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Redundancies at Human Made

Over the past few weeks we have been through a redundancy round at Human Made for the first time ever and some amazing people have left the company. I wanted to talk about this openly for two reasons: In the spirit of sharing openly and in-case it’s useful to others in our space, here is…

2022

Personally 2022 was a pretty tough year. In Feb Leanne was diagnosed with breast cancer and we spent the rest of the year with our heads down taking the treatment one step at a time, treatment was a grind that we knew we just had to get through. Thankfully the surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy were…

How I use Pulse Surveys to gather feedback as a CEO

Last year I ran a monthly pulse survey to gather regular feedback from everyone who works at Human Made on my performance as CEO. It gave me a useful way to track a number representing how folks across the company perceived I was performing as CEO, whilst the absolute numbers weren’t so meaningful, it was…

Human Made: Summer Update

This originally started as a Tweet, but then I remembered blogging is back! We’ve had a busy summer at Human Made and I’ve had some time off so haven’t been sharing. Some highlights: We soft-launched a new website for Human Made along with an overdue refresh of our brand colours. So far I really like…