This week I want to share my guidance and recommendations for creating a portfolio that reflects your skills and interests and shows your personality, too.

A trend I’ve noticed in our data and tech industry is that we too often focus on hard, technical skills at the expense of developing and improving those qualities that makes us uniquely human and set us apart from others.

Plans are great for accomplishing your goals, keeping you on track and making sure you don’t forget an important step in the process.

Sometimes life has other ideas and throws you a curve ball and it’s up to you to be flexible, to ‘pivot’ and take a different path from the one you had in mind.

Have you ever found yourself thinking you can’t do something or don’t deserve recognition when you didn’t actually have proof that this is true? That’s your mindset getting in the way of you living your full potential.

I invite you to do an exercise to remove some of those mental barriers.

This week, I want to share a suggestion with you: set intentions, not resolutions.

It’s easy to make a list with a dozen goals you want to reach by the end of March, but is that how you should approach it?

Here are some questions to guide you in setting your intentions.

Merry Christmas to all my readers who are celebrating.

In that spirit I will keep this message brief and share a few thoughts you can use in dinner conversations as I will do this evening.

Yesterday, someone asked me ‘so what did you study to get to where you are?’

I want to reflect on the skills and attributes that really matter for our careers.

I’ve used coaching for my professional and personal life for the last 5 years and – informally – from the start of my career. I want to share with you how coaching can be a great shortcut to achieve your goals and how you can get started.

When you speak to an audience, you want to be memorable. You won’t do it with a whisper and hesitation. Here are my tips for using your voice and energy to your advantage.

You can’t change the past, but you can take action to avoid repeating your own mistakes or leaving missed opportunities behind without trying again.

When was the last time you spent time with a really close friend or family member and came away feeling so energised, understood, and loved?

Being with good people can fill your heart and restore your soul. Yet in our everyday lives we often don’t make time for these much needed interactions.

November 13th was World Kindness Day and it made me reflect on how important being kind is for your career. It’s very important.

Yes, there are successful people who are jerks, but you’ll get much further in life (and will be able to look at yourself in the mirror each morning) if you take the route of kindness.

Today I want to share ideas for small acts of kindness, that are deliberate and transform your relationships with your co-workers and other professional connections.