I didn’t write anything last month which is the first time that's happened since I began doing this. If this was a game of Cricket I would have made a half century and then got out. But that's a little negative, I was extremely busy on a number of fronts and had to...
It’s fair to say that most leaders I meet genuinely care about their impact. That’s most, not all. They typically want their teams to feel trusted and they want the high standards without burning people out. They want everything that Maslow described and to be the...
A client said something to me last week that made me both smile and think (probably more like think-smile-think actually). They’d told their HR team that we were coming in to do some work with them, and the response was: “That’s great… those people are like unicorns.”...
As we move towards the end of 2025, a year that has had its fair share of challenge for me personally, I decided to take a look back across the conversations, coaching sessions, team development, and moments that have stuck with me. One of the privileges of the work...
Having spent a fair bit of time recently, working with a bunch of leadership teams and then also running sessions all about how to get more alignment. I had a bit of a reflection, in a sense that it's all good and well but what if it doesn’t translate into tangible...
This month I’m sharing something a bit more in-depth than usual.We’ve been having a lot of conversations recently about coaching cultures, what it really takes to build one, and why so many stall before they properly start. One theme keeps coming up which is the gap...
Last week, I had the opportunity to lead a conversation with a group of HR and business leaders on one of the most overlooked, but decisive factors in whether a people strategy succeeds… Alignment. This is always interesting for me, coming at what is positioned as...
Having leaned into more AI recently and beginning to understand how it is going to shape my own practice, I thought it may be worth some time to consider what all of this might mean for those of us in leadership or management positions. It's definitely not a 'look...
You don’t need convincing, and we know we are preaching to the choir when we say that L&D is essential to business success. But while most organisations are happy to fund the odd workshop or ‘fix-the-problem’ training session, making the case for a sustained...
During the recent days of extreme heat, I happened to have a great day out at the Northumbrian Water Innovation festival, taking part in a sprint there. This is what formed the basis of what I'm dropping this month.This isn’t because this is an new avenue of thinking...