Creating Enlightened Organisations
What do you think when you look at someone with immense personal power? Say Oprah Winfrey, or Nelson Mandela, or Jane Goodall, or Helen Clark, or Ghandi, or George Clooney, or Bill Gates? Someone who eschews confidence and wields influence? Someone who is humble and dedicated to making a difference? I’m sure you have a … Read more Power, Confidence and the Danger of Comparison
“The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.” ~ Brene Brown Who is Gary Vee? I first heard the name “Gary Vaynerchuk” in a … Read more Gary Vaynerchuk and the Older Woman
“There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice” ~ Simon Sinek Returning to work after the birth of our son is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life. But not for any of the reasons that I expected. I expected to … Read more Work/Life Balance: A Perfectionist’s Folly
“Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.” ~ Steven Pinker My first senior management role came with a media delegation. This meant that, once I’d had media training, I was authorised to … Read more “You Got This” – Confidence in Spite of the Odds
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good” ~ Charlotte Whitton This particular quote gets bandied around a bit, and with recent developments at Google it seems that this old ‘chestnut’ has a bit more life in it yet! So let’s start at the beginning. There are … Read more “I’m Not Good Enough”… the Gender Confidence Gap
I want to share an important insight with you: only you are thinking about you. Devastating, I know, but it’s true. Not long after the birth of my son, working through the tricky and messy and unplannable return-to-work phase, I had what I can only describe as a crisis of confidence; something those who know … Read more You’re the Only One Thinking About You (Well Almost)