Authentic Leadership is so 1990s!!

08/01/2025

I remember attending a leadership transformation programme in the mid 1990’s where we explored our authentic styles as leaders and how powerful authenticity could be as a driver for organisational change. As with many others on the programme, I then felt the disappointment…

Resilience: reshaping the stories we tell ourselves about our bad experiences

09/12/2024

Resilience: Leadership is tough today. Challenges are thrown at us every day at breakneck speed and many leaders go home at the end of each day thinking they’ve succeeded in some but failed in others. Resilience is key to surviving and flourishing as a leader and as a…

"Johnny is useless, he needs coaching"

05/11/2024

Is that coaching or not? What is coaching anyway? Every Olympic team and athlete has at least one coach. Every Pro Tour player has a coach. Every Premiership Team has a head coach, same for Championship teams. How come?

Six steps to inspire truly joined-up leadership in your business

15/07/2024

I run a leadership development programme called Curated Leadership Conversations. I meet with leaders, put a leadership topic, concept or tool on the table and then we talk about it in the context of their business.

What topics do coaching clients typically bring into sessions?

08/07/2024

This is a question I often get asked by potential and new clients. Below, I have tried to summarise some of the most common themes, in no specific order:

Who needs Executive Coaching?

02/07/2024

Or as Marshall Goldsmith said “What got you here won’t get you there”! Many of us are successful, until we get a new role that requires something different. We find the old success formula doesn’t work, we are without the tools to be effective in the new environment.