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Rupert Wesson joins dBG

We are delighted to welcome Rupert Wesson as the latest addition to our growing team. Rupert is a communications coach, leadership consultant and a learning and development specialist – helping organisations to grow by developing their leaders, changing their culture and improving their performance.  

What makes a good life?

“There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.” What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you’re […]

Storytelling in Business

  Storytelling has no place in business. How often have we heard that at the de Burgh Group? Business we have been told, is about facts and figures, bottom lines, strategic staircases, aims, goals and business solutions… When was the last time you sat through a monotone delivered presentation crammed with this sort of jargon […]

Why we procrastinate

Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn’t make sense, but he’s never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window — and encourages […]

The benefits of failure

At her Harvard commencement speech, “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems “worth more than any qualification I ever earned.”  Her story itself is a prime example of the ‘rags to riches’ genre which itself is particularly effective for demonstrating how […]