Back in the days when I was experimenting with ways to reach my customers online, I implemented live chat functionality on my website (back then there was only one). I admit, I was really quite excited by the idea of talking to my prospective customers live.But eager is as eager...

As the world evolves, so humanity remains essentially emotionally the same. One part angel, one part devil, all of us suffering from the influences of religion, society and our parents.  All of it crystallized in sharp relief within the hellish prison of childhood. I always said I'd never forget...and yet...

At one time in my life I was a Samantha, then I calmed down and became a Carrie although I had the ambition of Miranda (that waned pretty fast after my children were born though). I was never (as those who know me can attest) a virginal Charlotte. Ahem.

In...

When I was at my all-girls school my biology teacher blew a condom up like a balloon and brandished it in front of our faces.

"Never let him tell you it isn't big enough." She shouted.

Those of us close enough to smell the spermicide, tittered nervously and gazed at...

Or the accidental fracktivists

It's always the case. That karmic force of coincidence* which means you learn the most obscure word in the English language one day, and then hear it (or read it) ten times the next. So it was that my last post...

I thought a knew a fair amount about environmental issues and even more about the English language. But when a friend passed me over an article about a new contraption promising to make fracking 'greener' I was confronted with two challenges. Reading about the unknown, in an unknown language. And yet it was...

It's always difficult to admit you've failed at something. Call it what you will (and I usually do). Learning experience anyone? My particular learning experience - or the price of my first website -  was £60,000. Okay so it's not much on the Scarface scale. But it's still a huge...

A founding father once wrote, 'nothing in this world can be said to be certain except death and taxes'. But whilst taxes may be certain for law abiding folk in the western world, there are thousands who live off the grid and still more who live outside the radar of...

When I tell people I have had three scholarships in my life, 2 academic and 1 music they are impressed. When I tell them I studied piano for 12 years but stopped short of Grade 8 (the highest grade), they are impressed. When I say I won every form prize...

Living abroad my boyfriend and I subscribe to Love Film to get our fix of British and American TV.

'Look this one has 7.8 out of 10 on IMDb' says my boyfriend (between you and I, anything over 7 means we'll give it a go).

Ordering TV by star rating has...

Once upon a time, an unmarried girl hid her pregnancy for 9 months, travelled to the north of England and gave the baby up for adoption. It was 1975. She also hid the secret from her family and friends for 20 years until, the child, now a fully grown woman,...

It is said that starved of love, the human soul dies. Lovers, friends, family, they are all part and parcel of the circle which grows the soul on its evolution through life. Our marketing director, Knowler is over in Sweden to visit me, a visit which is part business part...

I am a very lucky woman. And I am even luckier to be able to realise it every day. Today's revelation was remembering my ex-husband's psychological block about giving me flowers, compared to my boyfriend who only two days ago, brought home a bunch of yellow roses unprompted. In today's...

There's been a buzz of activity around the fact that we at Investment Impact are a social business lately.

And that doesn't just mean that I enjoy flirting over several large glasses of Chardonnay (it would be Bourgogne, but stained blue teeth doesn't make for great connections).

A social business...

I read a great article the other day about what it means to be an entrepreneur. And it made me recall a conversation I had with a professor at HEC about the difficulty in creating an entrepreneurial module for a masters course. It is indeed a challenge to create an...

'I like them.' I said, 'I like them very much. But I don't want to leave our daughter with them.'

'But why not?' asked my...

Today I came across another stigma I think is worth challenging. In the world and in myself. It's surprising that this one has only raised its head now or rather I have only become aware of it now, because I...

Today's post about the complexity of creating a consultancy company with multi-disciplines has been put on ice. Because there is something far more important to talk about. And that's about changing the world (a subject which tends to rank fairly highly on the agenda, right after any new Apple product...

As I explore the landscape of social media to publicize my business, one can't miss that  Facebook has changed the way we interact and certainly encouraged - if that's the right word - many of us to browse the web somewhat differently. In one job interview back in 1999 for an...

Discovering another culture is more than eating the food and watching the films. It's observing, analyzing, questioning and understanding why things are the way they are. Living in Sweden has given me a fine opportunity to compare and contrast. And so we come to the Swedish obsession with Eurovision. Where in other...