Leadership
Develop your leadership potential with insights and strategies from our expert contributors, to help you excel in leading others. Whether you're a seasoned manager or aspiring to take on a leadership role, learn essential skills such as effective communication, listening, and team building. Discover how to motivate and inspire your team, navigate the challenges of hiring and recruitment, and implement successful management practices. Enhance your leadership capabilities and drive your team to success with expert guidance and practical advice.
How to Engage When Someone Openly Disagrees with You
Disagreement has been confused with disrespect in our minds. They are not the same. In leadership, business, education, healthcare, construction, boardrooms, and family dinner tables...
The Secret Sauce Behind Stories That Truly Stick
Stop. Did I just read those stats right? I scanned the screen again, this time slower, letting the numbers sink in. My top five performing articles were staring back at me quietly, without judgment...
Why How You Show Up Matters More Than What You Know
We often overestimate how much executive presence is about what we know and underestimate how much it is about how we show up. In reality, executive presence is roughly 20% knowledge and 80% presence...
How Successful Leaders Build Trust Without Losing Authority
Leaders often share with me their frustration about not being listened to or trusted and ultimately not getting the results they want. This frustration does not reflect a lack of competence. More often...
What Japan Taught Me About Speaking With Calm and Authority
I’ve just got back from Japan, and there’s one small detail I can’t stop thinking about. Not the temples, the food, or the neon, but crossing the road. In Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, the cities felt calm...
The Blueprint to Becoming Someone Worth Listening To
Let’s be honest, thought leadership has become one of those buzzwords that gets thrown around like confetti at a branding workshop, loud, flashy, and often hollow. Forbes even called it the most annoying...
Why Couples Building Together Need a New Way of Working in 2026
The way wealth is created is changing. More businesses are built around people rather than systems. Media brands, advisory firms, service-based companies, and intellectual property now depend on trust...
10 Life Lessons from a King's Vision on Finding Harmony and How to Apply Them
I have just finished watching the new Amazon Prime documentary Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision. These are ten lessons from His Majesty’s work, lessons that we can apply to our own lives, regardless...
Why Psychological Safety Is Widely Discussed, and Rarely Designed For
Psychological safety has become one of the most frequently cited ideas in modern leadership. It appears in strategy documents, leadership programmes, culture initiatives, and executive conversations...
Debunking Leadership BS and Exposing the Truth Behind Common Leadership Myths
Over the past decades, an industry has emerged claiming to know how workplace relationships should function. A multimillion-dollar industry, generating staggering revenues through books, courses, seminars...
Embedding Resilience into Organizational DNA Before the Next Disruption
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the past few years, it’s that disruption isn’t a matter of if, i t’s a matter of when. Whether it’s a global pandemic, economic downturn, technological revolution...
Unshakeable Confidence Under Pressure and 7 Neuroscience Hacks When It Matters Most
Unshakeable confidence is not loud, it is steady. It is what lets you think clearly, speak calmly, and make decisions when the stakes are high and the room is watching. If you have ever felt confident in...
8 Behavioural Patterns Driving Burnout And Leadership Struggles
Burnout and leadership stress are rising, even as organisations invest more than ever in wellbeing, development and performance optimisation. This raises an important question, why do the same struggles...
Why Leaders Are Living in Extremes
Pressure has always lived inside leadership. Most leaders accept it as the price of responsibility. But a pattern I’m seeing more often is that the shape of pressure has changed. Not abruptly or...
Internal Authority – The Leadership Muscle Most People Never Train
Most leadership training starts in the wrong place. It begins with a how-to. How to communicate better. How to influence. How to manage performance. How to lead change. These programmes are often...
Why A Mentor Is Not Here To Be Liked
Linda Schneider is a Curandera and Independent Mentor for Conscious Human Development with over twenty years of experience. She specializes in helping people unravel self-destructive patterns and work...
What We Bury, and What It Costs Us
There are parts of ourselves we are comfortable sharing. We speak easily about experiences that have shaped us in visible, socially acceptable ways. Travel, career moves, moments of growth or opportunity.
Crossing Ponds Across Globes – A Mission Carried by Trust
Young entrepreneurs are often encouraged to move fast, scale quickly, and remain constantly visible. The message is loud and persistent: if you are not seen, you are falling behind. Yet visibility alone...
