It is commonplace for managers and team leaders to spend considerable time working through their team’s capability and capacity. However, a critical, costly and often overlooked component that deserves our full attention is connection.  Psychologists, from Maslow to Baumeister, have stressed

Having a positive and expansive mindset is a skill that is valuable at every stage of your career.  In a world that is being disrupted at unprecedented rates, an expansive mindset is essential to navigating challenges and enables leaders to create

We can move from awareness to transformation, but it can only happen with a dual focus on mindset and action. We need to create the space to pause, reflect, unpack and reconsider. Self-awareness and reflection (on your current mindset) is a good

Before the coronavirus struck, it was clear that success and thriving in the ‘20s requires new, innovative, agile approaches to business (and indeed life), that are fundamentally different to those of the past.  The drivers of this change are individuals with

The pace of change and disruption is calling for an inventive approach to leadership development.  It’s not about polishing the old ways or tweaking the edges. These complex environments and dynamic systems demand a complete reset - a new

“Having someone I could trust to have open discussions, helped me navigate complex leadership and organisation structures.  (Vanitha) enabled shifts in my thinking when unpacking challenges to reframe them as opportunities.”  Leadership development is not about cascading change (from the top),

“If one connection can change your life then, what happens when 100 like-minds are connected and charged with the skills to catalyse their individual and collective potential?”  The 21st century has gifted us a complex environment, dominated by a flux of

Navigating complexity and uncertainty of post pandemic work and life. Whilst organisations and leaders are forging new approaches, new kinds of leadership, it is equally important that individuals are given the opportunity to re-cast their path through disrupted, complex and uncertain

If we endeavour to meaningfully engage with and steer complex systems rather than simply allowing ourselves to be subjected by them, then we must define a new leadership vocabulary to navigate the post pandemic ‘norm’. A global executive study and research

New study looks at understanding the 4Cs of leadership - Conductor, Catalyst, Coach, and Champion. Research confirms that, “the pandemic has accelerated a pre-COVID-19 shift in how individuals and teams do intellectual work.”1 Since the onset of the pandemic, our collective notion

Traditional models of leadership, change and transformation assume that our problem solving, innovation and lateral thinking capabilities have evolved in step with advances in technology and other signs of civilisation. The pandemic has exposed this assumption. Chair of Global Alliance in

 ‘A hacker is someone who always assumes that one part is broken.’  John Wilshere, Founder of Smithery. Simply put, hacking is about observing a condition, finding the gap, shifting the dial and implementing focused adjustments, to make things better. History has many

Focused observations + adept listening +adaptive thinking + lateral problem solving = Leadership Extrovert are often seen as more creative than introverts even though “…there is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas. Zero! ” Susan

The 21st century has gifted us a complex environment, dominated by a flux of unprecedented threats and challenges.  The challenges are here to stay, but we can eradicate the threat through discipline, focus, reasoning and engagement. Traditional models of leadership, change

Sensemaking is perceiving, making sense of, and acting upon the environment and events around us. This especially relates to new and unfamiliar stimuli. In business organisations, this helps people prepare for the future, or respond to events for which there

Talented professionals like you know they have more in the tank…You are aspirational, ambitious, purpose-driven and drawn to make a difference. Career transitions at every level – from technical or delivery excellence to a larger span of influence and complex roles

Hello, Research maintains that only 5% of leaders have the capacity to both sense-make and make sense of systemic complexity and to lead transformational change.  We know that attention needs to be given to develop the mindset, capabilities and impact required