Ideas

As the new year approaches, the climate at Westminster is becoming increasingly unpredictable. The newspapers are awash with countless stories about second jobs, misused donations, fast-tracked contracts, policy u-turns, advisors briefing against… Read full article.

With another New Year comes that great British institution – The New Year’s honours list. Numerous people have been honoured this year, and JLA would like to congratulate them all. And there… Read full article.

As we begin to look to the start of another new year, what better time to book a keynote speaker who’ll bring energy, enthusiasm, and a fresh perspective to your team so… Read full article.

COP26 starts on the 31st October, bringing together international governments, businesses and representatives under the United Nation’s Climate Change programme. The official conference spans two weeks in Glasgow, but with heightened global awareness… Read full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.

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 full article.