I was delighted to be asked to run a career planning workshop for the London-based alumni of ESSEC, one of the top global business schools.  I used my Intuitive Career Plan as the basis for the workshop and very much enjoyed the experience.

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If you are a leader, do you sometimes feel like an imposter?  If you are a business owner, do you sometimes feel incongruent, that you are not always fully aligned with your business?  If you answered ‘yes’ you are not alone - many leaders experience these doubts so how can we be more authentic as leaders?

There are hundreds of books on leadership but leadership is difficult to define and describe: it’s intangible yet we all know when we are being well led - and we also know when we are ...

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Introduction
As part of a research project I started with Mentor-net and their partner, CASS business school, I was thinking about mentoring: what exactly is it? If we take the traditional '4 Ps marketing mix' approach of product, price, promotion and place, what exactly is the product that we call mentoring? Around the same time, I attended an excellent presentation by Dr Dave Richards (Inspire networking group, Bournemouth) on The Many Ps of Marketing. This led me to thinking about what P wo...
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Ever wondered why some people take a radically new direction in their careers?  Some people are just plain lucky – they get made redundant one day, and stumble into a new career the next finding complete fulfillment in it. 

But for most of us, it isn’t like that. 

We had a career, a way of life and an identity which was taken away either by circumstances beyond our control, or because we needed to change direction without necessarily knowing why, and without necessarily knowing what that ne...

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