Thoughts for Leadership
What came first, reputation or culture?
For those who know me, you’ll know this has been a journey over a decade in the making. Since 2012, my relentless curiosity about organisational culture - and how the balance of masculine and feminine energy shapes it - has led me deep into the fascinating interplay...
Coaching during Change & Transformation
To Risk Self
As I dive into my MSc studies this month, I am reminded of the the poem 'To Risk' by William Arthur Ward. It educates me to take risk with my learning and writing this year for sure. A coach can only coach to level of self-awareness they already possess, and so on...
It’s September – Happy New Year!
Is anyone else like me, someone who regards the true New Year as September, and not January? Of course, this may be a throwback to school-days conditioning when a September new school year usually comprised ‘new’ teacher, shoes, pencil case, and classroom. September...
No more Snails Pace!
Leadership and leadership character is poor globally. Many should not be allowed to run a bath, never mind run a country or an organisation. I wonder if there is a different way to change the world for good? Not through quotas, barricades, marches, destruction and...
The Coaching Bench
Coaching offers a bench space to explore, to talk, to listen to yourself to gain insight, and know the way forward that is right for you. The coach is not your chosen visitor on the bench, the coach guides you to the bench, creates the right environment, and then...
The Sanctuary of Coaching
Coaching is the new sanctuary. In the past our ancestors would turn to religious leaders, village chiefs, and other wise counsel, to speak in confidence to another who did not judge nor get involved in fixing. Today, coaching and the space it offers for quiet...
Coaching from the Hearth
Lately I have been curious about what makes a great coaching environment; one that allows the client and coach to do their very best work together. I couldn’t have predicted the path I would end up meandering as a result of my wandering wonderings, although I am happy...
Email needs a Holiday too!
A CEO Coaching Client said to me one day, “I hate going on holiday, because I will just come back to a full email box, and twice the workload. It is easier to just stay at work and not have leave.” That kind of wonky thinking is exactly what needs to be challenged,...
A VOW for my 3rd3rd
Save the Date: 3rd September 2025 My goodness, how quickly did 60 arrive? It seems no time since my 21st birthday, my birthing 30’s, exhausted 40’s and liberating 50’s, and now I have entered a new decade marking the 3rd3rd of my life. My business is 27 years old in...
