How to normalise feedback by playing your cards right
Feedback. We all need it in order to improve. Growing up we had our families to provide feedback and help us course-correct and grow. It was normal and expected when your parents might have told you…
Help your team leave
As an agency leader, founder, manager or anyone who hires: employee loyalty is your ideal. Say it with me: no one on your team will be there forever. If you want high-performing teams who share your…
Why moving from pixels to people is never a straight line
Moving from managing pixels to managing people isn’t a straightforward decision. Many of us underestimate the change in pace, scope and challenges that come with a design management or leadership p…
Leaving Clearleft (again)
9 years. Or 3,287 days. Or 78,894 hours. Almost a decade spent with one company in Brighton. I went from a fresh, wide-eyed and hungry, ambitious designer to a board member and design leader. I’ve m…
Ruinous Empathy
By all accounts the Kim Scott book ‘Radical Cando(u)r’ has become a bible in Silicon Valley and tech circles. And rightly so, as the need for honest and open feedback cannot be underestimated. For tho…
Mentoring, and Imposter syndrome
Imposter Syndrome. That feeling when you doubt yourself, asking whether you’re deserving of your accomplishments. You can't help but feel it's only a matter of time until you’re exposed as a fraud. I suf…
Introspection as an initiative
I find it second nature to question myself. Often I’ll reflect and analyse in an endless loop, eventually introducing doubt into my own decisions. If you’ve ever watched The Good Place, I often joke to …