Present is published.

The book is out.

Present: Human Communication at Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is now available in paperback, hardback and ebook on Amazon.

It started, as some of you know, as a doctoral thesis. It ended up as something I hope is considerably more useful — a practical guide, written for people at work, to the eight skills that make the real difference in professional communication.

The argument in one line: artificial intelligence is getting very good at a great many things, and being human with another human being is not one of them. The skills that sit in that space — presence, trust, genuine attention, the conversation that changes something — are not just surviving the rise of AI. They are becoming the most valuable professional assets of the decade.

The book is for experienced professionals who already do the work and want to do it better. It draws on thirty years of running workshops with people in exactly that position, and on the research that explains why some kinds of practice change behaviour and others don't.

If you'd like a copy, it's on Amazon now. And if you read it and it lands — a short Amazon review, even one or two sentences, is the single most useful thing you can do. It's how books like this find the readers they're written for.

Thank you to everyone who supported the writing of it. You'll know who you are.

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