The Power of the Clearing – Making Space to Lead into 2026
As 2025 draws to a close, most of us are conditioned to do one of two things: rush to finish, or rush to plan. But wise leadership, of self, others, and systems, asks something else: Stop. Clear. Reflect. Reset.
If I Could Have Dinner With One Historical Leader – Why I Would Choose Marcus Garvey
Recently, during an interview, someone asked me a question that made me pause longer than expected: “If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be and what would you ask them?”
Think Like a Greek – The Ancient Art of Everyday Courage
The ancient Greeks had a very particular way of defining courage. It wasn’t the stuff of battlefield glory or dramatic quests. It wasn’t reserved for epic tales or heroic legends. Instead, they believed...
Finding Your Flow and Aligning With Your North Star in Authentic Leadership
In the forest, a clearing offers space to breathe, reflect, and choose again. That’s where we began in my last article, creating space to stop what no longer serves, continue what aligns, and begin what...
How Experts Can Scale Their Business Without Burnout – 5 Systemic Steps and Real Case Studies
Burnout among experts and entrepreneurs rarely comes from a lack of energy or motivation. More often, it’s a sign that the business model no longer matches the level of scale you’ve reached.
Japanese Knotweed Agency and Thomas Atkinson – A Year of Innovation and Impact
In a world where sponsorships are often reduced to logos on kit and quick promotional posts, some partnerships stand out for a different reason: they represent something bigger. Shared values.
No Girl Left Behind Is Remaking Empowerment and Expanding Across the United States
There’s a reason empowerment has become a major cultural conversation, confidence is eroding earlier, women are carrying heavier loads, and too many people are expected to “figure it out” in...
The Unapologetic Leader – Why Your Happiness is Your Greatest Strategic Asset
In the world of high-stakes leadership, there is a dangerous myth that persists: that the more you sacrifice your personal well-being, the more "dedicated" you are to your mission. We’ve been conditioned...
From Self-Judgement to Self-Leadership – A 6-Step Guide to Managing Your Inner Critic
That voice in your head isn’t just you being hard on yourself, it’s your Inner Critic! And it can quietly sabotage your confidence, wellbeing and leadership (even when you’re doing well). This 6-step guide...
The Thriving CEO Playbook – How to Say No Without Burning Bridges
Thriving as a CEO isn’t about doing more. It’s about knowing when to say no. This article explores why clear boundaries, strategic refusal, and disciplined focus are essential leadership skills, and how...
How to Use Fashion to Align Your Identity With Your Personal Brand
Fashion is rarely trivial. It is a tool of self-expression, a visual language, and a psychological lever. What we wear communicates identity, values, and confidence before a word is spoken.
The Dinner Table is a Leadership Classroom
There are moments that don’t look like leadership moments. They look like standing in your kitchen, tired, hungry, already stretched thin, staring at a plate of food you didn’t choose and don’t really...
Do I Actually Belong Here, or is the System Broken?
Have you ever questioned whether you truly belong at work, especially when doing the right thing comes at a cost? This article shares a personal experience of navigating toxic workplace dynamics, being...
The Father Wound Success Women Don't Talk About
The father-daughter relationship quietly shapes our inner landscape in ways we often don't recognise until adulthood. While society has begun acknowledging the mother wound, the father wound remains largely...
A Birthday Adventure Queen Searches for Her Golden Valentine
What begins as a cryptic message on a mobile phone evolves into a dreamlike birthday adventure filled with luxury, fashion, devotion, and intrigue. This story weaves chance connection with romantic...
From Runway to Boardroom – How Shreyaa Sumi Is Redefining Modern Leadership Through Creative Influence
In today’s business landscape, one shaped by rapid change, global interconnection, and the rising value of emotional intelligence, leadership is no longer defined solely by traditional corporate...
Beyond the Glitter – Why Modern Pageantry Is a Masterclass in Leadership
If your only exposure to the world of pageantry is a three-minute clip of a "viral fail," a minute of glamour, or a reality show featuring high-strung stage parents, you're missing the most interesting...
What Tomorrow’s Employees Expect That Organizations Aren’t Ready For
One of my aunts recently shared a horrifying recruitment story with me. She had been approached by two recruiters, and after a few conversations, she realized they were from two different recruitment...
