At Fresh Perspectives NE, we’re excited to launch a bold new approach to culture change and leadership development: our 90-Day Challenges. These challenges respond to the reality that businesses are facing today: low engagement, rising presenteeism, stalled productivity – costing the UK economy billions every year. Too often, solutions focus on individual perks, apps, and one-off workshops…
We’re reaching a tipping point. While headlines scream productivity crisis and talent shortages, we keep throwing the same solutions at the wall – more apps, more wellness perks, more fire-fighting. Meanwhile, the cracks in our working culture deepen. Low engagement, rising presenteeism, burnout and retention woes are no longer HR issues anymore. They’re economic ones….
As Founder of Fresh Perspectives NE, Jane Fisher is delighted to be speaking at UK Startup & Scaleup Week 2025, taking place in Sunderland from 2–6 June. A brilliant celebration of energy, innovation and entrepreneurship across the Northeast region. It’s a real honour, for Jane and the Fresh Perspectives NE Movement, to be part of such a…
The Science of Walking and Creative Thinking– Based on research by Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz, Stanford University We often say we need to “walk through a problem” – but what if that’s exactly what our brains need? A fascinating study from Stanford researchers Marily Oppezzo and Daniel L. Schwartz provides compelling scientific evidence…
In today’s fast-moving, complex business environment, leaders are under pressure to do more than just keep up. They need to think clearly, creatively, and ahead. So strategic thinking is no longer a periodic activity confined to annual retreats; it’s a continuous process that demands mental clarity, focus, and perspective. But here’s the challenge. Most corporate environments aren’t designed…
Productivity is big business. From apps and hacks to planners and pomodoro timers, we’re surrounded by tools promising to help us think faster, act smarter and work better. But one of the most powerful productivity tools available to leaders and their teams is surprisingly simple. It’s Nature. Just stepping outside, ideally for 29 minutes or…
In the natural world, rewilding means allowing ecosystems to return to their wild, untamed state – where nature leads, adapts and thrives without over-control. So, what if we applied that same thinking to leadership? For in my view, too often, leadership becomes over-managed, boxed in by routines, meetings and expectations. We strive for order and…
Thirteen business leaders, one brilliant walking guide, and one adventurous photographer – our merry crew set off from The Sill for a refreshingly different kind of meeting: our latest Business Netwalk – a Barbarian’s Walk. From the outset, this wasn’t your average networking event. Swapping suits for boots, we left the visitor centre behind and made our way…
We often imagine breakthrough thinking happening in high-pressure meetings, scribbled across whiteboards, or hammered out over hours of deep focus. But for Steve Jobs, one of the greatest creative minds of our time, clarity came through a much simpler practice: if he couldn’t solve a problem in ten minutes, he walked away. Jobs would deliberately stop,…
The physical and mental health benefits of being outside in nature are well documented. But what about the benefits that go beyond the physical and mental? What about the benefits that, if harnessed, make problem solving and learning more successful for leaders, strategic thinking more creative, decision making more effective, and teams much stronger? Can…
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