Neither the leader nor the team alone can be blamed for dysfunction and poor performance. Everyone shares responsibility, and everyone must take full accountability.
Why Mindful Leadership Matters More Than Ever
The ultimate objective of mindful leadership is not some goal “out there”; rather, it is to become the best kind of person who creates and supports the best kind of organisations.
How to Strengthen Your Leadership by Training Attention
Your attention is constantly pulled to targets, emails and next steps. Yet when you lead on autopilot, people feel it. Presence shapes trust, judgment and the quality of every decision you make.
Why Leadership Training Fails Without Self-Awareness
You invest in leadership development, yet familiar patterns keep resurfacing. Real change begins when you question the identity you’re protecting—and build the self-awareness that allows you to grow beyond it.
How to Create an Innovative Organisational Culture
You’re expected to drive innovation while protecting results. When every initiative must succeed, learning shuts down. Reframing work as experiments changes how your team handles risk, failure and truth.
3 reasons why self-awareness is essential for leadership training
I define self-awareness as an awareness of our thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and environment in the present moment. It is paying attention in the present moment purposefully and non-judgementally. It is experiencing and accepting reality as it really is—not how...
Absentmindedness prevents mindful leadership
Mindful leadership requires presence—being in tune with our feelings, thoughts, and experiences in the present moment. The value of staying present can be brought home by understanding what we habitually do in its place: engage in absentmindedness. Much of the time...
Mindful leadership development is discovering who we already are
When I started my personal transformation journey at the age of 22, I had no idea what I was signing up for. I started taking classes in practical philosophy, depth psychology and mindfulness meditation. I thought this would somehow make me special. What I did not...
Transformational leadership requires courage to follow our values
Living according to our values is a process of maturation that takes courage. Without that courage, transformational leadership is next to impossible. At times we may live values loosely but for the wrong reasons. We may comply with organisational values out of fear...
How values influence organisational change
What are your organisational values? Can you list them immediately, or do you have to pause and think for a minute? If you’re like most of the leaders I’ve worked with, it takes a while to remember your stated values. And if you can’t remember them off the top of...
