Core to building a leadership career is learning how to be visible. Yet raising one’s own profile can feel profoundly uncomfortable. How do you build your personal brand without feeling like a colony of ants is crawling through your brain? The truth is, unless you...
Many people struggle to develop their influence and voice at work. Minoritised people in particular. Even when people do speak up to offer ideas or challenge accepted ways of thinking they can get slapped down, sometimes unintentionally, sometimes intentionally. For...
If you have a minoritised characteristic it is likely you have to deal with others’ biases towards you at work. Others’ biases towards you can be unconscious. However, sometimes those biases can be covert (i.e. consciously held biases that people don’t...
The world of work has changed more in the past few years than in the previous few decades. For leaders, this has made an already complex role even harder. I talk to leaders almost daily. Almost all of them share the same challenges: The pace of change continues to...
Have you ever played meeting bingo? That game where you list jargon that tends to come up in meetings, and every time someone utters a term that has become meaningless through overuse, you tick it on the list. First one to tick all the terms wins. (If you play it...
