This month we’ve had lots of meetings with senior stakeholders from the client team, updating our progress on individual projects within the larger programme and explaining any barriers so we can try to come up with solutions together. Sometimes the...
I’m at a turning point on my current project where I feel settled after a few months and things have become much easier. After 2-3 months you often get to that point where you know the clients and your team...
It’s far too cold for March still – which means I walk to my client office at 6am with my ski gear still on. However the great thing is our hours are 6am-2pm at the moment (working times vary by...
I spent some time in January finding my feet in a front-line operational environment. Swapping my dresses and heels for trainers and high visibility vests, it was far easier to decide what to wear in the mornings! This experience really...
For the first time since my three and a half years here, I had a lovely wind down to Christmas. Our deadline was moved to earlier in the month, which meant a tough two weeks getting the documents out and...
The summer months saw me roll straight from a project in Wales to a project in a completely different Sector based in Reading. This is despite belonging to the London office – often you have to go where the work...
Three months went pretty quickly – I was due to finish a few weeks ago but as is quite common on projects the client asked to extend our support for a couple of weeks so I should be finishing at...
Last summer, four Senior Associates PwC were sponsored by the organisation (myself from the Advisory practice, which Consulting sits in) to attend a global conference called ‘One Young World’. It’s a platform for ‘future leaders of tomorrow’ to share their...
For the first time I took a two week holiday and it was a great way to properly switch off. Normally I just go away for a week, it takes me a couple of days to wind down from work...
Having finished a pretty tough project in the defence sector last month I jumped at a new and very different opportunity that came up in the education sector. The only slightly less convenient factor being it was based in Wales....
