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Lessons in Leadership (From the ones who taught us how to cross the street)

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 Iโ€™d seen before but hadnโ€™t really heard until then. In it, he draws a parallel between parenting and leadership not in the way of coddling or caretaking, …

Dear CXO, Your New Financial Year Budget Needs to Go Beyond the Annual Office Offsite

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, andโ€”somewhere in the mixโ€”employee wellbeing. Traditionally, this conversation culminates in a well-intentioned yet predictable line item: the grand annual offsite. …

The Happiness Factor โ€“ Why Joyful Leaders Build Stronger Teams

โ€œ…Because I’m happy Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I’m happy Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth..โ€ Iโ€™ve been humming Happy by Pharrell Williams for the last couple of days. You know how a song gets stuck in your head, and suddenly, everything seems to …

How I became an entrepreneur

Dancing on the Shaky Bridge: Leading in a World That Wonโ€™t Stand Still

A few years ago, I had a moment of realization that changed the way I think about leadership. I was working on a particularly thorny challenge one of those problems that doesnโ€™t have a clear solution, just layers upon layers of shifting variables. At some point, I found myself longing for a simpler time, a …

From Captain America to the Boardroom: How Love Fuels Great Leadership

Love in leadership? I know, it sounds like something youโ€™d hear at a retreat or from a guru whoโ€™s 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? …

Taming the Complexity Trap

The Leadership Catch-22: Why Complexity Trips Us Up (and How to Beat It) A funny thing happens when we face complexity: instead of leaning into it with curiosity, our nervous system often sounds the alarm. Fight, flee, freeze anything but engage. Itโ€™s as if our brain mistakes a messy spreadsheet or an uncertain future for …

Beyond Busyness: Leading with Awareness in a Complex World

๐ˆ๐Ÿ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐€๐ง๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐จ “๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐€๐ซ๐ž ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ?” ๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐€๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ “๐ˆโ€™๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฒ,” ๐ˆ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐“๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž. How often do we respond to โ€œHow are you?โ€ with โ€œIโ€™m busyโ€ as if that somehow validates our worth? Jennifer Garvey Bergerโ€™s conversation on The Conscious Hospitality Podcast with David Arraya made me realise that busyness is often a mask. …

Breaking Mental Barriers: Unlocking Authentic Leadership from Within

More often than not, the greatest obstacles we face arenโ€™t external challenges theyโ€™re the mental traps weโ€™ve unconsciously created within ourselves. These subtle yet powerful barriers can cloud our judgment, limit our growth, and obscure our path to authentic leadership. And lead us to look for external solutions when the challenges (and hence solutions) potentially …

Bringing Love Back to Work

I remember a moment from my early years as a professional that changed the way I think about work. I walked into a meeting completely drained, deadlines looming, stress mounting, and everything around me felt heavy. Before we started, a colleague paused, looked at me, and said, โ€œAre you okay?โ€ It wasnโ€™t the usual โ€œHow …

The Power of Communication in Uncertain Times

Imagine being in the captain’s seat of a ship navigating stormy, uncharted waters. The map? Outdated. The weather forecast? Unreliable. The crew? Looking to you for direction. As a leader, it can feel paralyzing when you don’t have all the answers. But here’s the twist: leadership in complexity isnโ€™t about certaintyโ€™ s about communication. Jennifer …