Articles

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mental Health at Work

    by James Routledge
    Sign up here to get early access to my book on mental health in the workplace.
    Posted in mental health

  • Money £££

    by James Routledge
    This post was originally shared on my newsletter, to get posts like this directly to your inbox, sign up here.  "If you live for having it all, wh...
    Posted in mental health, money

  • Raising investment (my experience)

    by James Routledge
    I’ve raised investment eight times. Whilst starting two businesses and shutting one down. I’ve been in the land of startups for nine years and I k...
    Posted in sanctus, startups

  • I got engaged.

    by James Routledge
    At the end of last year (on Boxing Day), I asked Sarah to marry me and got engaged. She said yes thankfully :)It’s hard to say, yet I think if I wa...
    Posted in mental health

  • Stepping down, not up (part 2)

    by James Routledge
    (This post was originally shared a week ago to my newsletter list, if you want early access to articles and stories like this straight to your inb...
    Posted in mental health, sanctus, startups

  • Stepping down as Sanctus CEO

    by James Routledge
    Why I stepped down as Sanctus CEO, the story and inner journey of how I got there.

  • Creating an online mental health community

    by James Routledge
    Creating an online mental health community tl;dr: I’m opening up early access to our new online mental health community 😅 You can sign up for we...
    Posted in sanctus

  • Trying to make sense of it all

    by James Routledge
    Sanctus’ first company retreat. 24 of our 50 person Tribe. Trying to make sense of it all My experience of building Sanctus. My experience of bu...
    Posted in sanctus, startups

  • Raising £265,000 — the complete picture

    by James Routledge
    Sanctus Coaches coming together for their Risk Assessment Training — we’ll be doing more of this this year. Raising £265,000 — the complete pict...
    Posted in sanctus, startups

  • £1m in revenue, all on gut feel

    by James Routledge
    The Sanctus Coaches (+ me) £1m in revenue, all on gut feel For some time I’ve wanted to tell the story of Sanctus growing profitably, yet I’ve f...
    Posted in sanctus, startups