Quiet Quitting or Burnout Fallout – How to Reignite Engagement Through Purpose
Let’s talk about something that’s been bubbling up in workplaces everywhere, disengagement. By now, you’ve probably heard the phrase “quiet quitting.” It’s become the go-to way to describe employees...
The Great Police Exodus and Why Smart Companies Are Recruiting Former Officers
When crisis becomes opportunity: How the exodus from policing is creating an unprecedented talent pool for private enterprise. The statistics are sobering. Police officer departures have reached record...
Hiring Right – What Nonprofit Boards Need to Know Before Appointing Their Next Executive Director
When it comes to nonprofit leadership, few decisions carry more weight than hiring the right executive director. Yet, too often, boards approach this critical step with good intentions but limited...
Unlocking 5 Secrets To Keeping Your Top Talent
In today's competitive job market, opportunities abound for talent with exceptional skills.
Struggling To Grow Your Teams? Consider Fractional Hiring
As a business owner, you know your business can only be as successful as those who work for you.
Modern Hiring Is Broken Through The Pursuit Of Perfection
There is a good chance that you know someone who is in the midst of the most challenging job search of their life.
Intentional Connection – The Practice of Showing Up for Others
Creating conditions for others to thrive requires more than good intentions or generic support. It requires genuinely understanding who they are, what they need, and how they work best.
The Cost of Carrying Too Much – Why Senior Leaders Absorb What They Should Architect
There is a predictable shift that happens as leaders rise. Early success is built through effort. You step in. You decide. You carry what others cannot yet hold. Progress accelerates because...
The Leadership Ripple – How Your Energy, Decisions, and Habits Shape Your Team
Leadership is often measured by outcomes, performance, targets, delivery, and growth. But outcomes are never the starting point. They are the result of something deeper and less visible...
From Shedding to Stepping Forward – Leadership Lessons from the Year of the Snake and the Year of the Horse
This year is the year of the snake. Not as a symbol of loss or failure, but of shedding what no longer fits. For a long time, I believed leadership meant pushing forward, through exhaustion, through illness...
Corporate Culture – How We Co-Create a Healthy Culture in Organisations
In a world defined by constant transformation, hybrid workforces, rapid technological advances, shifting generational expectations, and global competition, organisations are recognising that culture is not...
Why Every Hospital Must Adopt Memory Care Training – A Call to Protect Our Patients and Our Staff
Dementia care is no longer confined to memory care units. It is present in every hospital department, and too often, staff are left without the practical training needed to communicate, de-escalate, and...
How to Build Trust in the Workplace
Trust is often framed in terms of integrity. However, integrity alone does not create trust. Trust is also shaped by relationships and the culture people experience day to day. When work becomes overly...
How to Ace Your Next Presentation
When I was in Grade school, public speaking was part of the curriculum. Everyone from Grade 4 onwards was required to deliver a fully memorized 3 minute speech in front of the class.
Why Recovery Is Non-Negotiable as a Speaker
I was recently flying back from Houston, where I had spent the day directing two of my VIP clients for an intensive filming session on set. We'd done deep work crafting their stories, refining their...
Let’s Talk About the Power of Common-Unity
In today’s rapidly changing world, organizations often struggle with disengagement, isolation, and the growing epidemic of workplace loneliness.
What Public Speakers and Performers Can Learn From Elite Athletes
Are you in it for the long haul or for overnight success? In a world where instant celebrity is yearned for, quick success is pined after, and easy wins are applauded, this question becomes more relevant...
You Don’t Need a Crown to Have Gravitas – Why Authority Is a Choice, Not a Title
What gives someone gravitas? Most people assume it comes from seniority or status, the job grade, the title on your email signature, or the visible signals that suggest influence. But these are surface...
The Confidence Gap – Why So Many Brilliant People Stay Invisible
Many brilliant professionals stay unseen, not because they lack talent, but because they mistake readiness for confidence. This inspiring piece explores how self-doubt disguises itself as humility...
Confidence Isn’t a Personality Trait, It’s a Muscle
Confidence isn’t born; it’s built. Lisa Sheerin PCC reveals how practice, repetition, and voice training create authentic self-belief.
