I’ve recently been the sounding board for a friend who has been looking for a trustee role. So far without success but there will be one. Craig Coben, writing in the Financial Times last month, offers a sharp observation about professionals who join charity boards after long corporate careers: many miss institutional clout more than they expect. Board roles can become a way of preserving that authority in soft focus. It is an uncomfortable thought. But I suspect it deserves more honest attention than it usually receives.

After ten years with the same website, it was time for something that actually reflected the work I do now.

That old site documented a chapter that had closed - law firm consultancy from 2014-2015. My work has very much evolved since then: career strategy through Milestones, governance consulting for Bridge Support, trustee roles, mentoring. The gap between what the website said and what I actually do had become too wide. So this is the new version. Simpler, clearer, more honest about what I'm doing now rather than what I once planned to do. Still working. Still thinking.