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Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. It’s a conversation I’ve had with more than a few senior leaders lately. When you’ve honed your craft over years and stepped into more senior roles, you don’t suddenly lose your subject matter expertise. It’s still there,...
“We Could See What Was Happening and We Were Too Slow to Move.”
You know it’s beautiful thing when the team you’re working with can see the patterns without you having to point them out. And even better when they can pinpoint the exact moment that things shifted, positively or negatively. Standing around a rough timeline drawn on...
Mind the gap: You’ve got a strategy or a business plan – is it really driving every day activities in this time of global and local inflection?
Now it could be my reticular activating system (you know when you’re buying an electric car you suddenly notice they’re everywhere) on hyper alert, but since writing my white paper on Inflection Leadership last month, I’m noticing more and more leaders talking about...
Accountability and the Autocratic Trap
In the last few months, I’ve had the privilege of coaching some brilliant leaders and facilitating deep work with their teams. Across sectors, roles, and leadership styles, one challenge keeps surfacing: Accountability. Or more precisely, the lack of it. Leaders are...
What High Performing Teams Are Doing Right Now
July / August is choc-a-bloc with teams re-setting and realigning for the new financial year. My industry colleagues and I are busier than ever which is always a good thing! While things might feel a bit uncertain for many businesses (I’m hearing a little bit of...
You Can’t Lead Strategically Without This One Habit
What I’m noticing is my ever-decreasing attention span when I’m doing ‘deep thinking’ kind of work. It’s been a gradual creep and now I’m admitting I am easily distracted and if I’m not careful, I’m checking LinkedIn (because that’s work related hey!) or FB or Insta...
Your Message Matters More Than Ever. What Your Team Really Needs to Hear Right Now
There’s a lot of noise right now. Economic doom. Profit warnings. Supply chain dramas. Tariffs. Risk. Recession. The headlines are loud, persistent and heavy. And they’re landing on leadership teams already stretched to capacity. The weight of it is real. And what I’m...
Everyone’s Talking About A Shift. At a Crossroads? Here’s What to Do Next
What I’m noticing in just about every conversation with leaders right now is this: everyone’s talking about a shift. A turn. A moment where something’s changing - in the business, in the team, their career, in their own leadership. I describe it as being at an...
Overwhelm Is the New Normal But It Doesn’t Have to Be. Feeling Swamped? Ask Yourself These 4 Questions
Leaders everywhere are drowning. And what I’m noticing is that overwhelm is fast becoming the default state, and it’s not surprising. When we’re at inflection points in business and life, when there are choices and changes to be made, we’re usually faced with a...
Stuck at a Turning Point? This Might Be Why
You know, it could simply be that it’s the word I picked for myself this year (that one word or value I want to bring into everything I do in my business) but I’m noticing a real need for an injection of courage in leadership right now. I’m seeing businesses facing...
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