Category: Open Tabs


  • When It Could Take Two Weeks – But It Takes Two Years!

    I often sit in meetings thinking: This could be fixed in two weeks. Instead, we’ll talk about it for two years. Not because it’s complex. Not because it’s unaffordable. But because the system is slow, layered, cautious — and culturally comfortable with “messy and clunky.” I can see the transformation clearly: It isn’t radical- it…

  • Diagnosis at 42- so THAT’S what it was!

    This is the first edition of Open Tabs, a blog about leading in the third sector with ADHD. The blog is new. So is my diagnosis. At 42, I was diagnosed with ADHD — after more than 20 years working in social care and the third sector, and over a decade in senior and executive…