turns out producing the plan is the easy part. Understanding whether it is the right plan, at the right time, for the right organisation is much harder.
I tried to teach AI what experience had taught me.
I tried to make fifteen years of professional judgement explicit enough for AI to use. It ended up making me question what experience actually teaches us, and what happens when AI changes the work through which judgement develops.
What AI Is Teaching Us About Organisations.
If you’ve worked in organisations for long enough, you’ve seen good ideas spread and others disappear. As AI becomes part of everyday work, understanding why that happens matters more than ever.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Who We Are.
The stories we tell ourselves shape our choices, our relationships and the lives we build. This article explores how identity is formed, why we cling to familiar narratives, and what happens when we choose to rewrite them.
5 Weeks in 35 Years
Five weeks can feel insignificant—until you realise what they represent over the course of a career. A reflection on time, perspective and why the choices we make today matter far more than we often realise.
What Kind of Internal Content Shifts Mindsets and Behaviours?
The messages that change things aren’t the loudest — they’re the clearest. A practical look at the kind of internal content that genuinely shifts how people think and act.
Agents of Change: How AI is Shifting the Way We Work
Artificial intelligence is changing work faster than many organisations are prepared for. This article explores what that shift means for leaders, communicators and anyone trying to build a career in an AI-powered world.
How Can Internal Communication Rebuild Trust at Work?
Trust isn’t rebuilt through optimism — it’s rebuilt through honesty, consistency and clarity. A grounded look at how internal communication restores confidence inside organisations.
Launching Culture-Change with Purposeful Internal Communication
Culture doesn’t shift because leaders say it will. It shifts when people understand what’s changing and why. A practical take on communicating culture change with purpose.
Purpose At Work
Purpose isn’t a slogan — it’s a tension between who we are, what we value and the realities we live with. A reflective exploration of meaning at work.
How to Turn Engagement Insight into Performance-Boosting Action.
Insight is pointless unless it leads to action. Here’s how to turn engagement data into meaningful shifts in clarity, behaviour and performance.
What Really Drives Employee Engagement in UK Organisations?
A clear look at the real drivers of engagement in UK organisations — beyond surveys, slogans and assumptions that haven’t moved on.
The Thinking Leader: Metacognition In The Age Of AI.
As AI becomes better at generating answers, the real competitive advantage shifts to something more human: thinking about how we think. Leadership increasingly depends on the quality of our judgement, not just the speed of our decisions.
Don’t Let The Robots Write Alone.
AI can write faster than any of us. But it can’t replace lived experience, judgement or empathy. The future doesn’t belong to people who resist AI—it belongs to those who know where the machine should stop and the human should begin.
Internal Communications Should Shape Decisions, Not Just Explain Them
Too often, communication is brought in after the decisions have been made. This article argues that communicators create far greater value when they influence decisions from the start, rather than simply explaining them at the end.
The New Communicator: Human-Led, AI-Supported
What does the future of internal communications look like? This forward-thinking piece introduces a new model for communicators—where AI provides speed and scale, but humans bring the strategy, empathy, and narrative judgment that matter most.
Is Purpose a Luxury?
Purpose sounds simple until life gets complicated. A thoughtful reflection on meaning, financial pressure and the quiet work of finding direction that feels real.
The Quiet Power Of Staying.
Sometimes the most important change doesn’t happen when you leave. It happens when you stop fighting to be heard, change your perspective, and quietly become the person people start listening to.
Evolving Without Leaving: How to Reinvent Your Role Without Changing Your Job.
You don’t always need a new job to feel new. A grounded look at how to stretch, evolve and redefine your role from the inside.
Lost in Translation? How AI is (Almost) Breaking the Language Barrier in the Workplace.
AI is changing how multilingual teams communicate — sometimes brilliantly, sometimes badly. A closer look at what works, what fails and why nuance still matters.