Tell Your Story

Ans Aspden — Co-founder & CEO, Stable Resources Ans Aspden, co-founder and CEO of Stable Resources, reflects on twenty-six years at the BBC, the accidental career she shaped on purpose, and the moment she finally chose to leave it all behind. Key moment: After twenty-six years at the BBC, building a career she had never planned but had learned to love, Ans Aspden made the decision to leave and step fully into Stable Resources. It was a decision that had taken years to reach. Her father told her the hardest part was always getting there. Once made, a weight would be lifted. He was right. Key lesson: Being in the room matters, even when you cannot see why. Every skill acquired across a long career, even the ones that feel irrelevant, will arrive exactly when the next path needs them. About the guest: Ans Aspden is the co-founder and CEO of Stable Resources, a Microsoft-focused technology resourcing company she built alongside her husband Dave. She spent twenty-six years at the BBC, beginning just before her 18th birthday by accident, and rose to lead digital and interactive teams across major brands including Doctor Who and a factual project pitched to NASA. She formally joined Stable Resources eleven years ago and has led its growth into a team of over 100 people. She is also a trustee of Adoption UK, where she has run peer support groups for adopted adults for more than a decade.

Dave Aspden — Co-founder & CIO, Stable Resources Dave Aspden, co-founder and CIO of Stable Resources, shares the moment in 2001 when a simple question from a client became the unlikely starting gun for a company that is now 25 years old and still growing. Key moment: In 2001, Dave was about to sign a contract with a new client when they asked one question he had not prepared for: what is the name of your agency? He asked for two days and used this timee to found Stable Resources. Key lesson: Opportunities rarely arrive in a form you recognise. Sometimes the only qualification required is the willingness to say yes and work out the rest quickly. About the guest: Dave Aspden is the co-founder and CIO of Stable Resources, a Microsoft-focused technology resourcing company he founded in October 2001 alongside his wife Ans, who is now its CEO. What began as a one-person contractor operation has grown into a business of over 100 people. Dave has spent his entire career working with Microsoft technologies and has been a supplier into Microsoft since the company's earliest days.

David Rowley — Host, Tell Your Story David Rowley introduces Tell Your Story, a podcast exploring the moments in people's careers where something shifted, told close to how those moments actually felt at the time, not how they tend to sound in hindsight. Key moment: There is a gap between how a significant career moment tends to be described in retrospect and how it actually felt from the inside. That gap is what Tell Your Story is built to explore. Key lesson: Stories simplified into clean narratives lose the part that matters most to anyone still navigating their own journey: the context, the uncertainty, and the reasoning made with limited information. About the guest: David Rowley is a technology leader with more than 25 years working with Microsoft technologies, including over a decade inside Microsoft and currently UKI Microsoft Practice CTO at IBM Consulting. Tell Your Story is his podcast exploring the defining moments in people's careers, told close to how they actually happened.