How To Pitch Big Data To Your Chief Financial Officer Sofie Sandell, a leadership and social media expert, says: “CFO’s love numbers and big data can be used to track what the business is up to in spreadsheets, graphs and graphics. Show your CFO some of these that have been used by other businesses and

Looks very true to me. With new technology comes new challenges. And people must be involved, engaged and collaborate. You can find an interesting article and where I found the image here.

The lineup for TEDxIslingtonWomen has been confirmed, promising a full day of inspirational speakers including award-winning entrepreneur Zoe Peden, best-selling author Marina Pearson and international artist Meru. Organised by entrepreneur and stand-up comedian Vaida Filmanaviciute, TEDxIslingtonWomen takes place next Friday, 6 December at Saddler’s Wells in Clerkenwell. The topics covered range from love and intimacy

Press release Sofie Sandell was one of the speakers at Junior Chamber International UK’s national convention 22 November in Leeds. Her talk about digital leadership covered how organisations can better nurture new and innovative ideas. Often people say no to new ideas without realizing that they might just have killed something that could help them to

We had a good chat on our Hangout on Air today! Thank you Peter Milligan for your thoughts and Filipe Carrera for moderating. Some thoughts about what we said: – When communicating online do with a purpose in mind – Never try to solve problems over email – if you can, meet and speak to

This is the first interview in my Digital Leadership interview series. If you have any tips for anyone who you think I should interview please let me know at sofie@sofiesandell.com. Mark Toomey and I connected on Twitter when we both used the hashtag #DigitalLeadership. We have a lot in common and we both believe that

I am on my way to Mechelen in Belgium, just outside Brussels, early November. I am speaking about Digital Leadership, digital strategies and social media at two events. The delegates at the 4P square have asked me some interesting questions in advance, I will share some of them with you now and then I will add

I’ve been asked this question many times when I’ve given talks. It seems to be common for organisations to feel as though they have to turn down lots of ideas because they don’t have the resources to deal with them. My first tip is to give people space to express their ideas. Maybe you can

This is a blog post that James Dunford Wood wrote after he attended my session about ‘Creativity in the Digital World’ at the EcommerceExpo in London 3rd October. You can follow James on Twitter as well. My aim with this keynote and workshop was to make the audience think about what they do and don’t do to

A while ago I wrote about confusion with words and language. Buzzwords can sometimes confuse us out of our mind, make us pretend we know something we don’t; and this is not good for anyone. When I posted this in the group  Creativity Champions on LinkedIn I got some funny replies that I would like to