Ideas

Of course, you always learn something in a JLA+ event, but recently, when hosting a session on the future of work, I learned that I was a Covid cliché. When talking about… Read More

Address, or avoid. That’s the choice. This is the moment that either changes everything. Or sets us further down the road to Mental Health Crisis. Communicate, or conceal. Reaching out and telling… Read More

One of the more heartening aspects of what has been, for many of us, a rather bleak eighteen months has been an increased interest in wider diversity and inclusion that goes beyond… Read More

As a reasonably recent addition to JLA, I still find myself impressed on a daily basis by the incredible guest speakers we get to work with. Over the last year especially, the… Read More

Whilst already a difficult year due to the onset of COVID-19, on 25 May 2020 our world changed forever. Handheld technology gave the entire world front-row seats to the brutal murder of… Read More

It’s all in the head. When I ask people “where is it that they have their best ideas?” – they never say, sitting at their desk thinking hard. Their answers usually include… Read More

I’ve recently returned to the office on a part-time basis (hurrah!) and after over a year sat at home, I had the joy of reminiscing in-person with a colleague about our years… Read More

I think it’s a safe assumption to make that a lot of people found 2020 to be a bit boring. The cancellation of some of the year’s most anticipated events; The Olympics,… Read More

Many UK businesses held their collective breath in December 2020 while Brexit negotiations went down to the wire, with the EU and UK signing off a Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement deal… Read More

2020, what a year. I don’t need to explain what happened as you were there too. At least we’re out of the days of endless Zoom quizzes and starting emails with ‘I… Read More

While the outcome of any US election has profound implications for the rest of the world, the impact of President-elect Biden’s victory over Donald Trump promises to be seismic. Keynote speakers and… Read More

In the early noughties, I nearly left my board level job working in television when I was told I was going to have to present to more than a thousand people on… Read More

October is Black History Month, and in this year of unprecedented campaigning and activism following the death of George Floyd, diversity and equality are topics that are rightly at the front of… Read More

One of the most common questions I am asked by clients is this one: How do we keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive in a big organisation? I agree it is a tough… Read More

The signs are that schools are going back in September: and so too are many offices, with leaders deciding that working from back bedrooms, surrounded by old playmobile and computer cables, has… Read More

A new gold rush is underway, attracting extremists, adventurers, military officers and politicians. But it’s not gold they’re after: it’s us. Over the last decade, a new world that has been sliding… Read More

This is a follow up on the excellent feature by my colleague Adam Harkness, written at the end of April. Adam highlighted some of the initiatives that JLA, as a speaker bureau,… Read More

JLA Account Manager Adam Harkness explains what a speaker bureau gets up to when live events are all called off…  As some of you may have noticed, there is a small problem… Read More

During these uncertain times as we all work from home, the thought of the JLA office in central London feels like a distant dream. But in recent months, we have been busy… Read More

As the new year approaches, it’s that time where we all look ahead and make an attempt to improve ourselves and create new goals for the future. In the business world, I… Read More