October 2025

Reciprocity is foundational in building trust in the workplace. When leaders and teams engage in mutual giving and receiving of respect, time, information, support and feedback, an atmosphere where people feel valued and heard is created.   Psychological safety doesn’t only happen through policy and although it may be documented in the process of hierarchy of control measures within a risk assessment, real, genuine workplace psychological safety, is cultivated through re

Knowledge informs a person, a team, a business an organisation, but attunement transforms .   Knowing about people, your people, their roles, skills, challenges and preferences, is not the same as understanding them. Attunement bridges the gap. Attunement is the capacity to sense , interpret and respond to the emotional and relational cues (the data) that exists beneath the words and actions. When leaders lead with attunement, they move beyond assumption to connection , c

Conscious leadership extends beyond coordinating tasks, it’s about cultivating growth and ensuring professional development and conversations about professional development occur regularly, are documented for clarity and goal setting and reflect the person’s voice as well as the business strategy. When leaders focus only on doing , teams may perform efficiently but plateau in development and even disengage, in what can become autopilot engagement missing opportunities for gr

Transformational leadership doesn’t begin with strategy or even culture, it begins with self-awareness.  Leaders who connect with their inner wisdom cultivate clarity, authenticity and purpose that naturally inspires others. Inner wisdom grows from emotionally intelligent practices, doing the work of reflection , gaining the insight of lived experience, and having the courage to take the time to pause before reacting. When leaders know themselves deeply, they lead with emp

We come to work as whole people , skills, thoughts, beliefs, perspectives, behaviours and emotions.   In the workplace, emotions have often been dismissed as distractions, deviations from the tasks or an insinuation is placed that emotions are a fault of the individual in their professionalism however, in truth they are highly valuable sources of data . Emotions reveal what people care about, where pressure points exist, and how change is impacting the individual and the tea