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It has been many weeks since I last wrote my blog regularly. We are now back in a light lockdown mode in Germany after a summer with the freedom to […]

It’s been a while since I wrote this blog and a new one will be published soon . Many people have been asking me about resilience in these last weeks […]

I first learnt how to develop others to give useful feedback nearly 30 years ago on a programme run by a feminist organisation working on ways to change work culture. […]

Removing barriers in organisations to real opportunities for everyone for advancement and self-realisation has been an interest of mine for years. Black people, for example, have a much harder time […]

So here I am, nearly in August, after so many months of relative isolation. As I have said before, our confinement was a comfortable one in Germany as we have […]

This blog post invites us all to move into uncomfortable zones: black people are very often uncomfortable living in the structures of societies in the UK, Europe and the US. […]

Last week was my birthday and I took a week off writing my blog. I did not announce this in advance – it just happened. I was trying to let […]

‘Every day 16 billion hours are spent on unpaid care work – it is the backbone of thriving families, communities and economies. This work largely falls on women and increases […]

I am returning from a few days ‘holiday’. So real time away from the laptop, phone and TV screens for me and my partner. We are in Germany so the […]

The weather is warm and the sun not far. These last weeks I have walked or cycled every day and only on one or two of them needed a rain […]