About Me

I'm a business coach specialising in work with creative businesses and professional artists and creatives.

Writing Poetry

What does it take to write good poetry? You'll have to create your own recipe but here are some of the ingredients.

Coaching Creative Professionals

This is a lens for artists and other creative professionals, and the people who manage them. Whether you work as a freelancer, or in a small or large creative business - such as an ad agency, a design studio, a computer games developer, a fashion des...

Reading Poetry

This is a lens about essential poets and poetry - a companion to my Writing Poetry lens. I'll try to keep the modules in chronological order, so that more recent poets appear at the top of the lens, and you travel back in time as you scroll down the...

Mervyn Peake

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Mark McGuinness

If you ask me, the most important thing in life is to follow your heart and do something you find fascinating, inspiring and worthwhile. This has led me to explore some weird and wonderful career avenues, from hypnosis and poetry to consulting for bl...

Tantrums and Talent - How to Get the Best From Creative People

There's plenty being written about the 'Creative Class' and the new 'Creative Economy', but very few books about the specific practical challenges faced by a manager in a creative business - such as an advertising agency, a TV studio, a design consul...

The Enneagram

coming soon...