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I didn’t attend my PhD graduation. I didn’t feel it was that big a deal. Now I know that PhDs can exacerbate imposter syndrome and take a...

You don’t need permission to do what you’re here to do. YOU are responsible for your choices and their consequences. That’s your...

Power is neither good nor bad. But most people have a contentious relationship with it. This is one insight that people surfaced at the...

I’ve had a couple of conversations recently with people who are so burned out that they can’t make decisions anymore. They don’t know...

One of the reasons I hear people say makes them afraid of change is: “I want to keep my lifestyle”. But research in positive psychology...

Now, what do a politician, activist and transformational coach have in common?... …Not their height. Photo: Serendipitous encounter with...

We give up just before we reach the goal. Whether it’s a job, relationship, dream business or simply having more space and work-life...

There are dead ends in life. And then there are apparent dead ends. These are in fact twists in the path, roadblocks that need diligent...

I had a coaching conversation with a top performing fraud investigator who’s worked for some of the biggest global corporations in the...

I had a coaching conversation with a top performing fraud investigator who’s worked for some of the biggest global corporations in the...

UK weather is never guaranteed. More often cloudy than not. It’s famously moody… Since the start of the war, I’ve noticed my mood...

This new season marks Year 6 since my big career leap into the unknown and then into coaching, as well as six years of Wise Wednesdays...

It was my eleventh interview. It was 2003 and I’d tried and failed to get my dream job ten times. My peers were sailing through their...

This question has come up a few times for myself and my clients. It can come up for a number of reasons including: 1) You’ve experienced...

Like a group of teenage kids going to school hoping not to be blown up is how I remember it. This was Algeria in 1993. The Civil War was...

One of the highlights of last week was attending a 2022 Business Book Awards event and receiving the personal development book of the...

What do you do when you have to do something you don’t want to do? Millions of people are caught in conflict zones around the world right...

It’s easy to see power and love as antithetical to each other. You might have an instinctive reaction to one or the other word. [Read on...

When you’re claiming your freedom to the career and life that you truly want (and stepping into a level of leadership and impact that is...

Boundaries, boundaries. We tend to think of them as a self-protective thing. Yet, there is nothing more conducive to healthy...