Professional development
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Academic career development
Strategic planning and development for academic careers
Email management for academics
Systematic approaches to handling academic correspondence effectively
Time management for academics
Transform your workday with sustainable working practices and systematic time management
AI-powered practice growth
A full-day workshop for the International Private Physiotherapy Association's business meeting in Hamburg, run as four linked sessions: how AI actually works and how to prompt it well, building content for a real client group, getting that content found and trusted, and drafting a three-year business plan. Delegates build a single practice file across the day, using their own practice as the input, and leave with a persona, a piece of content in five formats, a communication plan, and a draft growth plan. Every exercise runs on free-tier tools.
Better than, or better with?
A panel presentation for the South African Society of Physiotherapy's 2026 Symposium, on ethics and the use of AI in physiotherapy. Argues against framing AI in healthcare as a capability contest to be won or lost, and asks a more uncomfortable question: whether keeping the human in the loop is sometimes less about patient benefit than about our own discomfort with the alternative. Closes with concrete ways to bring AI into the clinical conversation rather than manage it as a threat.
New therapeutic alliances
A panel presentation for the South African Society of Physiotherapy's 2026 Symposium, on AI and the future of physiotherapy education. Patients are already arriving at consultations having consulted AI first, and are increasingly capable of getting genuinely useful health guidance from it. The talk asks what this means for practice, research, and education — not whether AI will replace clinical judgement, but how the profession prepares students and practitioners for patients who bring an AI-shaped health literacy into the room.
Introducing Path, a CPD portfolio app
Path is a CPD portfolio app that shows you what you're missing against the standard you're working towards, rather than only showing you what you've done. It began as a two-weekend prototype and has grown into a real, hosted web app that maps your claims and evidence against any framework — a promotion, a fellowship, a regulator's CPD standard — and shows you the single highest-value thing to do next. It's still a closed, invite-only alpha, and the waiting list is now open.
Building a CPD app with Claude Code
Most CPD tools are built for compliance, not development. I wanted something that started from the gap; what am I missing, and what would close it? I couldn't find the tool I needed so I built one called Path instead. It describes what I think professional development should look like, and what two weekends with Claude Code produced.
Making sense of AI in clinical practice
An invited webinar for the Musculoskeletal Association of Chartered Physiotherapists. Explores what AI means for physiotherapy practice across the full information ecosystem of clinical work — from AI-assisted diagnosis and documentation to patient agency and the therapeutic relationship. The central concept is context sovereignty: AI systems work from professional context, and controlling that context is both the distinctive human contribution and the most practical skill for the AI age. The session covers the evidence for AI performance in clinical contexts, strategies for maintaining professional agency, how to actively support patients in using AI well, and how the therapeutic relationship is changing as practitioners and patients develop persistent AI agents.
Path
Career progression, by design. Path treats professional development as a direction you choose, not a filing cabinet for what you've already done. Pick a standard to aim at — a promotion, a fellowship, a regulator's CPD requirement — gather evidence as you go, and watch a substantiated case for your next step build itself. One model serves CPD audits, fellowship and promotion applications, regulator validation, and student portfolios alike. A hosted prototype is live at pathcpd.com, in closed pilot and heading toward a commercial build.
AI Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals
More than 10,000 healthcare professionals have taken the courses I've created for Physiopedia Plus. This post focuses on the AI Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals Programme — a practical introduction to AI in clinical practice, education, and research. Physiopedia Plus members get full access, and a 30% discount code is included for new sign-ups.
Email backlog anxiety: it's not the emails — it's not knowing their shape
Dense periods leave a residue — not the urgent things, which get handled, but everything else that quietly accumulates. The email backlog anxiety this produces isn't about workload. It's about the unbounded unknown. Understanding the difference changes how you approach the clearance.
Introduction to AI with Copilot
An internal staff development session for the CPC team introducing AI through Microsoft Copilot. Covers what AI is and isn't, safe working practices, structured prompting with the RGID heuristic, and hands-on practice — with the goal of each participant leaving with one specific task to try that week.
AI and evaluative judgement: Cultivating taste in the age of capability
When AI can generate text, images, and ideas at scale, what remains distinctively human? This post argues that evaluative judgement—the capacity to assess what is worth creating, what deserves attention, and what matters—becomes the core human contribution in knowledge work. Drawing on research into evaluative judgement in health professions education, it explores how educators can make this capacity explicit and deliberately develop it, rather than treating it as an invisible by-product of experience.
AI meeting scribes, organisational memory, and new governance structures
AI meeting scribes are increasingly being adopted as productivity tools, automatically transcribing and summarising organisational meetings. But who controls these records, and who benefits from perfect organisational memory? This post explores how AI meeting scribes can entrench existing power dynamics by giving those in authority unprecedented access to communication patterns, informal decision-making, and dissent—all rendered visible and retrievable without those present realising the implications for how organisations are governed.
Context sovereignty: building human-AI coalitions in physiotherapy
The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy's annual Founders' Lecture, arguing that the question facing the profession is not what AI can do that humans cannot, but how practitioners shape the context in which human-AI collaboration happens. The talk opens with the disorienting evidence that AI now matches or exceeds clinicians on diagnosis, empathy, and ethical reasoning, then rejects the defensive 'sanctuary strategies' this provokes. Its central idea is context sovereignty: because language models are stateless, static, and contextless, the professional context a practitioner brings is not a comfort but a structural necessity — and controlling it is the distinctive human contribution. It closes with the coming shift to patient context sovereignty and the work of meaning-making in an ambiguous moment.