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🍷 A good meal with 9others - Cotswolds

They say that business problems are best solved over a good meal, and we couldn’t agree more. We are thrilled to be hosting Katie Muldoon and the 9others community at The Wine Barn this March for an evening of connection, conversation, and collaboration.

As Roland Rudd once said: “There’s no better way to take a relationship to the next level than a good meal in the right setting.”

The concept is simple: 10 people (you plus 9 others) sharing a meal and brainstorming the challenges that are keeping you awake at night. Whether you are looking for a fresh perspective or want to help others find a way forward, this is the perfect environment to forge lasting business relationships.

The Details:
📅 Thursday 21st May 2026
⏰ 18:30 - 21:30
📍 Vinotopia, The Wine Barn, Nailsworth, GL6 0BS
📍 What3words: crackled.glorious.juggles

What’s included:
✨ A delicious sharing meal
🍷 Half a bottle of wine per person
🤝 Access to the 9others Slack community post-event

Success requires the aid of others - come and find your solutions here at the Barn.

🎟 Book your seat here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/9others/2132838

This bank holiday, I finished the draft of my book.

What you're looking at in the photograph is a year of thinking, finally on paper.

The book sits at the intersection of two formative experiences — operational military service, including Afghanistan, and psychoanalytic training — and asks what I think is one of the defining questions for leaders right now: as technology accelerates, what must we actively protect?

My argument is that it is the human capacity to feel, think, and choose — not in comfortable circumstances, but in the moments of greatest pressure and consequence. The moments where no tool, model, or process can substitute for judgment, and where presence and conscience are the only currencies that matter.

Getting it to this point has required sustained support. The team at Rethink Press have been excellent throughout, and my development editor, Martin M, brought the kind of rigorous, honest challenge that makes a manuscript so much better.

It is now with beta readers. I'm curious.... and a little apprehensive..... about how the central argument lands with the people who generously give their time to review.

*Due out Autumn 2026.*



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Links to all events here (and in bio): https://lnkd.in/evyXtVkp

Monday 18th May . A relaxed short stroll at 1.15pm every 3rd Monday of the month to meet new people and connect in Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham.

Thursday 21st May Our next 9others meal in Nailsworth, - we meet over a meal and help each other by sharing connections, experiences and different perspectives. You don't need to be an entrepreneur to attend. Perhaps you're contemplating your next career move or navigating a professional pivot. The question we explore: 'What challenge is keeping you awake at night?' concerns anyone rethinking their professional trajectory.

Thursday 4th June (live webinar) - In partnership with Heresy Consulting: An Introduction to Psychodynamic Thinking course (self-learning), designed for people who wish to work more thoughtfully with what lies “beneath the surface” in organisations. https://lnkd.in/ev-GWgnS

Last evening of the Easter weekend.

Longer walks with Milton (🐶) in the mornings, then writing in the afternoons. He took up his position on the chair beside me, albeit not looking entirely content with the arrangement....

To be fair, there was a treat on the keyboard. That may have influenced things.

Big progress this past week, though. The first version of the whole book now moves into a second round with the development editor.

Milton, for his part, remains focused on the important things.

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My book is an examination of what my military experience and psychoanalytic training reveal about what leaders must protect as technology accelerates: the human capacity to feel, think, and choose in the moments that most demand it- due out Autumn 2026

Upcoming events and courses:

Links to all events in bio

Monday 20th April . A relaxed short stroll at 1.15pm every 3rd Monday of the month to meet new people and connect in Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham.

Thursday 21st May Our next 9others meal - we meet over a meal and help each other by sharing connections, experiences and different perspectives. You don’t need to be an entrepreneur to attend. Perhaps you’re contemplating your next career move or navigating a professional pivot. The question we explore: ‘What challenge is keeping you awake at night?’ concerns anyone rethinking their professional trajectory.

Thursday 4th June (live webinar) - In partnership with Heresy Consulting: An Introduction to Psychodynamic Thinking course (self-learning), designed for people who wish to work more thoughtfully with what lies “beneath the surface” in organisations. https://lnkd.in/ev-GWgnS

Thursday evening was a very enjoyable Cotswold’s edition.

At 9others, we meet over a meal and help each other by sharing connections, experiences and different perspectives. You don’t need to be an entrepreneur to attend. You can be contemplating your next career move or navigating a professional pivot. The question we explore: ‘What challenge is keeping you awake at night?’ concerns anyone rethinking their professional trajectory.

We had the pleasure of being hosted at the wonderful for our meal. We had the whole Wine Barn to ourselves, which gave the conversation a rare sense of ease and depth in a venue designed for private events and known for pairing wine with food from local catering partners, along with a wonderful roaring fire.

Around the table, people were exploring career pivots, how to show up in new roles, how to market themselves or their business, and sometimes something less tidy but no less important: “Can you help me get to the bottom of the thing I can’t quite name yet?” The half-formed question is often where the most useful conversations begin in 9others-style dinners.

