The core of our coaching process is based on supporting an inward quest โ the discovery and articulation of your core self, and the expansion of your self-awareness. Our belief is that the most impactful and enduring answers are within us, and the coaching process facilitates the insight that helps us find them. As we find greater alignment with who we are, we create the energy and flow to fulfill our personal and professional goals. These posts and blogs reflect our thinking and our approach.
This is from my days working in an agency. A week after our company announced a restructuring, I sent Piyush, one of the strongest designers on my team, a message that read, “Can we talk tomorrow about the onboarding redesign? I expected more from the second half.” I typed it between meetings and sent it …
I am walking into a pitch meeting. The slides looked impeccable. The numbers were absolutely defensible. My team, on stand by with a rehearsed strategy. Under my blazer and the calm face however, my body is preparing for an unknown danger. The heart rate has shifted. Breathing has become shallower. The body, in its ancient …
A simple truth we keep running into: every organisation wants to stretch, grow, and sometimes reshapeโbut none of that is easy if the middle is stuck. Unfortunately thatโs where leadership capacity seems to run thin. Thriving organisations run on a leadership engine, leadership that’s visible across the organisation. Their real strength seems to lie in …
Everyone loves a reliable leader.The one who delivers, holds the line, and steps in before a problem becomes a crisis. The steady one. The go-to. But for many โstar performers,โ reliability slowly becomes a trap.The pressure, the solitude, the constant expectation, all add up. At first, you call it a phase. A busy quarter. A …
At 8:00 AM, the boardroom is calm. By 8:15, the CFO is pushing back on headcount. By 8:27, your inbox pings with a client crisis. And by 9:00, youโre already on your third coffee, wondering how youโre supposed to think strategically when you barely have time to think at all. Sound familiar? For most senior …
Lessons in Leadership (From the ones who taught us how to cross the street) I was recently doom-scrolling through Instagram when I came across a Simon Sinek video Iโd seen before but hadnโt really heard until then. In it, he draws a parallel between parenting and leadership not in the way of coddling or caretaking, …
The financial year reset is upon us, and with it comes the sacred ritual of budget planning. Across boardrooms, spreadsheets glow with freshly projected figures, and leaders make the annual pilgrimage to debate costs, investments, andโsomewhere in the mixโemployee wellbeing. Traditionally, this conversation culminates in a well-intentioned yet predictable line item: the grand annual offsite. …
Love in leadership? I know, it sounds like something youโd hear at a retreat or from a guru whoโs never had to meet a deadline. But hear me out what if I told you that the same thing that makes a band of superheroes unstoppable might also be the key to leading a high-performing team? …
๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฐ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ “๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ?” ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ “๐โ๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ,” ๐๐ญโ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐. How often do we respond to โHow are you?โ with โIโm busyโ as if that somehow validates our worth? Jennifer Garvey Bergerโs conversation on The Conscious Hospitality Podcast with David Arraya made me realise that busyness is often a mask. …
Ed Catmull, the co-founder of Pixar, has been known to say that he considers smart people, working together as more important than good ideas. To some that is quite shocking, coming from a creative powerhouse that has spawned ideas into blockbusters. But, a closer look at Pixarโs culture reveals that collaborating may actually be Pixarโs …
