Standfirst: What if the strongest leaders are not those who command the most power, but those who create the deepest sense of purpose, dignity, and belonging? This feature explores how Ubuntu offers...

The hardest part is not recognizing the old script. It is keeping the pen in your hand when the old script comes back for it. There is a version of transformation we love to celebrate because it photographs...

Over years of facilitating applied improvisation, leadership programmes, and team development workshops, I have come to appreciate something that I initially underestimated. While participants pay attention to...

Something has shifted. You can feel it even if you haven't named it. Not a trend. Not a cycle. Something underneath the surface of all of it , the uncertainty, the acceleration, the exhaustion, that is...

You built the brand. Refined the message. Made yourself easy to understand. It worked. People found you. Trusted you. Followed you. Now something underneath that identity is pressing outward. Quiet at first...

Much of the conversation about AI has focused on productivity. How much time can it save? Which tasks can it automate? How many people can an organisation operate with if AI is doing some of the...

There is a version of success that looks exactly right from the outside and feels completely wrong from the inside. The calendar is full. The team is growing. The metrics are moving. And the person...

Organizations spend enormous resources trying to improve communication, collaboration, leadership, and workplace culture. Teams attend retreats, hire consultants, complete personality assessments, and participate...

The day before my 40th birthday, I stood in the entryway of my new home holding a set of keys that represented far more than a real estate transaction. They represented resilience. They represented courage.

I feel so blessed and also heartbroken. How is it possible? This isn’t the first time I’ve written about bittersweet. A while back, I wrote a review of a book that touched me deeply, Bittersweet by Susan Cain...

In aviation, abandoning an approach is not failure. It is one of the most important decisions a pilot can make. The best leaders understand exactly why. To passengers, it feels unsettling. To an inexperienced...

In today’s corporate landscape, communication is often treated as a purely transactional mechanism, a tool for moving deadlines, delegating tasks, and distributing metrics. However, an organization’s...

That ceiling is not made of circumstance. It is made of script. You have done everything right. You have invested in coaching. You have read the books, attended the retreats, built the systems, and...

For much of my life, I believed that growth was an individual pursuit. Like many people, I subscribed to the idea that if I wanted something badly enough, I simply needed to work harder, push further, and figure...

From time to time, I find myself reflecting on a pattern that appeared in places that, at first glance, had very little in common. Part of my professional life has been spent advising organizations...

Have you ever heard of “butts in seats” leadership theory? Me either. Yet, in the post-pandemic, increasingly distributed world of work, we are constantly navigating the complex, often emotionally...

Management is often experienced in vastly different ways, shaped by individual expectations of support, structure, and control. Yet beneath these varying perspectives lies a deeper question of whether...

Many of the rights women enjoy today did not emerge because society gradually became more enlightened. They exist because women refused. Women refused exclusion. They refused violence. They refused...

Your phone buzzes. An email lands. A Slack notification pings. Your brain splits three ways before you've finished your first sip of coffee. This is the modern workplace, and presence has become a...

If you’ve tried to find a better balance but still feel exhausted, you’re not alone. Many high-achieving women leaders are told they need better work-life balance, but that balance often fails when the deeper...

Want to stop losing your top talent? It’s time to change the career development playbook. In high-performance sport, an athlete’s career development needs and transition support needs aren't treated as afterthoughts.

Leadership today looks very different than it did even ten years ago. Across industries, organizations are experiencing unprecedented turnover. The average employee tenure is now just 2.3 years. That means...

Every leader I meet has made the same quiet act of faith. We believe that if we want a behaviour, we measure it. Put it on a dashboard, attach a target, review it every quarter, and people will do it...

A returning mother sits across from her manager on her first day back. She is told, kindly, that things will “go back to normal soon.” The implication is unmistakable. Something ‘happened’ to her. Something...