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Barbara Salopek in Business Impact Magazine

‘As described in my book, Future-Fit Innovation, creativity is not a sudden flash of inspiration but the ability to make new and meaningful connections between existing pieces of knowledge.’

Barbara Salopek, author of Future-Fit Innovation, was featured in Business Impact Magazine “DEMYSTIFYING THE CREATIVE PROCESS”. The enduring myth that education kills creativity is based on a simplified view of how creative thinking works, argues BI Norwegian Business School lecturer Barbara Salopek. Here, she highlights how schools can address the real issue of students losing cognitive flexibility as they become adept at using knowledge in predefined ways.

BGA’s Business Impact magazine: Issue 1, 2026 | Volume 29

Business Impact covers the big challenges facing global management education as the world asks more of its future business leaders.

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Dr David Oxley in Business Impact Magazine

‘Memory is not a assive recording device; it is selective, reconstructive and deeply influenced by relevance, emotion and meaning – that’s why storytelling is such a valuable learning technique,’

Dr David Oxley, author with Dr Helmut Schuster,  of A Groundhog Career and Artificial Death of a Career,  is featured in Business Impact Magazine.

BGA’s Business Impact magazine: Issue 1, 2026 | Volume 29

WINNING WORDS: THE POWER OF STORYTELLING Memory is not a passive recording device; it is selective, reconstructive and deeply influenced by relevance, emotion a

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Dominic Colenso in The Yorkshire Post

In his mid 20s, Dominic Colenso flew in a spaceship in Hollywood, starring in the 2004 Thunderbirds film alongside North Yorkshire-born Sir Ben Kingsley. These days, he’s a York-based international speaker, author and communications expert, having spent ten years working as a professional actor for both screen and stage, before swapping performing for coaching.

Dominic Colenso, author of Cut-Through,  was interviewed in the Yorkshire Post.   

‘I starred in Thunderbirds alongside Sir Ben Kingsley, now I show business leaders how to use an actor’s toolkit’

In his mid 20s, Dominic Colenso flew in a spaceship in Hollywood, starring in the 2004 Thunderbirds film alongside North Yorkshire-born Sir Ben Kingsley. These days, he’s a York-based international speaker, author and communications expert, having spent ten years working as a professional actor for both screen and stage, before swapping performing for coaching.

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Dominic Colenso in the Fast Company

‘Most people start creating a pitch or presentation by opening a slide deck and dumping content into it. Or worse, opening an existing slide deck and trying to rearrange it. Don’t. Before you write a single word or think about your visuals, you need to strip your pitch down to a single sentence.’

Dominic Colenso, author of Cut-Through, contributed the article  “Fix your sales pitch In under 90 seconds.” for Fast Company.

Fix your sales pitch in under 90 seconds

The secret: less is moreThe secret: less is more.

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Good Bye headlines BACP Workplace

‘Leaders who can lead endings well are better equipped to lead through anything.’

Lizzie Bentley Bowers and Alison Lucas, author of Good Bye, were featured on the front page of Workplace, the magazine of BACP (the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy),  with their article “Time to say ‘goodbye’ – the grace and grief of endings at work.”

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Barbara Salopek in HR Director

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‘Resistance is rarely about the organisation itself, but about people, leaders wary of loosing control or revenues and employees preferring stability to change.’

Barbara Salopek, author of Future-Fit Innovation, was featured in the December 2025 edition of HR Director (pp. 28-29) with her article entitled ‘Fixation’. 

HR DIrector also reviewed the book, calling it ‘a grounded and refreshingly honest perspective on what it really takes to build innovative organisations in today’s complex and uncertain environment.’

 

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Drs Schuster and Oxley in The Observer

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Dr David Oxley and Dr Helmut Schuster, authors of A Groundhog Career and Artificial Death of a Career,  contributed an article on ‘Job Hugging’ to The Observer.

“It’s a relatively new addition to the HR vocabulary, popularized earlier this year by management consultancy firm Korn Ferry to describe employees ‘holding on to their jobs for dear life’. Unlike tree hugging, job hugging has no noble cause. It’s a symptom of a stagnant corporate ecosystem.”

Job Hugging: The HR Buzzword That Reveals a Deeper Productivity Crisis

Dr. Helmut Schuster and Dr. David Oxley, leading career experts and authors of Artificial Death of a Career, unpack the rise of “job hugging”-a growing workplace trend where fear and comfort overri…

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Julia Carden writes for Training Industry Magazine

Julia Carden, author of You Are Not as Self-Aware As You Think You Are, wrote an article on Strategies for Developing Self-Aware Leaders.

“It’s important to recognize that self-awareness is a dynamic trait; it ebbs and flows over time and is never fully complete.”

https://trainingindustry.com/articles/leadership/strategies-for-developing-self-aware-leaders/

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