power and presence
This blog series is for leaders in development – for coaches, for facilitators, for those us us who daily are needing to find the leader within - which, in today’s world, really means all of us...
Leadership and the four uses of power
This blog series is for leaders in development – for coaches, for facilitators, for those us us who daily are needing to find the leader within - which, in today’s world, really means all of us...
Practising the powers you don’t usually use
This blog series is for leaders in development – for coaches, for facilitators, for those us us who daily are needing to find the leader within - which, in today’s world, really means all of us...
Kinds of power: knowing yours, noticing others
This blog series is for leaders in development – for coaches, for facilitators, for those us us who daily are needing to find the leader within - which, in today’s world, really means all of us...
Control and Power: Critical Questions
This blog series is for leaders in development – for coaches, for facilitators, for those us us who daily are needing to find the leader within - which, in today’s world, really means all of us...
Sticky Teams and Quiet Stuckness: What Gets Tricky and How to Get Unstuck
We’ve all been there. You’re part of a team or group that starts with energy and good intentions, but over time, something shifts…
Everyday Team Leadership: Influence Without Authority
In my career in business, I’ve often witnessed people who weren’t in a formal leadership role stepping up in powerful, positive ways - what I’d call leaderful actions...
Is the Future More than Just High-Performance?
The idea of the “high-performing team” often centres on efficiency, productivity, and results. While important, these measures don’t always serve the complexity, uncertainty, and deep interconnectedness of today’s and tomorrow’s world…
A Powerful Systems Framework for Team Working
We bring a number of ways of approaching the process and patterns of team development, but one that’s easy to research is Peter Hawkins’ model of systemic team coaching...
Seeing the Team as a System
Seeing a team this way shifts everything. Instead of simply asking, “What’s the problem” or “Who’s the problem?” we ask, “What’s the process?” Instead of fixing the immediate problem, or individuals, we explore patterns and dynamics...
Team Coaching: Grasping the Nettle
For a team, grasping the nettle means facing the tough stuff together - naming the unspoken tensions, tackling the tricky conversations, and stepping into challenge with honesty and care…
The Agony and Ecstasy of Teams: Living with the Continuum
In a world obsessed with collaboration, the cult of the team can sometimes go too far. We’ve all heard the slogans: “Teamwork makes the dream work”, “There’s no ‘I’ in team”, “Together everyone achieves more.” But what if our over-reliance on teams is holding us back?
Cultivating Thriving Teams: Lessons from Permaculture
Teams, like ecosystems, are complex and interconnected. In permaculture—a design philosophy based on natural systems—there’s a fundamental principle..
Team Group or Network? Why Choosing Poorly Wastes Time and Resources
In working with many extraordinary groups and teams there is nothing quite like the magic that can emerge when people working together are in their flow…
Teaming into the Future
How many more times do we need to read that we live in a fast-changing, complex world, where few challenges can be tackled alone before we take a step towards conscious change?
Silence is golden - isn’t it?
In coaching sessions , clients often say to me “ I really wish I’d spoken up in that meeting” ( more than I hear them say ‘I wish I hadn’t spoken up!’ ). To say something or remain silent, is often a decision ‘in the moment’- leading to long musings after the event on 'when do I feel I can speak up’, and ‘when does it just not feel safe?’...
Facing my Demons
Over time in 1-1 work some common themes emerge: issues which provide challenge for many at all stages of their careers, irrespective of age or experience. One of these themes is facing into challenges or ‘demons’ which others present or our own internal self-limiting beliefs i.e. different types of ‘demon’. These demons can disable us from operating effectively and with confidence...
Finding Your Voice: How to Speak with Confidence and Clarity
Have you ever opened your mouth to speak in a meeting, during a presentation, or while delivering a speech, only to be met with a squeak, rasp, whisper, or worse, silence? You might have found yourself asking, “Where has my voice gone?”
The Powerful Gift of Quiet Candour
All of us live, like it or not, amid swirling currents of ambiguity. As we strive to understand and act as our truer selves. As we operate and try to add value in our work and organisations...
Why is your voice important?
I’ve been reflecting on life and work lately – I’ve had more time to think than I had before, and I am enjoying (mostly) trying to make sense of my relationship with work and a career in health and care and leadership...

