Write with a problem, not only a title

Most of the useful letters I receive start with a problem rather than a role. If you chair a nomination committee or work as a search partner and are filling a non-executive seat at a water utility, health insurer, customer-owned bank or similar household-facing organisation, tell me the committees involved, the expected calendar and whether your organisation has any dealings with Wirrandel Energy, so that I can check conflicts before we speak.

I am also glad to hear from financial counsellors and consumer advocates who see the effects of energy-data decisions, from data leaders in other essential services working on hardship or automated-decision questions, and from regulators' staff who want a practitioner's view. I give a few talks a year and prefer small rooms with time for disagreement.

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