Heroic Leadership is often part of quiet leadership, very powerful, because of how rooted, grounded and connected it is. In this article you can meet my hero (recently deceased) and contemplate who are your role models.
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Hybrid Working is a game changer for culture change in the future of workplaces. This article explains a really useful tool for successful facilitation of deeply difficult issues involving culture change. It offers a way of ‘re-planning your strategy’ and ‘analysing how things go off piste’, A healthy learning culture can be built using this tool.
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This article explains how to develop systems thinking and gain systemic insights. I take a human systems approach and enable you to look at the linkages between family upbringing, rejection, acceptance and financial principles that are embedded in value systems.
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Are your staff, or partners heading towards burn out? Are you seeing significant signs of 'Strain Zone' fatigue building up? In this blog i share the insights about being Strategic about your Time and Energy.
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This article is for trustees, Directors, founders, Public Appointees or Ministers of government. Our call to action is simple. Your response to the climate crisis should be a standing item on every boards agenda. You could call the agenda item ‘Code Red for Humanity - our response’, so that you can take behavioural change one meeting at a time.
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In this article I use my personal life experience to explore the governance practice of ‘follow the money’. As it is also true that some of our fundamental values-in-action are shaped by our personal life, very often in our family tribe.
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A case study of the kind of ethical conversations that need to happen in the boardroom of any organisation to carry out due diligence, highlighting the processes and differentiation of salaried executives and unremunerated non-executive leading to work with diversity of thinking, declaring and addressing conflicts of interest, and preventing a U-turn or embarrassing the reputation of the organisation.
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Simplifying work and life is an essential skill, especially as we move through these times of change. This blog describes why and gives examples of businesses I have helped found, that show multiple practical insights about these values-in-action. Traits of ethical leadership include the ability to Simplify and being straightforward.
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As we come through the post-crisis phase after the pandemic, I am working with organisations and different professions who are exhibiting signs of burn out, so in this blog I reflect on ‘Perfection’ and suggest ways of practicing around it.
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This blog reflects on my recent work, supporting ethical leadership structures in Scotland, which goes together with the need to pause, breath and consider sustainability in all our working lives as we move towards COP 26.
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I think this poem shows the type of worldclass leadership that we need. - this brief post, includes a video for why i think Jacinda is offerering us a real chance to have fun and grow up….
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This speaks to me and for me. It is this years Quaker British Yearly Meetings letter, which calls forth my best self. It represents why I am a Quaker in Business and what that is about for me as a Quaker who consults to businesses.
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This is the third case study in a series on organisations who have built their hybrid format capacity with us we are showcasing how organisations can become more accessible, more able to serve their customers. All businesses regardless of sector or size can benefit from how hybrid format and hybrid working patterns enable quality delivery for all.