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🗣️ Keynote Speaker & Workforce Expert. Helping Organisations Build Personal Leadership Philosophies.

15/05/2026

Entrepreneurship gets the spotlight. Intrapreneurship does the heavy lifting.

And we barely talk about it.

After 20 years inside organisations, I've noticed something. The firms that thrive aren't the ones with the loudest founders. They're the ones with the most intrapreneurs.

People who act like owners without being asked. People who see a broken process and fix it. People who take a risk no one gave them permission to take.

That is intrapreneurship.

It's the difference between firms that adapt and firms that fade.

It's also the difference between careers that stretch and careers that stall.

Most firms say they want innovation. What they reward is compliance.

Most professionals say they want a meaningful career. What they do is wait to be told.

That's the gap.

The most underrated talent in your organisation is probably already inside it.

The most underrated career move you can make is probably already inside your current role.

13/05/2026

Culture isn't what you write. It's what you operationalise. A real joy to be a guest speaker for Purpose at London Business School, on the Lighthouse programme for senior leaders.

The session: Setting the Culture.

What struck me most was the honesty in the room. Every leader came ready to share what isn't working. The blockers. The gap between values and the day-to-day. The conversations that go in circles.

That's where transformation starts.

A value on a wall is decoration. A value lived through how decisions get made, how work is allocated and how careers are shaped, is a culture.

The leaders who get the next decade right will treat culture as something operationalised, not announced.

Rigidity breaks. Curiosity stretches.

Thank you to Louise Teboul for the facilitation, Sue Crawford for holding it all together, and Adrian St Clair Walcott for sharing the panel.

The values are the easy part. The living of them is the work.

An invigorated, engaged workforce does just that.

More on job design, leadership and the future of work in the grid.

12/05/2026

Howat Avraam Solicitors has been acquired by Hugh James. The London law firm I co-founded over a decade ago with Matthew Howat has a new home.

A milestone I am very proud to mark.

At the heart of this step is alignment; a shared philosophy of practice.

Legal advice that is practical and commercial, client care that is attentive and proactive and a definition of quality measured by the trust earned over years.

That is the standard Howat Avraam was built on and the standard that will carry into this next chapter at Hugh James.

To every client who trusted us, every team member who built it with us and every colleague, friend and adviser who walked alongside the firm.

Thank you.

To Hugh James, thank you for recognising what we built and for choosing to invest in it. The cultural alignment is real and that mattered most.

I am delighted to continue work with the firm as a workforce expert and employment lawyer.

For anyone wishing to connect or reconnect, please do get in touch.

27/04/2026

9 phrases that make high performers switch off.

Are you thinking about your language?

19/04/2026

Your mind can be your biggest asset.
Or your heaviest weight.

High performers.
Smart people.
Capable leaders.

Stuck.

Because they’re trapped in their own heads.
Overthinking.
Second guessing.

Playing out every worst-case scenario before they act and slowly… they shrink.

The noise of doubt.
The fear of getting it wrong.
It’s heavy when you try to carry it alone.

Try this instead:

Stop treating thinking as a solo sport.
Start using people as perspective.

Clarity rarely comes from staying in your own head.

It comes from:

• Saying it out loud
• Letting someone challenge it
• Hearing a different angle
• Being pulled out of your own narrative.

Getting outsight.

That’s where momentum lives.

The best teams I’ve worked with don’t just work together.

They think together.

They borrow belief from each other.
They challenge assumptions early.
They don’t let one person carry the weight alone.

If you’re feeling stuck right now…

Reach out.

Speak it.
Share it.

Let someone help you see what you can’t.

Credit to the brilliant artist: Thomas Lerooy for "The Weight of Thoughts".

17/04/2026

I think we’ve accepted something about work that won’t hold up.

Not everyone loves what they do.
Not everyone can walk away. That’s real.

But here’s the question we avoid:

Is your work building you
or slowly switching you off?

The shift is quiet.
You still show up.
You still deliver.

But you stop stretching your thinking.
You play safe.
You do what’s required. Nothing more.

That’s where disengagement starts.

The best environments get two things right:

1. You own something

Not just doing the work
You shape it. Decide. take responsibility

2. The work stretches you

But just beyond easy
That’s where confidence grows
That’s where people step into their preferred discomfort.

The future won’t reward comfort
It will reward people who take ownership
and keep working at that edge.

Quick check:

Where do you truly own something?
Where is your work stretching you?

If both aren’t there
great work is hard to find.

We deserve to feel something from the work we do.

16/04/2026

The biggest lie we tell ourselves when we’re stuck is that we need more time to think.

We like to believe clarity comes first; that if we just think a bit longer, plan a bit better, the right move will reveal itself and we’ll finally feel ready.

But clarity doesn’t come before action. It comes from it.

Before you know it, you’re not stuck anymore; you gave yourself something real to respond to.

I’ve seen this so many times in organisations, people with more than enough capability, more than enough insight, more than enough experience, who stay where they are because they’ve convinced themselves they need more certainty before they act.

So they keep preparing.

Refining.
Analysing.
Waiting

And in doing that, they lose momentum, which is the only thing that actually moves anything forward.

The people who grow don’t wait for certainty.

They move, they test, they adjust and they figure things out in motion.

So the shift is simple.

Stop asking what the perfect next move is.

Start asking what you can test next because one keeps you thinking and the other gets you moving.

If something has been sitting in your head for too long, there’s a good chance the clarity you’re looking for is on the other side of starting.

Not perfectly.

Just starting.

What’s one thing you already know you need to move on?

🏣 Share this to encourage others to have a bias towards action.

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14/04/2026

España ❤️

13/04/2026

The legal career ladder is quietly breaking.

I’ll be speaking about this at in Amsterdam.

After two decades as an employment lawyer and founder, I’ve seen how lawyers really develop.

For years it was built on high volume work.
Research.
Drafting.

It was not glamorous but it built judgement.

Now AI is compressing that work.
What used to take hours now takes minutes.

Firms are redesigning workflows and investing in technology but the roles inside those workflows have barely changed.

So we are removing the work that developed lawyers without redesigning how they grow.

That is the gap.

My session at Lexpo 26:
The Broken Ladder: Lawyers Are Ready, Their Roles Aren’t

If you are thinking about the future of your people, I hope to see you there.

8-9 June | Amsterdam

09/04/2026

If your best people feel underused…they’re already halfway out the door.
Most organisations are solving yesterday’s engagement problem.
Not tomorrow’s.

3 things matter now:

1. Ownership

People want trust, not control.
More autonomy > more pay
(PwC found over half would trade a 20% raise for it)

2. Growth

No one stays where they feel stuck.
Stretch. Challenge. Progress.
But only in environments where people feel backed, not watched.

3. Strengths

This is the shift.
Use people where they’re strongest.
That’s where energy and performance come from.

When you get this right:

Energy lifts
Standards rise
Results follow
Save this. Most leaders are still missing it.

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