Category Archives: leadership

I spent this week working with 8 leaders and changemakers in Warwickshire. 9 chairs, 1 flip chart, 0 slides. Purely experiential. Because in a complex world there are no clear-cut solutions. We practiced slowing down, noticing, using feelings as data, giving feedback, coaching each other, and being present in a client-centred way. When you enableContinue reading “Giving solutions space to emerge by themselves”

Do you ever look at people in other professions and feel inspired by how they work? I often do. Especially occupations that are very different from my own – more physical, more artistic, or just completely unrelated. Seeing how different people approach different roles makes me wonder what universal lessons we can learn that areContinue reading “Learning from different occupations”

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacting leaders around the geospatial industry to find out what they believe it takes to be successful. This is to help inspire postgraduate students on a business and leadership training programme I’m delivering at two UK universities. So I asked ca. 50 leaders in my network one simpleContinue reading “I asked 50 geospatial leaders about success. Here’s their advice”

Last year, one of the most moving moments on British TV happened on celebrity talent show, Strictly Come Dancing. It’s not a show I normally watch but, like millions of others, I couldn’t help but feel moved. Rose Ayling-Ellis was the first deaf contestant on the show. How does a deaf person dance to musicContinue reading “The magic of turning off the music”

Two weeks ago, in Hawaii, Kelly Slater won the Billabong Pro Pipeline contest, one of the world’s top surfing events. He’s 50 years old. As a surfer myself, I can truly appreciate the magnitude of this achievement. It’s as if a pensioner had just won Wimbledon or climbed Everest. For context, Slater’s co-finalist was theContinue reading “Age vs. Attitude”

Superheroes have had their day. In today’s world of exponential complexity, neither Batman nor Superwoman would cut it. To be able to run at lightning speed is nice, but will only get you to the wrong place faster. Sometimes, you just have to stop. Literally. Just do nothing. This is hard. Leaders have a biasContinue reading “As a leader, your greatest power is to do nothing”