This week I attended the annual Digital Leaders lecture in London and the topic for this year was Digital Democracy. Chloe Smith, a UK member of the parliament, hosted the event and did an excellent job as emcee. Helen Milner from the Tinder Foundation, a not-for-profit social enterprise that makes good things happen through digital

I’ve just started a new meetup group called London’s Thoughtleaders Meetup and I think it’s time to share what I mean by thoughtleaders. It’s a buzzword and I recently read in the Harvard Business Review that it’s one of those words that have been gaining enormous popularity over the last few decades. We love to

In December I did something that I never thought I would do. I went along to one of London’s Death Cafés. A friend of mine went to one in May last year and in November I felt an urge to check it out myself before the end of the year. We met in Putney at

My article about how you can create a better and more diverse line up of speakers was published in The Guardian the other week. Tired of the same male, pale and stale event panels? Here’s how to guarantee a more interesting, and diverse, line up As a plethora of high-profile speakers board their private jets

Photos show our life story. Do you agree? I’ve been curating and sharing photos from my life for years; at the moment my public pictures are on Instagram and Twitter. I am fascinated by how Instagram has developed to become a sort of blog of people’s lives. Some of the people I follow always share

In the last few months one of my friends has cried on my shoulder because of her manager at work. Specifically, she was bullied. Over and over again she was humiliated and felt as though all her self-worth was gone. She also got ill, very ill. My friend, who was in an international senior role,

In the first Hangout of the year we talk about passion. What is it? Do we need it? How do you find it? Tune in and listen to Filipe Carerra, Peter Milligan and me in our cosmopolitan leadership online talk show.

Digitalization is making us ask ourselves new questions; what, how, who, where, when and why? It’s has slowly but surely been spreading it’s impact in even the smallest corners of all organisations. The digital dragon fly fast and brings new power. It can be both big and small, but most of all, it’s challenging us.

One evening in December 2008, I was sitting at home playing with my MacBook computer and started to record a video of myself talking to the screen. I decided I should create a video and send it to all JCI London members as a final thank-you message. JCI stands for Junior Chamber International and is

Tonight I watched the third episode of the documentary about Astrid Lindgren, the Swedish author. Wow – what a woman. I loved her before and now I love her, and her stories even more. For you who haven’t checked out her books before please do so and for you who might be acquainted with her