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From Protection to Performance: Why EQ Beats Traditional Leadership Training agility emotional intelligence eq development executive coaching future of work leadership coaching leadership development leadership effectiveness leadership strategy resilience self-awareness team performance workplace performance Sep 16, 2025

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs report shows a clear trend: employers expect the biggest growth in demand for cognitive and self-management skills like resilience, agility, and self-awarenes...

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What “Sorry” Reveals About Your Team’s Culture accountability in teams emotional intelligence executive coaching high performing teams leadership coaching leadership development leadership habits team communication team performance workplace culture Sep 09, 2025

In a recent post, I shared that you can learn more about a team’s performance by observing it than you ever could through surveys or reports.

Here’s a simple example: listen to how a team uses the wo...

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Lead with the Brain in Mind: The Leadership Advantage Most Ignore behaviour change brain limitations conscious leadership emotional intelligence executive coaching leadership coaching leadership habits neuroscience and leadership team performance workplace performance Sep 07, 2025

 

Most people accept that the human brain has natural limits. But here’s the surprising truth: very few can name what those limits are—or explain how they quietly shape our day-to-day behaviour.

For...

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The Forgotten Innovation Lesson Every Leader Needs to Hear emotional intelligence empowering teams executive coaching innovation leadership leadership coaching leadership habits problem solving team performance workplace culture Sep 05, 2025

Long before Google existed, there was The Daily Telegraph’s Information Bureau.

Set up in 1948, it was staffed by a team of highly educated women who could track down anything—facts, statistics, hist...

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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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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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Would Your Team Benefit from Stronger EQ? effective communication emotional intelligence empathy in leadership eq training high-performing teams leadership skills team performance Jan 13, 2025

In today’s fast-paced and interconnected workplace, teams thrive when individuals bring emotional intelligence (EQ) to the table. The ability to understand and manage emotions—both your own and others...

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Why Emotional Intelligence is the Key to Psychological Safety in Teams effective communication emotional intelligence empathy in leadership eq training high-performing teams leadership skills psychological safety team dynamics team performance Jan 07, 2025

 When two or more people come together, their brains unconsciously scan the environment for potential threats. This deeply ingrained survival mechanism, rooted in our evolutionary history, doesn’t jus...

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