From January 2012 I will revert to being self-employed again. My choice after many years within one organisation, it is time to re-connect with my more idiosyncratic self and explore new issues to get my teeth into…

But far from being less busy – it looks as if I will be more so. Already contracted to undertake work for the International Business Leaders Forum, The Partnering Initiative and the Partnership Brokers Association… and with work abroad in Ghana, Australia and Bangladesh in the first part of 2012… it may not be so different from my last 20 years after all!

Nevertheless, the experience of letting go, handing over, stepping back has been instructive (perhaps I am more of a ‘joiner’ than I thought) and I am finding this ‘limbo’ period as anxious-making as it is exciting.

I am a great advocate of ‘reflective practice’ and have spent a good many years encouraging others to keep ‘logbooks’ of their professional development journeys… so this journal will be my attempt at keeping a log book to chart the course of whatever comes next