As this turbulent year comes to an end, we’ve seen the best and the worst side of life, people and business. How about you give yourself the gift of reflection. Click here and let me know your answer to these 2 questions: 1. Use ONE WORD to describe the WORST of...
This has been a crazy, chaotic and turbulent year, full of twists and turns, ups and downs. It’s been a tough year to show leadership, maintain and grow your business and, at the same time, care for your people. Even if you’ve had a good year in...
What makes you happy? Is it sharing a good cappuccino with a friend? Or perhaps curling up to read a good book with a cuppa? The good news is that you can purchase my new book Weekly Habits for Extraordinary Leaders, on Amazon today! So if you’re in the market...
I love this quote from Sheryl Sandberg “In future, there will be no more female leaders. There will be just leaders.” For me this says it all. When we get to a time when we can acknowledge that feminine and masculine energy has nothing to do with gender and...
I contributed to the panel of Forbes on a very important topic for leadership: How to combat loneliness as an entrepreneur and CEO? Find a trusted confidante that you can be truly yourself with. This is one of my favourite topics in leadership. To be an extraordinary...
I think we’re all feeling the strangeness of our times and I can see that this generates different responses for different people. I’ve been reflecting on the last 4 months since lockdowns, restrictions, masks and social distancing became our way of life and I...
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks furiously unsubscribing from every newsletter that has landed in my inbox. My peak email count was an average of 160 emails a day. My inbox was out of control. Going on a business trip for 3-4 days meant that I came back to...
I decided to set myself a challenge: write 7 blog articles in 7 days. One per day. The reason for this challenge was to get myself going with writing again. Writing is something I love doing, I have ideas for blog pieces running around in my head every day and yet,...
–> Being an executive coach and an actuary puts me in a unique position. As an actuary, I’m assumed to have a workable level of financial knowledge and as a coach, I’m assumed to be able to guide people to certain levels of understanding, knowledge and...