Insights and reflections
This is the Jamie McAnsh insights space. I want to bring together the thinking behind my work as a speaker, consultant, and advocate for inclusion.
Here, I share reflections shaped by lived experience, adventure, resilience, mental health, and workplace culture, alongside practical insight drawn from real work with organisations across the UK and beyond.
Some pieces are deeply personal. Others are focused on leadership, inclusion, and systems. All are written with one aim in mind: to help people and organisations think differently, act with intention, and build environments where individuals can genuinely thrive.
From insight to impact
Alongside reflection and lived experience, I also share how these ideas are applied in the real world.
The content below is shaped by work on keynote stages, public platforms, and within organisations, as well as through partnerships and practical tools designed to support real change.
This is where insight moves beyond reflection, connecting values, action, and impact in ways that are grounded, relevant, and human.
Some of the professional organisations Jamie has worked with
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Guided Client Onboarding HubSpot Accreditation
Guided Client Onboarding HubSpot Accreditation is more than a badge or a line on a profile. For me, it represents a deliberate commitment to doing onboarding properly when I assist a client with a professional CRM build. I want the process to have clarity, structure, and humanity at the centre. Too often, onboarding is rushed.…
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Achieving My AI Essentials Badge HubSpot
Achieving my AI Essentials Badge HubSpot marked a meaningful step toward continuing to blend technology, inclusion, and practical leadership in my CRM work. AI is no longer a future concept or a shiny add-on. It is already shaping how we communicate, analyse, include, and lead. I wanted to understand it properly, not just talk about it.…
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Why I Sometimes Use Tickets Instead of Deals In Hubspot
Practical CRM design for real operational clarity When people think about CRMs, they almost always jump straight to deals. However, you can use tickets instead of deals in HubSpot Deals pipelines. Sales stages. Forecasts and revenue projections. Yes, deals are critical when money is moving. But here’s the truth I’ve learned from years of building…
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Psychological Safety in Leadership: Why Performance Depends on Feeling Safe
Psychological safety in leadership is not about comfort or lowering standards; it is about creating the conditions where people can speak honestly, take responsibility, and perform at their best. If People Don’t Feel Safe, They Won’t Perform Psychological safety is not a soft add-on to leadership.It is the foundation that performance stands on. Yet it…
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In loving memory Lynda and Alan McAnsh : How My Parents Shaped the Values I Live By
I am wearing a new bracelet In loving memory Lynda and Alan McAnsh. My parents and my greatest mentors, friends and supporters. It is simple. Black. Quiet.Engraved with the words: In loving memoryLyndaAlanMcAnshMum & Dad xxxxxxx I did not buy it to make a statement. I wear it as a reminder. A reminder of who…
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Leadership Lessons from the Mountains: Why Titles Mean Nothing at Altitude
Leadership lessons from the mountains are simple, uncomfortable, and impossible to ignore once you have experienced a place where titles, ego, and hierarchy mean absolutely nothing. The mountains do not care what you do for a living. They do not care about your job title, your CV, your following, or how important you feel in…
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What Data Leaders Actually Need (and What They Don’t) | Clarity Over Complexity
What data leaders actually need is not more dashboards or smarter tools, but clarity about what matters, how decisions are made, and how data supports real leadership. In my experience as a consultant, I have found that most organisations are not short on data. They are drowning in it. However, they fit this data into…
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Inclusion Is a Behaviour, Not a Policy | Building Inclusive Workplace Culture
Most organisations have an inclusion policy. From my experience as a consultant, I have found that fewer organisations exhibit inclusive behaviour. That gap is where culture either grows or quietly fails. You can have the best-written policy in the world. Perfect language. Board sign off. A page on the intranet. But if people do not…
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What Paralysis Taught Me About Resilience Through Momentum
Resilience through momentum is rarely about dramatic breakthroughs; it is built in the quiet moments when you choose to keep moving, even as everything slows down. We all have a summit to reach. For some, it looks like a mountain.For others, it looks like getting out of bed.For many, it is simply staying in the…