Articles

  • Personally Speaking - Anyone can be an entrpreneur in Staffordshire

    by James Routledge
    First published in The Sentinel on 16/07/22 Personally Speaking – Anyone can be an entrepreneur in Staffordshire James Routledge: Founder of Sanctu...
    Posted in startups, stoke

  • Moving to a Sanctus Board Role

    by James Routledge
    In 2019, I began talking to my Coach about my role within Sanctus.

    3 years later, after a £4.25m investment round I've moved to a part-time Board & Brand role and it feels great.
    Posted in sanctus, startups

  • Sanctus raises £4.25m

    by James Routledge
    I’m delighted to announce that we’ve raised £4.25m in investment led by ScaleUp Capital. (See the Sanctus announcement post here) It’s been a while...
    Posted in sanctus

  • Published Writing

    by James Routledge

    Here's an up to date list of all my published writing. 

  • What it's like to write a book.

    by James Routledge
    Last week I got my hands on the first copies of my book and it felt amazing. Writing a book for me was always a dream, although not a goal, it wasn...

  • Founder, not CEO

    by James Routledge
    In November I decided to step aside as CEO of Sanctus and we hired an exceptional new CEO (Chris Slater). It’s 7 months on and I’ve had more reflec...

  • Recognition

    by James Routledge
    Founder & Leader loneliness and the desire to be recognised. One of the things I’ve struggled with over the years is my desire to be recognised...

  • Being bored

    by James Routledge
    I’m sitting on the District Line listening to Beyond by Leon Bridges. My hot breath is tickling my eyes as it travels up and out my mask, I’m not a...

  • Goals

    by James Routledge
    I didn’t write this weekend. It was a Saturday and I wanted a day off. I’d challenged myself to 30 articles in 30 days, I suppose I didn’t say whet...

  • What is enough?

    by James Routledge
    I’m finding writing this one the hardest, it’s day 5 of writing 30 articles in 30 days and I imagine writing on a Saturday and Sunday might feel to...
    Posted in mental health

  • I got knocked off my bike

    by James Routledge
    This is why it's important to talk about the "stuff" that happens to us.  ^ here's Kevin, my first bike in London.    This is my fourth article i...
    Posted in mental health

  • Conscious vs Unconscious Motivations

    by James Routledge
    ^ This is me at 23/24 founder of my first business, matchchat. It was all about the logo on the office wall. We all have conscious and unconscio...