Looking for Joy… Sometimes my first client conversations go deep into the problem, the challenge or the desire my client is bringing to our work together. And sometimes they go high and wide, discussions about the meaning of life that don’t seem to connect to the immediate challenge, and yet explain everything. My…

And why is it so hard to spot the join? Better Conversations I completed with a client this week and, inevitably I guess, we looked back a bit at what’s happened over the time we’ve been together. …

And what to do about it… What If… What is innately and universally true about resilience? And what if we strengthened that, worked with the natural systems — something akin to the idea in Taleb’s ‘antifragile’ as a friend pointed out when we had this discussion on LinkedIn. If it’s true that…

…and making the invisible visible. Ask, Don’t Assume… It’s never my role to ‘tell’ clients what to do, or even to offer advice, although sometimes suggestions can loosen the lid of ideation; but to open up their ideas of who they are and what they might not be seeing about themselves and about…

What will I do with this one wild and precious life? My Time? When I wrote about deep time, I had in mind planetary time, or longer, a sense of timelessness, where ‘time’ is a construct of human consciousness and there is something that exists outside of human understanding. The idea of…

Or at least becoming more sensitive to seeing them! Seeing the Personal Narrative I spend some of my time with clients, usually at the beginning of our time together, helping them see the difference between what is out in the world, and the thought-created ‘illusion’ they experience as real. We’re aiming to develop the…

And what’s it actually made of? How’s It Going? I posted this cute picture (well cute to me) on social media this week, snapped on a bike trip, with a witty comment about sharing the lady’s pain over her lockdown locks. It got a few laughs, who doesn’t like a nice animal picture? …

An unusual and unexpectedly fascinating place to find leadership lessons… Love and War? It may seem bizarre for someone who believes that the foundation of all leadership is unconditional love to be drawing lessons from military strategy, and counterinsurgency strategy at that-the darkest of the military arts. …

How long is your timescale? And what difference does that make? How Long is Your Timeline? Let me ask you this, How long is your timeline? The one in your head when you think about all the things you make decisions about? Shopping, buying / renting a house, choosing a career, a partner, a holiday? …