Thinking
Noticing what's changed, and what hasn't. I write about the practical questions key shifts create for the leaders and teams doing the work.
Cultural currency: beg, borrow, earn
4 MINUTE READ
The creator economy has made one thing clear: the infrastructure is integrating faster than organisational strategy. Media, PR, reputation and employer brand are all shaping the same underlying asset - cultural currency - but few organisations are managing it as one.
Bravery is the wrong word
4-5 MINUTE READ
Bravery is what you ask of people when you haven't done the strategic work. The industry has been having a long conversation with itself about why creative work has lost its nerve. The diagnosis is wrong, but the symptom is real, and this piece proposes a different starting point: rigour and inspiration, working together.
Nobody puts PR in the corner
3 MINUTE READ
Right now, organisations are hiring specialists and building frameworks to solve a problem PR has been solving for thirty years. We just didn’t call it GEO.
Why your external communications are only as good as your internal conditions
3 MINUTE READ
There's a pattern I've seen repeat itself across organisations of every shape and size. A team with real capability, a brief that matters, budgets and ambition. And then, despite all of it, work that doesn't quite land. The real problem is almost always internal.