As a Project Manager I’m required to plan into the future and fortunately being able to work online means that has been able to continue, however applying this to daily life this year isn’t quite as easy. Plans for everyone are either being cancelled or deferred and all we can do is pencil in future arrangements for the rest of this year and hope for the best. For many, the last 3 months have been a trying and difficult time thanks to the pandemic and the full economic impacts are still unknown as we start to ease out of lockdown.
For many others this has also been very busy and innovative as is often the case in unprecedented times. Online networking has boomed and in between working, I have attended several different sessions over the past few months. It has been inspiring listening and speaking to so many different people and hearing how businesses are adapting. The message is the same, to move forward we are all having to innovate and the challenge is now to keep adapting at great speed in uncertain times. Fortunately working from home does not mean creative development is constrained, in many ways not travelling has allowed more time to review businesses including my own and the next steps.
A few weeks ago I joined the Financial Services Octo Members Group, founded by Lee Robertson and Andy Brown. I’ve discovered many familiar faces from around the industry including ex-colleagues and clients at the weekly virtual pub sessions and it’s been great to reconnect and discuss the key issues affecting the industry.
I was also delighted to be approached by Octo about an interview. The result, my first online video interview below:

This is a 20-minute chat discussing Mint Blue Consulting, the headwinds going through the Financial Services sector and how businesses are adapting in these extraordinary times. It also includes that tricky question, ‘who is someone that I admire in the industry’. There are so many people it was hard to narrow down. Who was mentioned? I’ll leave you to watch……..