I’m an Aquarian Wood Dragon which is meant to be good by all accounts.  Anyway, I try to minimise the time I spend listening to astrology videos on Youtube in case life passes me by whilst waiting for the positive stuff to happen.  There’s a couple of things I’m proud of … owning chopsticks and a wooden spoon from Vietnam and once I was pushed out of a plane when doing a parachute jump for charity.  Is that a mix of an introvert and extrovert?

I was brought up in Birmingham, UK.  What a great place with great people.  My accent is quite broad and was subject to much ridicule in previous times although not so much these days as I don’t think this stuff is allowed 🙂

In my spare time I like to swim and go for walks.  Just the simple stuff really, like walking round a park and enjoying the different seasons.

I remember Gangsters by The Specials being released and the school just went mad.  Many years later I’m co-ordinating a conversation between Rawtrachs, a West Midlands DJ, and Horace Panter of The Specials.  This was after Rawtrachs had been involved in my art work called Coffin which asked what people would be saying goodbye to at the funeral of England.  I’d made this work after seeing the EDL and UAF clashing on the streets of Birmingham in 2010.  The work is soft sculpture and people have responded to the question with poetry and performance and you can see some of the footage on a Facebook page here.  Coffin 2010.  Rawtrachs had said that he thought that music unifies people and mentioned The Specials and that’s how I ended up getting in touch with Horace.  Here’s a link to the conversation.

The reason I created interactive art work was so that people could respond to it and the work developed this way.  With Coffin there is a Condolences Book that accompanied the work and people left their messages in there.  This was an interesting piece of work and people from minority groups and with mixed heritage took part in the work.  I was interested in how people related to England and what they would be saying goodbye to.  This work was part of Walsall Arts Fest events and you can see footage on Facebook too.

So, basically, I’ve enjoyed bringing people together to share ideas and thoughts and I like to bring this into my work in Human Resources as well.  Listening is so important in the workplace as is mediation and we all want to be happy and supported in what we do.

I’ve lived in Plymouth, London, Hong Kong and Australia.  I’ve enjoyed meeting lots of different people along the way and working with different people.  Travel is good for the soul.

I hope this is enough to at least make you intrigued.  Please get the ball rolling by Whatsapping me on 07949 777462 or complete the form on here (best to follow up with a phone call though).  I can work locally or remotely through email.

Many thanks,

Carolyn