• London Marathon

  In April I ran 40-something km around London. The first half couldn’t have gone better. Two hours for a half marathon around London, which hundreds-of-thousands of people cheering you on....

• Steadfast Collective X Lobo Creative

  Steadfast Collective has acquired Lobo Creative, a UX/UI and branding studio based in Wimborne....

• Building community over food

  There’s something about the shared experience of food which connects people like no other....

• Skiing and Degrees

  Did you know I'm the only grandchild without a degree?My grandparents saved for each of us to go to university.They were both headteachers and both highly respected in their fi...

• The Happy Newspaper

  The newspaper is a quarterly antidote to negativity. It’s a printed newspaper celebrating all that’s good in the world....

• 2023 & a Marathon

  2023 is a big year for me personally....

• Starting is hard. (But it's not the hardest bit)

  Starting a business is hard. There are so many possible directions you can take. It's full of risk, disappointment and graft. Only 40% of UK businesses make it past year three. Starting is only the beginning - it gets harder....

• Know your role

  As we watched the chefs prepare plate after plate, one thing was clear; Each person knew their role....

• Positivity is infectious.

  At my first England game, I saw the Lionesses play at St Mary's Stadium, which usually is home to Southampton. I've seen my fair s...

• Remote onboarding

  Every team is different. Every team onboards new members of their team differently. Here's how we do it....

• Why Collision Conference?

  We fly out to Toronto this week to join the 33,000+ folk at Collision Conference. Why did we pick Collision Conference?...

• Dyslexia as a superpower.

  My school work, emails, and even texts often don’t include words I want them to because I have no idea how to spell them....

• The Wonder of Shared Experiences

  The real question is, how can we have more of these collective community moments?...

• BenchPress 2022 Live

  BenchPress is a yearly report, now in its 10th year, which takes data from agencies across the UK to help take the temperature of the landscape....

• Community keep the world spinning.

  There are different reasons why the team champion the idea of community, but for me, it's simple....

• The Value Bank

  A while ago someone told me about the concept of 'The Value Bank'. I can't remember who or when I first heard about it, but here's the gist......

• The Smart Creative

  Based on a study of 101 post-mortems, 23% of them concluded that the primary reason behind their startup’s demise did not have the right team. That was the third-highest behind, no market need and ran out of money....

• Macro vs Micro Tasks

  As a business owner, you're switching between macro and micro tasks throughout the day, it's exhausting. You can be planning budgets for the next year when the phone rings about a very specific micro issue....

• Leadership should be calming and inspiring for your team

  Empowering leadership is based on having trust in your team and conveying that sense of trust by giving them the responsibility to get things done....

• Remote Rhythms

  Two years ago, like the rest of the world, our team packed their laptops into their bags and headed home to stay safe....

• It's time to reorder our business goals

  With the team, all in one room, Rachel and I took the opportunity to go through each of our 2021 goals in detail. We started by running through them in the order we always have....

• 25 Lessons from running Steadfast Collective.

  These are my personal thoughts on the crucial lessons I've learnt over the years of running Steadfast Collective; a development studio....

• 30 Coffees. 30 Stories.

  Over the past three months, I’ve had over 30 coffee dates - over Zoom of course. Around half the people I chatted with I already knew, the other half were strangers - aside from a little LinkedIn digging, I did not know them....

• Error messages and baby monitors

  At home, we have recently had a few WIFI-related struggles. I made a few changes, which, unknown to me, caused our baby monitor set up to fail. In theory, it should have still worked. ...

• Never judge a book by its cover

  At ten years old I was captivated to pick up and purchase; The Incredible Internet by Michael Fox....

• Affirmation

  One of my personal favourites is Tomorrow I'll Be Brave by Jessica Hische. It's a beautifully written and illustrated book that emphasises self-affirmation. One page reads; tomorrow, I'll be strong. I'll climb and jump and run....

• The Sprint Vs The Stride

  As I look back over the last 6 years running Steadfast Collective, I see a two parallels to running...

• Why we really gave away £15,000.

  Back in 2019, we ran a similar giveaway, the winner was the QE2 activity Centre. Once chosen, we had a chance to view their activity centre and we were blown away by the inclusive safe haven they have created....

• Change of trajectory

  We're making some changes at Steadfast Collective. Over the past few months, we've spent time looking back over our six years as a company, looking ahead to the future and we're ready to make a change to our trajectory......