In sweltering heat the sun shone through the longest day of the year, and I used the mid year point of the year to reflect on the past six months. Here on my blog the posts and podcasts have been stacking up, whilst over on my work domain coaching, consultancy and courses have been in full swing.
This post brings it all together, gathering all the gold dust ready for summer and the next six months.
On the blog
Over 30 blog posts so far this year, so blogging is going STRONG 🙂
- Reviewing my tech stack: Part 1
- The Hybrid Working “1% Better” List
- Reviewing my tech stack II: Socials
- Reviewing my tech stack III: Openness in Practice
- Blogging #4life, now with added community.
- (Blogging) Challenge accepted.
- From inauguration day to origami.
- Looking forward to: Education after the algorithm
- Fresh blogging inspiration
- Fun. In the Sun. In Dublin. OR Education after the algorithm
- Celebrating my next coaching milestone
- Permission to be unproductive
- Open Education Week 2025
- My #FemEdTech Years and what’s next
- Re-inventing Mondays Revisited
- Setting up a space for brewing new ideas.
- Blogging on the Open Web.
- Having a Career
- Preview: Global Trends Towards Flexible, Hybrid Working and its Impact for Digital Leadership in Higher Education
- Working on the ‘Princeton University: Domain of One’s Own’ Case Study
- Mission complete: Tech Stack IV
- Reframing Career, Success and Personal KPIs.
- Coaching tips from my year of 10k races
- Fan #4life, friend #4life
- Listen to OEG Voices 082: Amanda Coolidge, Marcela Morales, and Maren Deepwell on “The Small Things”
- Small Things. Changed.
- Book Mission Statement
- The Lost Podcast: Talking career (meaning) making with Kin Lane
- Read, Run, Write. Repeat.
- Keynote: From Analogue to AI
- From OER25 to Reclaim Open 25
- Long time reader…
On the podcast
I have published 23 podcast episodes so far this year with more special guests, including:
- 123 – Special Guest: Lou Mycroft
- 122 – Special Guests: Marcela Morales and Igor Lesko
- 121 – Special Guest Doug Belshaw
- 120 – Writing a Book Mission Statement
- 119 – Coaching tips from my year of 10k races
Talks, articles & events
- Keynote: From Analogue to AI, Associate Lecturer Support and Professional Development (ALSPD), Open University, 11th June 2025;
- Event: Back to the Future: A New Review of the JISC 2020 Report – Five Principles, Five Targets for 2025, panel speaker, 7 May 2025;
- Case Studies: Stanford University: A decade of Domain of One’s Own, and Princeton University: Domain of One’s Own, with Jim Groom, written by Maren Deepwell, 28 May 2025;
- Launch: National Digital Leadership Network (NDLN), including launch of the report I authored, 2 April 2025;
- Event: How to Get Your Blogging Mojo back, Community of Practice event, 19th March 2025;
- Talk: Critical Cadence: Reclaiming the Pace of Digital Productivity, Education after the algorithm: Co-designing critical and creative futures, 20-21 February 2025, in Dublin, Ireland;
- Workshop: Managing uncertainty in the age of AI. Senior Leadership Team Away Day, University of Edinburgh, January 2025.
Executive coaching and training
A big thank you to all my coaching clients! I celebrated a milestone earlier this year when I passed 200 professional coaching hours, and I continue to be active in the UK Chapter of the International Coaching Federation. I also had a chance to continue my group coaching and training, including:
- Course: Healthy Hybrid Habits for Managers and Leaders, 22 Jan – 20 Feb 2025, 25th May – 20 June 2025;
- Course: Long Distance Leadership Postcards, launched April 2025;
- Coaching: Executive Coaching with Sereniti, March 2025;
- Course: Digital Wellbeing: Healthy Habits for Hybrid Working, University of Oxford, February and May, June 2025;
Consultancy
I’ve updated and exampled the list of projects completed which now has its own page and that has been both fun and really satisfying to accomplish.