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Leadership conversations
shape leadership thinking

Leadership does not always give you time to make sense of what you are carrying.


Here you will find conversations and reflections for experienced senior leaders navigating pressure, difficult decisions, relationships, organisational change and the work that rarely appears in the job description.

Where would it be useful to begin?


Three conversations for moments when leadership asks more of you than others may see.


Recovering from difficult conversations

The role of hope in coaching conversations to elevate leadership performance

This presentation explores how coaching conversations can cultivate hope—strengthening a leader’s sense of agency, widening the pathways they can see and supporting purposeful action under pressure.

Exploring trust risk and choice

Exploring trust, risk and choice in leadership

with Trudi West

How trust and risk shape the choices leaders make when certainty is unavailable.

How to develop a learning culture

How to develop a learning culture in your organisation

with Jan Daines, Nick Sherriff and Jeni Ling

How leaders create the conditions for challenge, reflection and learning to become part of everyday organisational life.

LISTEN

100 conversations on leadership, coaching and change


Leading the Coaching Change explores the pressures, decisions and relationships that shape leadership. Across 100 episodes, I speak with leaders and experts—and share my own reflections—on leading people, navigating change and handling the conversations that matter.

Browse the full series below.


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Browse leadership insights by topic


Across some 30 conversations and presentations, I have explored what it takes to lead when the work is complex and the answers are rarely straightforward. Browse a selected collection below, organised around the questions senior leaders most often carry.

When something here stays with you


A conversation may surface a decision you need to make, a relationship requiring attention, a change you are leading or a weight you have been carrying quietly.

You do not have to rush towards an answer.

Coaching gives you the space to examine what is happening, understand what it is asking of you and decide what comes next.



Space to think. Strengths to navigate. Courage to act.