What a trapped terrier taught me about loyalty
I’ve been thinking about a story I heard about a dog called Ella. Ella is a 14-year-old fox terrier from Adelaide who got spooked on a walk, bolted, and disappeared into a crevice in the Glenelg breakwater. She was stuck down there for five days. Rescuers found her with a drain camera, lowered in a […]
Why trust, not technology, was the biggest lesson from Australia’s first Crisis Communications Boot Camp
Artificial intelligence dominated discussion at Australia’s first Crisis Communications Boot Camp. Deepfakes, misinformation, AI agents and new monitoring tools all featured heavily across two days. The focus on technology was enlightening, but I left thinking about the human side of it all. No matter what happens, on this assertion I hold firm: the organisations that […]
A word on longevity from Louis.
As Canine Culture Manager at Pesel & Carr, I feel compelled to address a matter of growing importance: my lifespan. According to a recent AFR article, investors are pouring billions into longevity science, with dogs increasingly viewed as both beloved family members and, rather awkwardly, test subjects for treatments designed to help humans live longer […]
What happens to your social media when you die?
Do you have a social media profile? Most Australians do. But very few people think about what happens to those accounts when they’re no longer here. When someone close to us dies, managing their social media profile is rarely the first thing on anyone’s mind. Yet long after the funeral and the paperwork are over, […]
The ones we keep
I have been thinking about Bobby. Not a dog I know personally, as he has been gone for over 150 years. Greyfriars Bobby is a dog whose name I carry in my heart, as I suspect all dogs do. He was a small terrier who lived in Edinburgh in the 19th century. When his owner, […]
Books and thinkers I recommend most often
I’ve spent nearly three decades advising leaders on how they communicate – and by extension, how they lead. Across corporate boardrooms, government offices and community organisations, I’ve developed a fairly clear set of convictions about what good leadership looks like, not as theory, but in the room, under pressure, when it counts. So when I […]
