Listening to world women speakers at the Women Economic Forum last year. Replace the word 'leadership' with 'influence' and you get to the real definition. So let's start talking about 'women in influencing roles' rather than leadership roles. Leadership is influence.... A common theme recently with leaders has been, 'How do I know it's not just my ego?' Their passion is pulled back and held at the edge of powerful release into full expression of true self as their purposef

What do fencing, tae kwon do and wrestling have in common? Two sparring partners determined to take each other down. There can only be one winner. We see it in the workplace when two people compete for attention or reward. It is easy to spot as the battle usually gets bigger until someone has to bow out. What is harder to spot is the internal sparring that goes on inside us, almost daily. Meet The Players Who are the competing partners? The ego and the Wise Advocate. The E

Ever felt like you wished you hadn't got started? They just won't stop talking and pushing advice at you. Most of it is off-beam and nothing you haven't already thought about yourself. Ever felt like you wished you could get started? They won't talk to you and you wonder what advice to give them. You doubt you can offer anything they haven't thought of already. It doesn't matter which side of the conversation you are on, if you are focused on advice, you are probably alread

None of us particularly like being the victim of someone else's ego. We mentally roll our eyes, feel the nipping sensation in our gut, feel the hackles rise. But what about our own ego? Those reactions we just had to someone else's inflated, or perhaps deflated, view of themselves were in fact our own ego coming into play. This little game of hide-n-seek with the mask of the ego is what keeps us locked in to unhealthy exchanges and less productive results. Listening to a pod