The beginning of the new year is always a refreshing time to revisit and realign ourselves to our intent for the coming year. I hear a lot of people talk about their intentions for 2015, rather than their intent. The…
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Growing a Bigger Mind
The world is more volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous and urgent than ever before and research shows that less than 5% of leaders globally are functioning from their highest cognitive potential. Robert Kegan describes it as being “in over our heads!”…
Posted in On Running Your Brain
Duality and Harmony
This weekend saw the 100 year remembrance of the ANZAC’s landing at Gallipoli. While some of our children were in Canberra, Helmut, Emma and I went to the ANZAC service in Jindabyne. As always I experience deep confusion, sadness and…
Posted in On Health and Wellbeing
Immunity to Change
In my work I sometimes observe that, even with the greatest of intentions, people are not able to do the change they truly desire. This can be frustrating for the individual, and for leaders who clearly have smart, skilled, deeply…
Posted in On Change and Innovation
The Power and Beauty of NLP
Two interesting things happened over the past week to remind me of the power and beauty of NLP. I was at the Telstra Women in Business Awards on Tuesday night and Layne Beachley was the keynote speaker. She was wonderful.…
Posted in On Running Your Brain
Cultivating Employee Engagement
We are all aware that organisations with great cultures create great workplaces. Research by the Barrett Values Centre (2013) concluded that “values driven organisations are the most successful organisations on the planet”. They generate higher earnings, are more profitable, more…
Posted in On Leadership
Top 10 Tips for an Extraordinary Day
Each day we’re faced with a barrage of potential stressors that can compromise our wellbeing, our productivity and our joy. When we feel stressed our body reacts by increasing our adrenaline and cortisol hormones which directly effects our energy management,…
Posted in On Health and Wellbeing
Unconscious Bias
I was a nurse originally, and now I work in leadership development. The other day I was introducing a program for women leaders and I made the comment that I look forward to the day when we move from defining…
Posted in On Leadership
Meditation
As most of you know I am a long time devotee of meditation and reap the benefits of it daily. Last week a friend of mine, Antoinette Braks, spent last weekend with Deepak Chopra at his workshop in Sydney. I…
Posted in On Health and Wellbeing
Setting Your Intentions
Last month I wrote about reflecting on your successes for 2013 and priming your brain for success in 2014. Some of the ideas that I mentioned were: Set goals. Develop an action plan and take inspired action each day. Get…
Posted in On Health and Wellbeing