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Me with Jane Rogers at last night’s WOW Bromley Tweetup in the Baccarat hair salon. Photo taken by Jackie Williams. I never knew I had so many crows’ feet.

At last night’s PSA South East BBQ/AGM, QJ was elected to take over the presidency of the region with effect from October. I’m pleased to have been part of launching such a successful region, and Read more…

Speaking yesterday at the PSA Yorkshire event in Leeds. Can you guess what I was talking about?

I love this photo of me in my statement jacket, taken by Les Jones at the April PSA convention ‘Learning@Live’ where I was facilitating one of the breakout rooms. I was worried that the jacket Read more…

According to Wikipedia, several places refer to themselves as “God’s Own Country”. One of those is Yorkshire. That’s where I’ll be next month, to speak about websites for PSA Yorkshire. To combine business with pleasure, I’m Read more…

Last night, I was honoured to judge the Lewisham Regional Final of the Jack Petchey “Speak Out” challenge. If those young people are typical, we so-called adult speakers had better watch out!

I’m looking forward to the PSA South East regional Speaker Factor heat on 10 May, where I’ll be judging 10 five-minute speeches alongside PSA Fellows, Andy Lopata (who’s also doing a Q&A about his speaker Read more…

I was thrilled to be awarded ‘Regional President of the year’ along with Barnaby Wynter, for our work at the South East region of the Professional Speaking Association. I never imagined I’d be president of Read more…

Sharing my 15th business birthday cake with my mastermind group at the House of Commons today. Thanks to Rupert Honywood for the photo, and Moe Nawaz for the opportunity.