On 19th January, Jacinda Ardern announced that she would be resigning as New Zealand’s 40th Prime Minister. She duly did and has now left office after five-plus years. There is no doubting her impact. A PM at 37, a progressive politician and a natural communicator, Ardern’s…
As if January could get any worse. To the standard mix of cold, grey days, further discoloured by abstinence and financial reckoning, the start of 2023 has added new, unpalatable ingredients. Widespread hardship, crippling strikes, commercial fragility, political inertia, fractures in core services plus the…
Every December I write a blog about homelessness. I am relieved that this national scourge comes into high relief at Christmas but equally depressed that it falls from view in the New Year. The government is tackling the problem with £2 billion over three years,…
Business leaders I’m speaking to right now are wrestling with the same challenge. How to re-create an energetic, productive office environment post-pandemic. A sensitive debate is in play. CEOs want to fill the workspace four or five days a week. They tend to reflect this in…
These quoted words, from US author of the Dune saga Frank Herbert, have been charging around my head since the infamous ‘fiscal event’ of 23rd September. That was the day when our prime minister and her chancellor conspired to crash the UK economy. Regardless of political…
What a couple of weeks. No sooner do we have a new prime minister than our monarch of 70 years dies. At least we specialise in marking such events with faultless ceremony and Queen Elizabeth’s funeral was an extraordinary exemplar. Britishness at its most leveraged. What…
Bigfoot is owned and run by Paul Tredwell. Since 2004 I have been an independent communications consultant, delivering a wide range of projects but with a focus on and passion for relationship optimisation.
