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Leadership
Teams
Bringing organisational culture to life
When did you last reconnect with your colleagues? I don’t mean on Zoom or rushing between a work meeting. I mean in person, with space to talk, plan, laugh and learn. If you ask people what makes...
Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Is your organisation having a positive impact?
As we mark the anniversary of one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the global risk landscape feels more volatile than ever. Our emergence from the pandemic was quickly disrupted by new war in Europe...
Change
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Is your organisation having a positive impact?
As we mark the anniversary of one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, the global risk landscape feels more volatile than ever. Our emergence from the pandemic was quickly disrupted by new war in Europe...
Adventure
Leadership
Teams
Bringing organisational culture to life
When did you last reconnect with your colleagues? I don’t mean on Zoom or rushing between a work meeting. I mean in person, with space to talk, plan, laugh and learn. If you ask people what makes...
Change
Failure, vulnerability, and the true nature of change
In our fast-paced, digital world of instant gratification, change can often connote something rapid, spectacular, or even epiphanic. But in reality, change is not an event but a process. And this is...
Change
Organisational culture change: Engaging the key players
When it comes to launching a culture change initiative, who exactly should be involved? This is a common question, and the answer is everyone! An organisation’s culture is owned by everyone who works...
Leadership
When was the last time you learned something new?
'It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.' – Carl Friedrich Gauss In the pre-pandemic days of face-to-face...
Leadership
Talent
Wellbeing & Personal Development
What failure can teach us about success
In business, failure is as much a part of life as success, if not more so. Entrepreneurs are often driven by high achievement and, therefore, can feel setbacks deeply, but when handled in the right...
Change
Leadership
Teams
Question everything: the nature of curiosity in communication
Over the course of my coaching career, I’ve come to understand how much the words we use reflect our values and impact our relationships. Understanding each other is crucial when working effectively...
Leadership
Leaders develop leaders: How to develop leadership capacity in your organisation
Change has always been, and will always be, a constant. But in the last couple of years, this change has accelerated considerably. The raft of current global challenges, including climate breakdown...
Leadership
Talent
Onboarding remote employees: Employee and employer perspectives
The shift to remote and hybrid working caused by the pandemic has been a huge disruption to the traditional onboarding process. Welcoming a new team member to an organization in a remote environment...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
Teams
Avoiding isolation in remote workers
How do you stay connected? Don’t you feel isolated? Don’t you worry that your team is not really working? These are just some of the questions I have received while leading distributed or remote teams...
Change
Leadership
Learning agility: A key differentiator for leaders
Even before Covid-19, a leader’s ability to adapt and thrive in rapidly changing environments was a widely recognized requirement. And now, as we approach a post-pandemic future characterized by...
Leadership
The inner game of leadership
Popular dialogue around 'noticing' as a leadership skill largely focuses on encouraging people to pay more attention to what is going on around them, intending to increase awareness of others and the...
Digital & Technology
Leadership
How to foster a learning culture in a hybrid world
Fostering a learning culture is key to achieving the agility needed to succeed in the current business landscape. An organization’s ability to adapt is dependent on its people’s ability to learn, spot...
Leadership
Management Development
Enterprise leadership for organisation-wide success
What is enterprise leadership? In this increasingly volatile world, enterprise leadership has become an essential attribute for any successful organization. But what exactly is it? Enterprise...
Leadership
Sustainable Innovation
Business as a force for good
Reading this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer report, I started to reflect on what we have lived through over the past two years. A global pandemic and war in Europe are pretty severe in themselves, but...
Change
Organisational culture change: the importance of having faith
We know that organizational culture change is possible. However, we also know that achieving lasting change requires a lot of effort. Organizational culture is an emergent property of how the people...
Leadership
New senior leadership: A time for listening
The drivers of ongoing change continue to impact organizations, resulting in expansions, acquisitions, transformations, reshuffles and more. One of the outcomes of change is plenty of senior leaders...
Change
Leadership
A human approach in a hybrid age
In a previous role, I was the HR director for a non-profit organization called Safe Harbor, which provided outreach services to survivors of domestic violence. My role primarily involved supporting...