Month: August 2021

How I learned to lead with optimism in a time of pre-traumatic stress

The world is suffering from pre-traumatic stress. Not only are we dealing with the threat of the pandemic, but also climate change, social injustice, economic downturn. While the horizon looks bleak, it’s never been more important to lead from a place of optimism. This is how we bounce back. This is the route to resilience. …

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Resilience flourishes in space between stimulus and response

One of my favourite quotes is from Viktor Frankl, Austrain Neurologist and Holocaust Survivor: “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” This week I launched my new business ‘The Resilient’ here to enable you to find that …

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Embracing selflessness in transformational leadership

Leading organisational transformation means embracing selflessness. It is about focussing on something bigger, outside the self. And this is by no means easy. It requires character as much as commercial skill. It is a calling that requires working behind the scenes more than working in the spotlight. And only receiving the applause with successful completion. …

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Do we Collaborate or Compete?

Each week we have started a clubhouse room on how to Level up — The 80% Effect, encouraging entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to level up to 80% excellence in order to achieve their desried results. This week’s theme was Collaborate or Compete? This discussion made it apparent that mindset has shifted from ahypercompetitive ‘win-at-all-costs, crush-your-enemies’ thinking to …

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The Misleading Comfort Zone

(image source: https://www.dutchinvertuals.nl/exhibitions/mutant-matter/) Yesterday I gave a workshop on Resilience in VUCA times to the advertising industry in the UK which went really well but I could see the resistance that come up as soon as the conversation shifted to the notion that actually so often it is not just the external interference that undermines our resilience …

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IPA Self Love and Resilience Workshop for Institute of Practitioners in Advertising

It was a pleasure to talk about resilient leadership in a volatile world. I spoke about my passion of how I truly believe that transformative leadership comes from being not just doing. I suggested a ‘be list’ not just a to do list and spoke about how our performance = potential minus interference. The biggest …

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