FROST News
Updates from a life with a
Future-Ready Mindset
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14 Top Speaker Bureaus for Booking Leadership and Future-Ready Keynote Speakers (2026/2027)
This is a guide for event planners, L&D leaders, and conference organisers seeking exceptional speakers and seamless bureau relationships. 1. Introduction & Executive Summary Direct Engagement Option: Planning an event focused on business transformation, digital adaptation, or cultivating a Future-Ready Mindset? You are welcome to hold a date or explore direct package options for Allister…
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What Falling Into The Sea Taught Me
I spent some of last week trying to get back into a kayak after snorkelling. Not gracefully. I was all arms, legs, and swearwords. I still have blisters on my hands from paddling and at one point I found myself apologising to my kayak. But not to my wife who was laughing from the front…
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Audit Your Digital Graveyard
I was standing on stage in London last month, midway through a keynote on future-readiness, when about twenty smartphones went up in unison. Click, click, click. Audience members were snapping a photo of one of my framework slides. I like to imagine those photos were destined for a special folder labelled “Urgent Stuff to Implement.”…
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Yes, and…
Two little words could transform your team’s culture overnight. I have spent years watching ideation sessions get suffocated by common phrases like “No, because” and “Yes, but…” On the surface, both sound polite and professional. But in truth, both are corporate compliance mechanisms used to kill a fragile new concept before it even has a…
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An honest CFO
It’s one of my all-time favourite moments in a workshop. At a gathering for an organisation’s financial leaders, I asked everyone to identify a topic or skill they needed to understand better to prepare for what lies ahead. Most of the Finance Directors in the room came up with complex subjects. They mentioned ‘things’ like…
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The Wallpaper of Our Work
There’s a seductive danger in a comfort zone that can leave your working life on autopilot, simply because stuff (kind of) works. But how can we break that autopilot habit without confusing our colleagues or blowing up the organisation with unnecessary experiments? We can use a cognitive trick that I have carefully hidden in the…
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The $10 Trillion Engagement Gap: Why Mindset Is Your Missing Link
The latest 2026 Gallup State of the Global Workplace report has some sobering headlines. Global employee engagement has dropped to just 20%, marking the first time in history we’ve seen two consecutive years of decline: Or to put it another way, 80% of employees do not feel fully engaged in their work. This is more…
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Is Perfection Holding You Back?
I spent my week between a fast-paced tech company in Manchester and a wonderful group of NHS health professionals in Maidstone. On the surface, these two worlds have very little in common. But look closer, and you will see they are both wrestling with the same invisible enemy: the need for perfection. In the tech sector,…
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The Busyness Epidemic
It feels like many professionals I talk to have perfected the art of the busy day. Their working routine appears to be a frantic rollercoaster of calendar Tetris (other time-draining distractions are available), multiple concurrent chat sessions, and endless email ping-pong. Even turning up to meetings five minutes late has become a perverse badge of…
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Don’t quit in panic!
AI fears are prompting some professionals to make rushed career swaps, but I think there’s a better way. In fact, my ReadyAlready Growth Cycle (aka The FROST Framework) is perfect for these times. Radical change should come from clarity and conviction – not panic. Here’s a link to my recent interview with Zee at TechRound:…