Live Event, Experiential and Brand Experience musings

If you asked me five years ago whether remote or hybrid work would threaten workplace culture, I’d probably have raised an eyebrow. After all, in many organisations, culture is this slow, messy ritual: daily coffee-chats, embedded behaviours, office jokes, shared...

Recruiting at Christmas sounds simple, right? It’s the most wonderful time of the year and all that…   Every December, the same pattern plays out across the industry: 👉 Hiring managers have one eye on mulled wine and mince pies. 👉 Line managers are juggling...

I’ve been speaking with agency owners, HR teams and C-suite leaders across the events and experiential world, and the Q3 story is clear: the market’s refocusing on experience, hybrid has found its rhythm, AI is part of the toolkit (not the threat), and there’s a...

The Reach (Race, Ethnicity And Cultural Heritage) Events Scholarship Initiative has confirmed the University of Greenwich as its 2026 university partner, aligning the programme with one of the UK’s most diverse student communities and a leading centre for events and...

Great people notice how you hire. If you cancel late, drift through a “chat,” then kick them into a fourth round in order to meet everyone in the business, then they’ll assume your leadership makes every decision that way. If you’ve done the front-end work with a real...

We all hear a lot about candidate experience, culture, values. These are lovely words, but most hiring still starts from the same place: “we’re hiring, aren’t you lucky”. That mindset is why many hiring plans end with the ‘closest match’ rather than the right hire,...