Being a Board Director during Covid-19 Directors spend a significant amount of their time in boardrooms and need the requisite intellectual curiosity, self-awareness, and competencies to achieve their organisation’s strategy.  Today’s boardroom is alr...

Evoke Awareness – A Poem The visceral “fight or flight” feelings evoked by seeing street protests, remind me also of the feelings I experienced, when I first started coaching. That sense, that I am being judged because I am seen as an “Other”, a woma...

Conversing curiously about gender diversity  “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.” The quote by Eric Roth from the screenplay, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button triggers a myriad of questions about opportunities in my min...

The art of shifting corporate behaviour starts with the decision-maker Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, a revolutionary and one of the most iconic figures of our time, wrote in a letter to Winnie Mandela in 1981, “Learn to know yourself… to search realisti...

A better sense of self drives better leadership Self-interest impacts a leader’s ability to engage in healthy and productive strategic debates as they hold silo perspectives and opinions when they do not listen with the intention to hear and to under...