Challenging conversations are essential for innovation

The biggest thing that we fail at within our companies and teams, and frankly wider relationships, is our ability to have challenging conversations.  Yep. Really. And especially if

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The most important things to remember when hiring

I spent most of my career focused on recruitment. Firstly as a consultant working with clients to help them find the right human for the roles they had,

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Four pledges that I wish I had learnt to make sooner in leadership 

Leadership isn’t easy. It can often be a bumpy transition that sometimes takes you from delivery to enablement, from friend to almost foe, and from autonomous being to

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Igniting the Power of Collective Resilience

Resilience, done well, is about understanding and knowing ourselves well enough to recognise what we are feeling, knowing our own limits, and building a toolbox of the resources

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Creating Balance as a People Pleaser in a Startup

We hear a lot about purpose these days and how much it matters. It is exciting to jump on a mission which we feel aligned to. That’s what

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How to Run an Employee Journey Mapping Project to Improve the Employee Experience

Remember in the olden days when companies would simply build products on a hunch without getting any feedback from the end-user… ? It led to AI that couldn’t

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Sustainability Starts at Home

It’s a great thing to see people are becoming more and more focused on sustainability for our planet. Having worked at bp Launchpad, a business steeped in energy

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Courageous Leadership for Beginners

As someone who has always found it easy to connect to people, earlier in my career I oversimplified the effort needed to create a great experience for others.

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