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A change in pandemic response alert levels gave me the chance to deliver some real-time learning about change communication last week. On...

Thanks to neuroscientist, Hilary Scarlett, for her SPACES approach to understanding how to promote positivity. And positivity makes us...

Processes, rules, regulations - they don't exactly leap off the page as topics to inspire emotion. But you're unlikely to get people to...

Frankly yes - particularly when it comes to embracing diversity, equity and inclusion (DE and I). That's why the hot-off-the press report...

OK, a bit of a click-bait title, because... obviously. In longer form: let's go on a nostalgic trip to the classrooms of my childhood....

I had an unexpected day in the office - alone - yesterday. So I decided to tune into a webinar. And I'm glad I did. As an extreme...

I live in New Zealand, so I have to slip rugby in here somewhere. Sir Steve Hansen will do. He led the All Blacks to win 93 of the 107...

Sometimes things jump off the page (or the screen) at me. That happened this week with an article in The New York Times by Adam Grant....

Last Saturday night I sat doing my knitting with half an eye on the Blues/Chiefs game on the TV - an insight into my thrilling social...

Diversity and inclusion is an obligatory topic in leadership courses now. Sometimes it's the primary focus of a workshop. Sometimes it's...

I entered 'psychological safety' into the search field on You Tube last week. Not a cry for help, just part of my ongoing inquiry into...

I remember this was a phrase repeated several times at the 2005, Looking Back, Moving Forward women's conference in Wellington, 2005. Why...

Number one - Are we losing women in the leadership pipeline in Aotearoa, as a result of COVID? Evidence from the US says that's what's...

I've come to terms with a side of my personality - a lack of optimism - and am trying to counter it. That's maybe why I focus on people...

This Saturday night there was nothing worth watching on TV, so my husband and I watched a programme he'd recorded a while before. And I'm...