Resources
Trend Spotting: How to identify what's coming next
A workshop session I designed and facilitated in Summer 2018 (annotated and
abbreviated version, with some classroom exercises and notes
Teaching
What I've learned from classrooms, workshops, and hundreds of sessions about how people actually learn.
Stage Left
Concealing the Clues: Lessons from TV & film writers
The British crime drama series Broadchurch
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadchurch] is one of the most
critically-acclaimed TV shows
Future Of Work
Build, Buy, Borrow, or...
A few weeks ago I was teaching a course at the HQ of one of the biggest and
well-storied companies
Podcast
Tickets Podcast: Duolingo's Laura Nestler on growing global communities
Listen now:
Apple Podcasts
[https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/tickets/id1336642615?mt=2&uo=4] | Castbox
[https://castbox.
Mindsets & Growth
Why you should say less than necessary
In Robert Greene’s best-selling, controversial book ‘The 48 Laws of Power’ is
the law ‘Always say less than necessary’
Learning Innovation
The rise of Edutainment
Education as business development (and beyond), teachers becoming more than just
the new DJs, and the foundations of a big
Learning Innovation
How to facilitate your first class, workshop or training session
My most recent collaboration project launched last week at New York Climate
Week.
Sustainable Foundations [http://www.sustainable-foundations.org/]is
Mindsets & Growth
3 circles for managing control, influence, concern, and anxiety
A concept I came across earlier this Summer is that of 3 circles.
I first used it in a business
Stage Left
5 lessons from Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola
The latest in Amazon Prime’s ‘All or Nothing’ sports documentary series goes
behind the scenes at the highly successful
Storytelling
Tall Stories - the importance of storytelling
Here’s a summarised narrated version of a talk I gave to an entertainment
company in NYC on the importance
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Jiu Jitsu, Influence, and Persuasion for creative businesses
This summer I’ve been working with Hyper Island as part of the program team
running the AMP NYC accelerator
Teaching
Why teachers are the new DJs
Three years ago I made a fairly unorthodox career transition; moving from
booking bands and DJs to building learning and
Teaching
The freezer or the morgue: a quick primer on innovation
As part of on-boarding for a new project I was asked to put together a quick 10
minute introductory talk
Learning, Education & Growth
5 lessons from a day with 300 next-generation creatives
Welcome to ERIC (via @ericfestival on Instagram)
Last Sunday I attended a careers fair.
The last time I did this
Stage Left
7 lessons from the story of CAA
A few months ago, James Andrew Miller released his new book telling the tale of
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one
Reflections & Stories
My Local - London
This article first appeared in book 1 of The Manifesto
[http://www.themanifesto.co]; ‘Local’ is a series of home