At a recent session at the ESPC conference, I took the stage to discuss something incredibly fundamental: wellbeing. Taking inspiration from my professional journey as a consultant and coach at Search Explained, coupled with my personal experiences, I navigated through the importance of nurturing our well-being. In my consulting work, my approach has always incorporated the human perspective. Beyond the professional layer always lies an essential human connection – the enrich

I made a mistake recently. Yes, I did: over-committed. I did more workshops in the first three months than I did the previous six months in total. Traveled for 31 days in the first 80 days of the year. I had projects from last year being postponed and delayed until everything had to be done at the same time. And like a domino, my schedule collapsed. I did not have time to write. Not here, not in my professional blog either. The only thing I kept more or less alive was my In

When I was a child, I was always amazed to see the airplanes flying on the sky. I dreamed about a life when I can afford flying over the clouds and see the world. Nobody I knew that time had ever taken a plane, so I didn’t know how it feels and what it looks like in the inside, and couldn’t discuss my dream with anyone. But I didn’t give up. I kept dreaming. Fast forward more than three decades, I am thinking about this dream today. As I have this title “Travel Craziness” wri

Recently, I’ve been asked this question: “My productivity has been shot the past two days. I am feeling pretty overwhelmed, alone, and depressed. What do you do when you are feeling this way?” I answered this personally of course, and I thought, this is actually something which we all deal with from time to time, so I thought I would share my expanded thoughts here on my blog. When I analyse what I do, I’ve found that it is actually a little strategy comprising of three thing

I am a busy consultant. I run my own business. I have two little children. We live in a big family house with a small garden backyard where there’s always lot to do. Yes, I am always busy… My TO DO list is always long, sometimes maybe a bit longer than I would have liked. Sometimes, the unexpected happens. One or both of my kids get sick. I get sick. My laptop goes wrong. Flight delay. Traffic jam. — Anything you can imagine. Or even more… I’ve been trying several ways of tim

I’m sitting in my home office, watching the melting snow outside and thinking about playgrounds. No, there’s no playground on our backyard (yet), but I’ve seen a blog post recently that started me having a kind of nostalgia… The story is that my very first “real” job was in the ArchiCAD team at Graphisoft. As soon as I joined in 1999, I’ve got to be a member of the GDL Team (Geometrical Description Language), and my first task was to learn this language in depth, obviously. I

More than two years ago my life has changed dramatically: I “crossed the ocean” — started working for BA Insight as a Senior Search Solutions Consultant. It’s been one of the best periods of my professional life: I learned and experienced a lot, worked with outstanding colleagues on very nice projects. Could not be more thankful to Jeff Fried and Guy Mounier for allowing me to be part of their team; to Inna, Tucker, Chris, and many others, for being such great colleagues! It