I am an independent consultant and work direct with clients or through agencies and consultancies as part of their team. With over 30 years experience in corporate communications, television radio and advertising I have learnt and observed many features of the way human beings communicate at work and in their personal lives. I have watched people being creative, organised, emotional, tyrannical and often unbalanced. This applies to managers, senior or otherwise, tribes, groups and teams.

My offer at this stage in my career is to bring to life a different view of the world for a client, they might not like it or regard it as irrelevant but hopefully I can prompt them to ‘think again’. That is the way I am useful to businesses, organisations and individuals, to probe and ask difficult, sometimes silly questions and when if  needed, think up ‘ideas’ that might be useful and work.

All the guys at BP or Volkswagen or governments of EU countries or Blackberry or Kodak, all thought that they were doing just dandy, thank you very much, and were more than capable of successfully running big companies, until someone ran away with the technology to take digital images or a sudden rush of migrants appeared out of nowhere on EU borders or some engineer playing with some monitoring software in a little back office………and…………bingo! millions wiped of your shares or worse, your company has gone bust or been taken over.

Sometimes listening to a small outside voice might help you prepare for the ‘unthinkable’.