Down to Business…
After a 20+ year corporate career helping organisations with developing their people, I started my own business Talentstorm. I have lots to say on the themes of people development, entrepreneurship and being a working mother!
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Placement Student meets the Prime Minister
I chose to do a sandwich degree at university, which meant I spent the third year working before returning for my final year. I remember seeing the jobs posted on the noticeboard (yes they were real noticeboards not virtual ones back then). Even though my interests lay in marketing (as…
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Having your cake and eating it…
The first instalment in my recollections charting my career journey of the last 20+ years. It is only now with all the talk about generation x, y and z that I realise I am just a typical product of my generation. The 80’s, my teenage years were characterised with success…
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The Big Issue – A Big Business?
My fascination with the Big Issue began when I discovered one of its co-founders was Gordon Roddick, husband of the late Dame Anita Roddick, creator of one of the eighties’ most successful enterprises, the Body Shop. How was it possible, I thought, for one couple to start up not just one…
Rachel's Round-up 