For years, when people asked me “so when are you actually going to space?” my answer was always the same:  Every day is a day closer than the one before. It was true, but also safely non-committal.  That answer has now changed. Something pretty significant happened recently. At the end of March, ...

I recently had a minor surgical procedure which, after several years away from day-to-day exposure to healthcare delivery, gave me a real-time opportunity to step back into the system. This time, not as an operator or board member, but as a patient. And what struck me most was just how little has...

One of the lessons I emphasise in Ready to Rise is that businesses rarely scale alone, they scale through the right partnerships. The kind where each partner brings different strengths to the table, shares the same ambition for the future, and is prepared to do the work required to build somethin...

Last week I found myself sitting beside a pond filled with water lilies in the middle of Paris, watching models walk across the surface of the water. It wasn’t a dream, it was Dior’s Paris Fashion Week show in the Jardin des Tuileries. The entire venue had been purpose-built around the pond, comp...