How long will it be before an employee sues an employer based on biometric data supplied via a fitness tracker? How long will it be before an employer dismisses an employee using the same source of data? 20 years ago, it’s hard to imagine acceptance from anyone of signing up to have 24 hour monitoring […]

First published in The HR Director 11th February 2017. “I don’t have the time to do what you do.” The implication is that somehow I have more free time, a less demanding job, or fewer family commitments. I must have heard this comment said to me dozens of times. It’s nonsense. I’m married, have a […]

First published in The Huffington Post 6th March 2017. After the First World War, much work was done to find a way to measure fatigue but it was deemed such a subjective concept as to be impossible to develop any meaningful way of objectively measuring it. It was not possible to fathom out the complex interaction […]

First published in The Huffington Post on 20 May 2015 Lessons from failure and success Supported by a fantastic team, my riding partner Charlie Mitchell and I broke the 49 year old record for cycling non-stop from Land’s End to John O’Groats on a tandem, shaving over 5 hours off the record to complete the […]

World record holder Dom Irvine gives us an update on life after the LEJOG. The soft patter of summer rain fell. I wended my way South onto the Jurassic coast eating up the miles in preparation for my next event, the 606km Ultracycling Dolomitica taking in 16,500m of climbing in the Dolomites in one sitting. […]