Most of my day to day work at the office involves meeting with other people. Sometimes are more of a “one to one” thing whilst in other occasions meetings become a crazy get together with more than 10 people sitting around the table… or on the phone lines, as we live in the era of conference calls and videoconferences.

July 2018 was the start of a new chapter of my life. After 10 years in a multinational organisation, working in change management and having my own team, I decided to change everything *ha! the irony!* and start from scratch.

After two years renting in Edinburgh, my husband and I realised very quickly that the money we were paying every month to the landlord would be better invested in something else. It was 2013 and our rent for a 2 bedroom flat was £800, plus all the bills and council tax on top *expensive alert!*.

I began my professional career and girl boss life working in a recruitment company. Several hours of my day were spent reading CVs and also interviewing potential candidates before deciding whether they had all the skills and experience required by our end client, usually big multinational companies looking for the best talent available.

It was Friday night and Paris was buzzing. After an exhausting day, we were very hungry and decided to grab something quick at Saint Michel and go to see the Eiffel tower at Trocadero. My sister wanted to try a kebab and I was happy with her choice. We queued in a small restaurant and she ordered first. I went second and explained that I wanted a kebab without any meat parce que je suis vegetariene.

The first time I heard about a Steering Group (SG) I was in my mid-twenties, working for a huge financial institution on a merger project. I was an assistant to a project manager and one of my tasks was to ensure that the SG had everything they needed to understand the health of the project: financials, latest updates, project risks, assumptions, dependencies and issues… and a big long etc. As years went by I have become accustomed to the concept but it was only some time ago that I realised that having a SG could be useful for my own life.