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The Art of Public Speaking

The era of stand up public speaking, with cue cards and auditoriums full of people may belong to the bygone days of school public speaking competitions and the dreaded stand-up …

Inspiring leadership in 2021

For the past 2 years I have contracted to two organisations, both for respective pieces of coaching work. Both are expanding organisations, in spite of the pandemic and both have …

Belonging and wellbeing

As we move in South Africa into the peak of our second COVID-19 wave, I am aware of the continuum of responses to this surge in the pandemic in our …

Leadership Agility

Corporate conversations these days seem to be peppered by the term ‘agile’ and being no IT guru, I won’t hazard an attempt to explain Agile methodology to you (though my …

Resilience in an age of uncertainty

One of the key words of this pandemic must have been ‘resilience’.
It’s a little like the secret elixir that will protect you from the ravages of change, and yet one …

Teaching courageous leadership…

This weekend I had the opportunity/obligation to attend an NPO AGM with my eldest son. It was the first such opportunity to do so and given that my son had …

How do employees co-create leadership?

I haven’t heard from leadership guru, Peter Block, in a while and I managed to catch him looking a whole lot older, (and sounding even wiser, if it is possible) …

Nomophobia – 8 ways to beat it

In working with a really focused, action-oriented client recently, we again encountered the invasiveness of our friend the cell phone. Because he doesn’t have time to go scrolling through internet …

A bridge too far

As I sit down to blog, another tumultuous shower is lashing my window as the week lives up to its name, at the southern tip of Africa of The Cape …

Returning to work…with children in the house

Today I began my day connecting early with a client on the northern tip of my continent, who has a child on the autism spectrum. She waits on tenter hooks …

What are you happy to leave behind?

As I was preparing for a ‘resetting’ workshop with one of my clients today, I was struck by one of the questions recommended for a team undergoing change…dare I mention …

Are you an Enneagram Sceptic?

Among the many things I appreciate about Brené Brown is her almost irreverent scepticism for several ‘holy grails’, which in her latest podcast includes the enneagram! As an enneagram practitioner, …

Some key questions for our time

There have been a few articles and webinars of late that have aroused my interest in challenging that getting back to ‘normal’ is not the right place to go. There’s …

Covid Creativity

I was lucky enough to hear an interview with author Elizabeth Gilbert of, “Eat Pray Love” fame. It wasn’t something that I thought was vitally important on my agenda, but …

What lockdown teaches us about motivation

One of the many benefits of being one of the ‘haves’ in lockdown, is that there is  a lot of free material around, which is normally inaccessible or expensive.
My love …

Enabling more space and capacity in 2020

I think the Master of this subject must be Arianna Huffington, and so here I extract from her New York Times article to profile her 10 favourite tips to improve well-being …