Listening to world women speakers at the Women Economic Forum last year it struck me that leadership is too general as a term. 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.... ESSENTIAL PRESENCE Women need a personal presence that comes from their own essence. A power that influences rather than demands, and deep self-assuranc

How do you find your way into your wisdom amidst the noise of distracting, superficial thought and information? Why would you try...? Maybe we know we are missing out on something far more expansive, visionary and world-changing. Maybe the answers are simple - too simple for us to be interested. Maybe we could find not only truth but happiness as well. How would your world change if you knew that success is right in the palm of your hand when you stop right where you are an

MINDFULNESS FOR CONSCIOUS LEADERS In leadership development we use personality profiles to diagnose potential and behaviour, but do you know how to diagnose your thoughts? Three states of mind make up our menu of choice. Here's a simple method of identifying your own state of mind drawn from yogic understanding of the mind: 1. Inertia, apathy, insensitiveness, indifference 2. Uncontrolled, busy, desiring, worrying, criticising, frustration 3. Calm, resourceful, compassionat

Do we really have the right perspective on 'fear'? How do we befriend fear and succeed without it? With the focus on unacceptably high levels of mental ill-health and anxiety pervading our workplaces right now, we need to find better ways to work. Fear has too much power - enough to change our minds and our chemistry. But it doesn't need to be what it used to be, this great bogey 'Fear'. Awareness is powerful An executive banking manager was having frequent panic attacks in

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