How Our Executive Coaching Programmes Strengthen Mental Fitness

In today’s fast-paced business world, executives and senior leaders face immense pressure to perform, make strategic decisions, and inspire their teams. But peak performance isn’t just about technical skills and business acumen—it requ...

Stay at the top of your game with this tip. 
 
Experience is your ticket to play—it gets you in the room, but it no longer defines success at a leadership level. Knowledge may start the conversation, but how leaders execute is what sets them apart. 

Leadership effectiveness is about shifting gears to t...

Hands up 🙋‍♀️—who wouldn’t love a lighter workload? 

Leadership effectiveness isn’t just about crossing items off your to-do list; it’s about focusing on tasks that truly move the needle. The ones that create real business impact versus those that just bring the satisfaction of “getting things done.”...

Modern leadership is often lived on autopilot and blurs our sense of self. 

These questions can trigger an insightful and essential journey of self-discovery. 
 
💡 Who are you? 
💡 What do you stand for? 
💡 How do you prioritise what's most important? 
 
Impactful and fulfilling leadership requires clarity ...

Secret insights to leadership transformation that accelerate your business impact 

Lately, I’ve been deeply involved in coaching globally dispersed leadership teams to enhance their effectiveness by identifying new ways of collaborating. 

One thing I’ve learned through this work is that transformation...

The answer might surprise you. 
 
The leaders I work with consistently tell me their biggest challenge is not prioritising their health. The drive to achieve, get ‘stuff’ done and be available means they run out of time for what is at the core of it all. 
 
We all know that our health impacts our physic...

Our natural tendency is to go into action and problem solving too quickly and that becomes the blocker of impactful executive coaching.

A natural response is ‘what can I say about this problem to add value, what have I experienced that helps solve this problem’ What happens in this context, by shar...

I recently watched a fascinating TED talk by Atul Gawande a surgeon who wanted to push the boundaries of coaching to see if he could improve his complication rates. He had looked at other areas of highly skilled professionals from the world of sport and music and noted the impact a good coach could ...

In the first of six forthcoming leadership lessons, I’ll be sharing a weekly tip on how you can reset, reboot and rejuvenate your brain for the week ahead.

In this week’s clip we are looking at how to approach leadership effectiveness through the lens of kindness and love and the impact that can ha...

In this week’s Leadership Lesson, we are looking at the science that talks about the impact of exercise on the brain and how we can maximise our leadership effectiveness.

Exercise

We all know how important exercise is to our physical strength, but what would you say to the science that says withou...

Jim Rohn (the self-made millionaire, mentor to leaders and author of many best-selling power of self-discipline books) is thought to have said that

‘YOU are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.’

When I combine this statement to one of my favourite behavioural science quotes...

Identifying senior leaders has changed. The traditional corporate pedigree that used to open the door to the c-suite is no longer a major determinant for securing top jobs.

The capabilities required of our new breed of leader means often the ‘softer’ and less easily recognised skills are now toppin...

Sometimes when life turns things upside down for you in your career it can actually be a golden opportunity, if you choose to lead the way.

“The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that ...

January can be a challenging month for many CEOs and leaders and for those at the top of the c-suite, the pressure to galvanise a team into action can be challenging. Here are 5 ways you can re-energise and refocus your leaders for the year ahead.

Communicate with clarity in the chaos 

The start o...

The past few years have taught us all that change can happen at any moment so why do so few organisations invest time in succession planning for their senior leadership team?  Leaders leave, sometimes with little or no notice.

The Great Resignation has impacted every sector with more senior leaders...

In today’s faster-paced and ever-changing leadership environment, leaders face unique challenges when it comes to navigating uncertainty. Uncertainty has been around for some time, and it is the norm, but what has changed is the speed at which change occurs and the expectation to perform.

Leaders a...

Why should I return to the office when I can work from here?” …

Schools are out, the holiday season has arrived, and the demands on our leader’s time, flexibility, and the option to work from home is a hot topic for discussion.  This challenge remains front and centre for many of the leadership org...

Success: These results may surprise you.

According to a recent HBR article, 49% of people promoted internally are underperforming up to 18 months after those moves. McKinsey reports that 27% to 46% of executives transitioning to a new role are regarded as failures or disappointments two years later...

What happens when you put high-performing individual experts together as a team?

• Outstanding output?
• Progressive Performance?
• Dysfunctional Dynamics?

‘We need help! We are individually incredibly talented. They are outstanding performers, great minds, and have achieved a lot in their careers...

We’ve all had them in our teams. Those outspoken, challenger leaders who want to push the boundaries, go rogue, thinking at a hundred miles an hour and wanting to drive a new initiative before anyone can digest it, leaving a disgruntled, alienated team behind.

Love or loath this, like Marmite, divi...