The brief for this one was to produce a more personal story than the existing articles on Glanbia's website. It shows how people like Erika Thrun are working behind the scenes to deliver better nutrition. Erika works in consumer insights and gave some interesting detail about using social listening to identify trends.

‘We’re listening’: how Glanbia is empowering its people by making sure every voice is heard.

If you’re a power plant manager with 1,100°F steam circulating through a boiler feed pump, the last thing you want is a faulty valve, potentially putting workers and customer power supply at risk. IMI is at the forefront of 3D printing bespoke parts to solve customer problems in critical environments.

Food and beverage company Glanbia wanted to add some additional pages to its website. The extra copy had to blend as seamlessly as possible with existing pages. Style and tone of voice for this site meant keeping information at a fairly high level and ensuring a nice, easy read. At the same time, the client wanted to get across its expertise, underline the way it's attuned to trends in F&B and convey its collaborative approach to working with customers.

"We’re proud to see Rene Staebe on INvolvepeople’s Outstanding Top 100 LGBT+ Future Leaders Role Model List," say leaders at JTI. The company's champion trailblazer reflects on the importance of employee-led change in creating a more inclusive organization.

Every industry has its particular ESG challenges. For food and beverage, it’s the scale of the industry and the fact that modern dietary preferences can have a high carbon footprint. Yet, as Michael Patten, Glanbia’s Chief ESG and Corporate Affairs Officer, says: “Food is not optional. One thing we do need to ensure is food security and food supplies.”

Innovation is essential for business success. Received wisdom says that it’s lean start-ups that are best at disrupting the status quo, while well-established companies do better by optimising their products or services. IMI is turning these assumptions upside down. I speak with the head of the Growth Hub innovation engine in each of IMI's three divisions and learn how they're tackling industry's real, hair-on-fire problems in a way that customers are prepared to pay for.

What the Industrial Revolution was to the 19th century, the Digital Revolution is to the 21st – we’re living in exciting times for engineering. In this interview, Daniel Shook, group finance director at IMI, describes the role intelligent products can play in enabling customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and hit their targets in the race to net zero.

Worked with the directors of BOP, a consultancy specialising in the creative economy, to redefine their key messages and show clearly what benefits they offer their clients. Inspired them to be bolder in demonstrating how they stand apart from the competition.

In 2021, I worked on four titles in Dorling Kindersley's Essential Manager series. The Leadership, Project Management, Negotiating and Managing People titles needed to be updated – the previous editions were published in 2015. One of the most significant changes of the past few years is how more businesses are valuing diversity and inclusion in a meaningful way and are measurably more successful because of it.

One of the things that came up frequently while updating the Essential Manager series was the progress towards a much more empathetic leadership style across the board for all kinds of businesses including multinationals. The most successful businesses are not seeing it as a 'nice to have' but as a survival strategy for navigating and thriving in an increasingly unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

“Forty per cent of our energy is consumed in buildings, of which 50 per cent is used by heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) systems. These are crazy figures,” says IMI Hydronic product engineer Victor Hittinger. He explains how running an HVAC system through the Internet of Things can dramatically cut energy use – and help companies in the race to net zero.

I interviewed Alicia Olo Martinez, JTI's Health and Safety Director, and wrote a first person piece from her, telling how the company successfully navigated the challenges of Covid-19 and how JTI's core values proved to be its greatest strength during the crisis.

I ghost-wrote this article for a Pearson content marketing staffer, to trail the trophies, prizes, and glory of taking part for the finalists in the 2022 Microsoft Office Specialist and Adobe Certified Professional World Championships in Anaheim, California.