If you've read my pages on Changing People and Changing Business, you'll already have a fair concept of what drives me, and some of what
sets
me apart from so many life coaches and
business consultants.
So I'll simply give you a few facts...
Born in the 1950s I was raised in a less than salubrious area of Tottenham in north London. I learnt to read on my father's knee - the Daily Telegraph was the source of my early learning. Whatever your opinion of the newspaper, it set me well, and I was studying Fluid Physics at the University of Bristol some years before the typical admission age. But before then came enterprise at school; smelting broken Dinky toys and turning them into school medals was one surprisingly lucrative venture.
Much later I brought unwanted attention on myself
in the States from the Ku Klux Klan while running a small-town radio station, and hot-footed it back into the mainstream. My son's autism provoked not just greater efforts to understand him, but work with various charities.
I've tried to give a little something back to the world of academia which has treated me so well, developing distance-learning courses for the Open University
and working to motivate and intsil self-belief in
post-graduate students.
And I'm lucky, as you can see. It's what I term 'life luck' - we can all create it through confidence and belief in ourselves. My friends call it 'the luck of the Howards' and seem to think that it's catching. Even if it's not contagious, I think it can be taught.
Coming Soon! A place where
I'll allow my effervescent mind
a little freedom to expound on whatever subject is clamouring most forcefully for attention at
the time; you may find snippets
of useful advice and information, or you may read the verbal creaking of my mind collapsing
in on itself - only time will tell -
but please do subscribe if the fancy takes you.
