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Forging meaning and building identity

Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of adversity, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since. In a moving, heartfelt and at times downright funny talk, Solomon gives a powerful call to […]

As TV presenters prepare for Euro 2016 …

It’s that time again. For the next month or so, football fans across Europe will be glued to their television sets as they follow their national team’s progress through the Euro Championships taking place in France. Along with the ebbs and flows and highs and lows that come with watching your home team slug it […]

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 […]

What makes a good conversation?

When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don’t converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy […]

How evolution tints our perception

Beau Lotto’s color games puzzle our vision, but they also spotlight what we can’t normally see: how our brain works. This fun, first-hand look at our own versatile sense of sight reveals how evolution tints our perception of what’s really out there. “Let there be perception,” was evolution’s proclamation, and so it was that all […]