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The 10-Minute Test That Reveals if Your Team Will Succeed #corporateteamperformance #emotionalintelligencetraining #highperformingteams #leadershipcoaching #teamcommunication Aug 11, 2025

I can usually tell within ten minutes whether a team will hit their goals—without seeing a single KPI or performance report. All I have to do is listen to them talk.

Years of working with leadership ...

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Why Mindset, Not Strategy, Drives Real Change in Leadership #changeleadership #coachforleaders #emotionalintelligence #eqinbusiness #executivecoaching #highimpactleadership #leadingthroughchange #mindsetshift #selfawareness leadershipdevelopment Aug 08, 2025

Why Some Leaders Create Change — And Others Stall

Here’s a truth most don’t want to admit:
Change isn’t hard because it’s complex.
It’s hard because it’s personal.

Recently, I was working with two sen...

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The One Thing That Quietly Kills Team Performance blind spots conscious leadership effective communication emotional intelligence eq executive coaching high-performing teams leadership leadership development leadership growth leadership habits mindset shift reactive habits self-awareness team performance Aug 04, 2025

It's not laziness.
It’s not bad intentions.
And it’s definitely not a lack of effort.

The real issue?
Blind spots.

I was reminded of this again last week while working with a brilliant leadership team ...

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The Elephant in the Room: Unlocking the Brain’s Hidden Power behaviour change brain-based coaching emotional intelligence eq training executive coaching high-performing teams leadership coaching leadership development leadership impact mindset shift practical eq tools resilience retrain your brain self-awareness team performance Jul 22, 2025

 After more than 20,000 hours of coaching leaders and teams, one thing is clear: what holds most people back isn’t skill or will. It’s how the brain is wired to protect us.

That’s exactly why I creat...

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Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat — It Might Just Scale Your Business Jul 15, 2025

This week, I had a first session with a founder running a $400M+ ARR med-tech company.

They’ve built something remarkable — but now they’re shifting gears. Moving from being the hands-on founder to s...

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Coaching Isn’t Magic. It’s Brain Science. behaviour change brain coaching emotional intelligence leadership development limiting beliefs mindset personal growth self-awareness transformation Jul 08, 2025

 

Coaching can change lives.

Sometimes that change is quiet. Sometimes it’s big. Either way, it’s not magic. It’s not fluff. And it’s definitely not some kind of mysterious voodoo. It’s based on som...

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What Story Are You Telling Yourself—And Is It Helping You? #coachingforleaders #emotionalintelligence #innernarrative #leadershipdevelopment #mindsetmatters #personalgrowth #resilientleadership #selfawareness #thoughtleadership Jun 20, 2025

 

The stories we tell ourselves shape everything—from how we lead, to how we relate to others, to what we believe we’re capable of.

But have you ever paused to ask what those stories are actually ma...

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What an Oil Rig Taught Us About Emotional Intelligence behaviour change culture change emotional intelligence eq in leadership executive coaching high-performing teams leadership organisational development psychological safety safety and performance shell ursa case study team performance trust at work vulnerability in leadership workplace culture Jun 06, 2025

And Why It Should Matter to Every Leader

If you could improve a core performance metric by 84%, would you?

That’s exactly what happened on one of Shell’s most ambitious oil platforms. And the way th...

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Why You're So Stressed — Even When Nothing’s Wrong burnout emotional intelligence executive coaching leadership coaching resilience self awareness stress management Jun 05, 2025

 

Ever feel exhausted or anxious, but you can’t explain why? You’re not alone. The truth is, we weren’t built for the pace or pressure of modern life.

Your Brain Is Doing Its Job — Just Not for This...

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Lacking in Self-Confidence? You Might Just Be Looking in the Wrong Place #confidencebuilding #emotionalintelligence #executivecoaching #highperformance #leadershipdevelopment #mindsetshift #personalgrowth #resilientleadership #selfawareness May 12, 2025

 

Confidence doesn’t always arrive with a roar. Sometimes, it builds quietly — and in ways you least expect.

I recently worked with a woman in her mid-thirties who described herself, without hesitat...

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When Emotion Distorts Leadership: What Most Leaders Miss clarityinleadership emotional intelligence leadership skills leadershipdevelopment selfawareness May 09, 2025

 

Leadership isn’t hard because you lack skill.
It’s hard because your thinking may not be as clear as you believe.

Consider the image of dye dispersing through clear water.
The change is immediate an...

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