The Journalist-In-Residence Experiment
Why does a Personal Advisory Business need a Journalist in Residence? The short answer: because we have decided to conduct an investigation - An investigation into this world, our world, the world we live and work in today. Asking questions and stimulating exploration, is the essence of performance coaching; inquire, stimulate and explore. And what better way to record this exploration than via the approach of an investigative journalist?
Enter Deborah Bosley. Once the Manager of the Groucho Club Hotel but later an award-winning novelist, journalist and Royal Literary Fund fellow, Deborah gets people. Her specialism for making the ambiguous tangible, the unsaid heard and the esoteric obvious is the perfect combination of hardy and human needed for Whitecap’s first Journalist in Residence.
A Need For Clarity
It seems like there has never been a more important time to explore and attempt to understand how we’ve all shifted our identity, expectations and relationships during this last year. Let’s try and figure out how this has impacted the way we will live and work.
A Need For Connection
‘Braver business’ demands openness to new ways of doing things. Often just recognising that things of use can come from unknown, unfamiliar places is the first step - the idea that you don’t have to know it all.
So given that new ideas often come from new and unexpected connections, someone with their own point of view seems the smart way to helm this series; Deborah is our unexpected opinion.
A Need For Cross-Examination
We want to be proactive about what we preach, so Deborah is here to document, interrogate and challenge our point of view.
As Whitecap develops into more than an in-person Personal Advisory Business, we want to explore how transitioning into something greater than the sum of its parts evolves. A sort of rapid prototyping of modern entrepreneurship itself.
What To Expect Going Forward
We’re delighted to have Deborah working with us over the next few months. What you can expect to see are a collection of thought pieces, observations, and editorialised examinations into how Whitecap’s offering is affected by those Whitecap works with.
From individuals to global organisations, startups to big business, Deborah is going to narrate these evolving points of view.
What this means for you, we hope, is that there’s some really insightful and engaging content on the way.
And who knows - it might even get you thinking about how you’re doing.
Watch these spaces and see.