I was asked this question recently by someone who is looking to move from a role in facilitation within an organization to setting up her own business. And the question flummoxed me. Because it’s really complicated. At least it feels that way. On the one hand there is...
(NB. This blog was inspired by a combination of some recent facilitation and being immersed in the current season of the British Baking Show! If you aren’t into baking, you might still find some morsels of use in this blog!) I love to cook but I have a pet peeve when...
As an executive and leadership coach this feels like a strange title for a blog! I’ve experienced personally how coaching has at different points transformed how I was showing up in the world. There was the time when my coach helped me to understand how to advocate...
I grew up doing a lot of volunteering. My friends and I set up our town's first paper and aluminium recycling program which involved a lot of sorting of rubbish and jumping on cans to squash them flat! And my first year overseas was volunteering for a peacebuilding...
This is an article inspired by the work of a dearly beloved Portland insititution called the Rebuilding Center. They are maybe best known for their 30,000 square foot warehouse where you can find pretty much any piece of second hand building supplies for cheap to...
I like reading. A lot. I’m excited to be currently stuck into a work of fiction involving time travel that I can’t put down (The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard if you are interested). I’m even more delighted by the fact that I feel I can count reading as a...
“Not having a strategy is a strategy in itself…” This was something I used to say to leaders in my previous organization when they told me that things were too uncertain and unpredictable to put a strategy in place. Or that they needed to be responsive to what donors...
The world of work where I spent significant parts of my career is experiencing deep upheaval right now. Thousands of my friends and colleagues have been laid off or furloughed and are having to radically rethink their lives. And thousands more still have their jobs...
Think back to the last training you attended that you enjoyed. Ask yourself what you most enjoyed about it? Then ask yourself if you can name three key takeaways? Then ask yourself, how many things you can identify that you are doing differently because of what you...
This is a time of year when many folks, particularly in the Northern hemisphere are on the move - traveling to either find the snow or escape the cold, visiting family, revisting established traditions or creating new ones. Getting on planes, trains or buses for work,...
