by Liz Carter | 3rd March 2022 | E-learning, International Women's Day, Mental Health, News, Other
Hello.The world feels difficult right now - lurching from one crisis to the next. If you're struggling to focus and concentrate, please know that you're not alone. My only advice is to manage your news consumption wisely and to focus on the things you can impact.These...
by Roxanne Hobbs | 3rd February 2022 | Other
Hi all!There has been a lot of talk about menopause recently, from the menopause abuse of an employee in Essex to the fab #stopthepause campaign from Koru Kids. And rightly so – it is a life experience that over 50% of the UK population is likely to go through and yet...
by Roxanne Hobbs | 6th January 2022 | E-learning, Mental Health, Other, Resilience
Hi everyone! Just a quick note from us to wish you all a happy new year! Many of team THC have had a tiring, covidy Christmas so we invite you all to take it easy on yourselves in 2022, especially this January. This might not be the time for big intention setting....
by Roxanne Hobbs | 17th December 2021 | News, Other
It seems incredible that we're already at the end of another year! It's been a turbulent and unsettled one in many ways but we are ending on a high at The Hobbs Consultancy with new members of the core team as well as our coach/facilitator roster.We thought we would...
by Roxanne Hobbs | 1st November 2021 | Disability, Masculinity, Mental Health
Hi all. Disability seems to me to be the most neglected topic on the D,E&I agenda. Historically, it’s always been harder to get people along to events about disability. Which seems odd given there are 14.1 million disabled people in the UK (Source: Scope). I...
by Roxanne Hobbs | 8th October 2021 | E-learning, Masculinity, Other
"Not all men practice violence against women but all women live with the threat of male violence every single day. All over the Earth.” ~ Fuad Alakbarov Given last week’s news about the horrific last moments of Sarah Everard and the murder of Sabina Nessa we have...
by Roxanne Hobbs | 15th September 2021 | E-learning, Masculinity, Mental Health, Other, Resilience
Hi all. I am writing this, a mini bottle of wine in, on the way to Hull to deliver a workshop. And I'm VERY much looking forward to doing some real, live, in person work again tomorrow. I actually can't believe how excited I am to be going to Hull. No offence meant to...
by Roxanne Hobbs | 9th July 2021 | Masculinity, Mental Health, Resilience
What I’ve learnt from Euro 2020 1. Football is providing the best examples of inclusive leadership right nowI am normally a big fan of putting pictures of Jorgen Klopp into my presentations, but now I have a new inclusive leadership hero in the form of Gareth...
by Roxanne Hobbs | 4th May 2021 | Mental Health, News, Other, Resilience
"I don't know about you but I'm absolutely sick and tired of being the same person all day as I slouch around at home. I want to have different clothes, go into the office, see different people who become my lifelong friends and have a complete laugh when I'm there."...
by Roxanne Hobbs | 15th April 2021 | E-learning, Ethnicity, Other, Race
Hi guys,We need to talk about racism. The release of the race report last week floored me. I felt it delegitimised the work that we are doing and that it contradicted the evidence in front of my eyes in the organisations I work in. I tweeted in outrage...
