Jackie

I just had to turn down an invitation to a Christmas party for a group where I spoke earlier this year, and received this reply. “Many thanks for your brilliant session for us. You were Read more…

I received lots of lovely feedback after the blogging session I ran on 26 October, and was particularly excited to receive this tweet, from choreographer, singer, and theatre producer, Jason Gardiner (quoted with permission). You Read more…

As well as copywriting all day, I worked late last night. I stood in for fellow copywriter, Doug Jenner, to run a two-hour evening class on blogging, held at City Lit in London. I do Read more…

Yesterday, I ran another course with Mitch Sullivan, training recruiters how to write better job ads. It was held in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which is currently showing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. What Read more…

Last weekend, I was in Nottingham for the Professional Speaking Association Mega convention, where I had two roles to play: Help hand over to the incoming Regional Presidents Run a Meet the Experts session: ‘Is your Read more…

That’s it, I’ve run my last event as co-president of the South East region of the Professional Speaking Association. On the hottest September day since 1911, 202020 went swelteringly well, thank you for asking. Here’s Read more…

I’m happy to report that yesterday’s 20-minute high-energy interactive talk at Beckenham Business Day went down very well. It included a paper-tearing exercise in which I gave away a tenner, and me giving feedback on Read more…

Here I am (in my nice new dress) alongside fellow panellists (L to R) Kelvin Golding, Moe Nawaz, Syed Shafqat Ali, and Stu Morrison. After my talk about websites, the five of us answered audience Read more…

My term as founding co-president of the PSA South East region is coming to an end, as Barnaby Wynter and I hand over to Regional President elect, QJ, with effect from October. Our last hoorah Read more…