Author: Tom

3 Wishes for Enterprise WordPress in 2023

By Tom on March 3, 2023 — 2 mins read

WordPress has achieved amazing things in the Enterprise market, by many measures it’s one of if not the most popular CMS even amongst the largest companies in the world. But it could be so much more and to maximise the opportunity we need to present a coherent and compelling message. Enhancing Communication, Collaboration, and Integration…

Redundancies at Human Made

By Tom on February 13, 2023 — 1 min read

Over the past few weeks we have been through a redundancy round at Human Made for the first time ever and some amazing people have left the company. I wanted to talk about this openly for two reasons: In the spirit of sharing openly and in-case it’s useful to others in our space, here is…

2022

By Tom on January 6, 2023 — 2 mins read

Personally 2022 was a pretty tough year. In Feb Leanne was diagnosed with breast cancer and we spent the rest of the year with our heads down taking the treatment one step at a time, treatment was a grind that we knew we just had to get through. Thankfully the surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy were…

How I use Pulse Surveys to gather feedback as a CEO

By Tom on September 8, 2022 — 1 min read

Last year I ran a monthly pulse survey to gather regular feedback from everyone who works at Human Made on my performance as CEO. It gave me a useful way to track a number representing how folks across the company perceived I was performing as CEO, whilst the absolute numbers weren’t so meaningful, it was…

Human Made: Summer Update

By Tom on August 29, 2022 — 1 min read

This originally started as a Tweet, but then I remembered blogging is back! We’ve had a busy summer at Human Made and I’ve had some time off so haven’t been sharing. Some highlights: We soft-launched a new website for Human Made along with an overdue refresh of our brand colours. So far I really like…