Working Families 35th Anniversary Dinner – Reform Club, Pall Mall, November 12th 2014
White Water Group supports Working Families, the UK’s leading work-life balance organisation and a registered charity. The Charity celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 2014, and to mark this occasion it threw a dinner, fittingly, at The Reform Club; the first...
Neuroscience and Leadership: it’s all about behaviours, not pretty pictures
Modern Neuroscience rocks. It is described as the latest panacea in explaining ‘why we do what we do’. Conferences and books are adorned with colour scans of brains lighting up in real time when associated with certain emotions. All very entertaining, but also in...
Step away from the 5:2, drop the e-cigarette and…
Look forward to working with you in 2014. Averil, François and all at White Water Group
Merry Christmas
Like many companies these days, we like to give money to charity at Christmas rather than spend it on Christmas cards. Our preferred charity over the last few years has been the Lynedoch Creche which ‘creates space for up to 70 preschoolers for healing,...
I am not your Mummy!
At a network event, when speaking to a delightful woman, she mentioned that in her friendship group, many of the Mums had been made redundant in recent years and that they had lost confidence and career direction as a result. We know that more women are usually laid...
The train picnic
The train was packed this morning. Not enough room to read the paper. Trying to zone out by visualising a distant beach where this heat would be pleasant when the slurping broke through my reverie. A smartly dressed business woman standing beside me was eating a...
A leadership compass for the Philippines catastrophe
Exceptional circumstances call for exceptional leadership What started as a strong gust of wind supposed to cause mainly material damage rapidly escalated into a crisis of the scale of the Japanese or Indonesian tsunamis. Beyond the human tragedy, I have noticed two...
Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)
“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.” Florence Nightingale was the first woman nurse and the founder of modern nursing. Today, ninety percent of people working in nursing are female (NMC, 2008), but when Florence was born in 1820,...