One life. All of it. Coffee included.
Hi, I’m Leigh.
Consultant. Cook. Curious about the why.
Food, living with CRPS, a home that works for me and the day job. It all sits at the same table.
Pull up a chair.
Pick what brings you here.
01
No Spoons to Cook
Practical food for real life and changing energy levels.
02
Food Odyssey
Recipes, heritage and the pleasure of feeding people.
03
Living with CRPS
Plain talk about pain, everyday life and advocacy.
04
Home & Accessibility
Making a home easier to live in, and still mine.
05
The Valiente Group — Change & OCM
Organisational change management: contracts, advisory, short projects and mentoring.
From the journal.
Change & Work
The Essentials has no ladder. Someone will build one anyway.
ASD has replaced the Essential Eight’s maturity levels with Essentials, and I’d bet someone builds a ladder out of it anyway. Here’s…
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AI as an accessibility tool: what’s working, and what I’m still curious about
A friend asked whether someone could adapt their skills with AI and keep working. Here’s my take, and where I’m still curious.
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Enabling MFA without locking people out
A personal phone can quietly become a condition of doing your job. Nobody announces that the rules have changed. I support stronger…
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Podcast in development
Living with the beast.
Navigating with no spoons.
Honest conversations about chronic pain and everything that happens between appointments.
The day job
Degeeking the geek.
I run the Valiente Group, helping people make sense of complicated change.