Sarah Moore: Why showing your vulnerable side matters

'We need to sit with the discomfort we’ve experienced'

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Auxilium Partnership's head of proposition, Sarah Moore, writes about why the protection space needs to get comfortable with both its own and its customer's vulnerable side

Following the seven minutes I spent on screen for the ProtectX3 event earlier this month, I had a lot of emails and texts from friends and industry colleagues. They were commenting on how refreshing it was for someone to have acknowledged their own anxiety. While I was touched that so many people had taken the time to comment, I was also deeply saddened that at a time of heightened stress, uncertainty and incredible challenge for all, most people still choose not to acknowledge that they are vulnerable. Isn't it terrible that people are so afraid to express how they're feeling, that w...

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