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Explore expert insights on leadership development, organisational transformation, and coaching excellence. Our downloadable resources offer in-depth articles, thought leadership, and expert insights.

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Breaking Free from the Drama Triangle: For Leaders and Teams

We humans love drama. Our brains are wired for it. The ancient storytelling traditions are built on it. Netflix is a product of it. Drama captivates and fascinates us. In the workplace, it shows up as corridor gossip, complaining, blame, cliques and exclusion, resistance, power games, grievances and grudges, apathy and outright conflict. Very few organisations are without it…

ICF Competencies: A Foundation for Coaching with Integrity

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) lays out a set of competencies that keep coaching grounded in integrity and professionalism. These principles help coaches form genuine, trust-filled relationships that make a real difference in their clients’ lives.

Mastering the ICF competencies equips you to have conversations that allow clients to uncover what really matters to them…

Reflecting on 2024: The Foundation for Leadership Growth in 2025

Reflect on your year as a leader by looking back to understand what worked, what didn’t, and what needs to change. As the year ends, it’s a chance to review how your decisions and actions influenced your organisation, your team, and your leadership growth. This process helps you identify lessons from the past year and turn them into clear actions for 2025…

Refining Your Leadership Approach: Strategic Questions for 2025

Leadership is a journey of constant learning and adaptation, and as we step into 2025, the questions we ask ourselves hold the key to shaping our impact. Reflecting on past experiences, assessing team dynamics, and envisioning the culture we want to build are vital steps in refining our leadership approach…

Some ideas we live by…

“An organization cannot evolve beyond its leadership’s stage of development.”

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”

“Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first.”

“I came to see … that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.”

“I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.”

“Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.”

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