Thank you to everyone for offering sharpened thinking, honest reflection, and generosity to listen well and ask great questions.

Last night had all of that, and I left grateful for the people round the table and for independent local venues like Vinotopia that know how to host with real care (and recommend some fantastic wine!).

Next one will be in May - date to follow. Link to all my courses and events in bio.

Fabulous to be hosting this! Looking forward to it 🍴🍷

🍷 A good meal with 9others - Cotswolds

They say that business problems are best solved over a good meal, and we couldn’t agree more. We are thrilled to be hosting Katie Muldoon and the 9others community at The Wine Barn this March for an evening of connection, conversation, and collaboration.

As Roland Rudd once said: "There’s no better way to take a relationship to the next level than a good meal in the right setting."

The concept is simple: 10 people (you plus 9 others) sharing a meal and brainstorming the challenges that are keeping you awake at night. Whether you are looking for a fresh perspective or want to help others find a way forward, this is the perfect environment to forge lasting business relationships.

The Details:
📅 Thursday 19th March 2026
⏰ 18:30 - 21:30
📍 Vinotopia, The Wine Barn, Nailsworth, GL6 0BS
📍 What3words: crackled.glorious.juggles

What’s included:
✨ A delicious sharing meal
🍷 Half a bottle of wine per person
🤝 Access to the 9others Slack community post-event

Success requires the aid of others - come and find your solutions here at the Barn.

🎟 Book your seat here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/9others/2037293

Storm Goretti promised the South West a snow day… but here in Gloucestershire it turned out to be mostly a bit wet and windy.

If your New Year is getting off to a similar start, with work: finding yourself hopeful -> mildly inconvenienced -> disappointed -> carrying on.

Then maybe there’s a pivot you’re considering, or a leadership challenge you can’t quite name yet - don’t wait for “perfect conditions”.

Come test it at a 9others meal. At 9others we meet over dinner and help each other with connections, perspectives and lived experience.

What’s one idea you want to pressure-test before January disappears?

We’ve got a few seats left - come join us!

Link in bio

Last year, my theme was connection.

It showed up in the people I spent time with, the conversations that lingered, and the work that felt properly alive. I’m carrying that into 2026, just in a different form.

This year’s theme is noticing.

I’ve been writing a book on leading in an age of AI, and it’s hard. Not just the time and discipline, but the vulnerability of it: sitting with half-formed ideas and trusting they’ll turn into something coherent.

What’s surprised me most is what arrives while I’m writing.

A scene from a film. A line from a book. A memory from years ago. In the moment, it feels distracting but I journal the thought.

Then later, on a dog walk, making tea, doing something mundane, I see it. The thread. The link. The sentence I couldn’t write suddenly becomes obvious.

I keep coming back to the Scots phrase “Whit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye” as I write the book. Maybe in this case that’s what this process is teaching me: trust what returns, and be patient enough to see why it came.

Maybe it’s because my cat Hector posed with the coaster 🤷🏻‍♀️ ☺️

I’m deliberate and decisive but I’m not naturally patient.

So this is my practice for 2026: slow down enough to notice what’s trying to connect.

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January events - come join me!

Links to all tickets in bio

Monday 19th January . Part of the Amitypath movement. A relaxed short stroll at 1.15pm every 3rd Monday of the month to meet new people and connect in Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham. *Guest hosts for January will be Sarah Manley and Nigel Knowlman*

Thursday 22nd January 9others meal at 1830 - Established in London on 8th December 2011, 9others has now grown to a network of over 5,000 entrepreneurs in over 45 cities around the world. We meet over a meal and help each other by sharing connections, experiences and different perspectives.

Me: Do not compare myself to others

Also me: compares my social media reach with my dog’s social media reach.

Instagram told me my views were “way up” in December and, for a brief moment, I thought: finally… the algorithm has recognised my earnest offerings to leadership theory and the human condition in the age of AI.

Then I looked at Milton’s (my dog) account.

He got the same message for the following views:

Mine: nearly 700. His: nearly 7,000.

And his account is largely devoted to the frustrations of an otherwise perfect golden retriever life - chief among them: the scandalous underpayment of the cheese tax.

My business Instagram is hopeful and earnest: short reflections, meet-ups, a bit of theory, and the occasional attempt to make sense of why smart people still do baffling things at work.

Milton’s Instagram is unabashedly honest: “I was promised cheese.” “I received vibes.” “I will be taking this up with management.”

In LinkedIn style, what’s my takeaway?

- The market rewards a clear value proposition: Milton’s is “golden retriever with strong feelings about dairy.”

- Authenticity scales: nobody is asking Milton to “add more value” to he is simply, loudly, himself.

- Comparison is optional: Milton isn’t benchmarking. He’s busy auditing the snack budget.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be in a negotiation with a golden retriever who believes he’s underpaid, undervalued, and one cheddar cube away from industrial action.