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About Gayle Hardie

Gayle is internationally recognised for her capability, enthusiasm and experience in the world of leadership and organisation transformation. She currently works with boards and senior leaders all over the world in a range of areas, including: transformational leadership and change in individuals and organisations, strategic planning and development, emotional health and leadership resilience, leading through facilitating, strengthening collaboration, and board and executive mentoring and coaching.

A truly enlightening (leadership) experience

For many years now, Global Leadership Foundation has provided leaders with unique opportunities to visit remote locations in order to explore, reflect on and gain new insight and perspectives about themselves, others and their impact on the world around them. During these leadership experiences, participants have time to critically and thoughtfully look at themselves and [...]

By |2024-03-20T12:31:04+11:00March 20th, 2024|News|0 Comments

Re-imagining an organisation as a living system

This month we welcome a guest post from our friend and colleague Dayle O’Brien. Dayle is an organisational ecologist whose specific interest is in working with organisations to help create living systems in which both people and the overall business get to thrive. Dayle’s contribution here is timely in B Corp Month 2024 as she [...]

By |2024-03-04T10:31:38+11:00March 5th, 2024|Blog|0 Comments

Assembly 2024 is a gathering of B Corps from across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the first such gathering for five years. The three-day event will be held at Cape Schanck in Victoria from February 26 to 28. Malcolm will be presenting at this year's conference, on the topic 'Head, heart, and gut: Where we [...]

By |2024-02-06T10:31:09+11:00February 6th, 2024|News|0 Comments

The secret ingredient of extraordinary leadership

In their ground-breaking book The Extraordinary Leader*, John Zenger and Joe Folkman demonstrate the enormous difference in effectiveness between extraordinary leaders and their ‘average’ counterparts. Translated into our language of emotional health, they show that emotionally healthy leaders at level 3 or higher – those making up the top 20 per cent of leaders – [...]

By |2024-02-06T09:55:37+11:00February 6th, 2024|Blog|0 Comments

Staying above the line while striving to making a difference

Our world is full of things that could be better. On that I think we are generally in agreement. Unfortunately, there is also a tendency for some people to sit and wait for others to ‘fix’ it, coming up with many reasons to justify why they can’t do it themselves. In our world of emotionally [...]

By |2023-12-18T16:20:16+11:00December 19th, 2023|Blog|Comments Off on Staying above the line while striving to making a difference

Our annual report for 2023

We've recently completed the Global Leadership Foundation Annual Report for 2023. In 2023, our work has continued to focus on working with leaders and organisations in the following areas: emotional health and resilience strategic direction and governance engagement and support of young leaders social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. This support is carried out through four [...]

By |2023-12-07T17:10:53+11:00December 7th, 2023|News|Comments Off on Our annual report for 2023

How do I move above the line if I realise I am below it?

Regular readers of our blog will understand that emotional health is an enhanced state of wellbeing characterised by mindful practices, conscious choices and respectful relationships. An emotionally healthy person is constructive, showing up in a way that has a positive effect on those around them. You will also understand that all of this comes from [...]

By |2023-10-02T16:41:35+11:00October 3rd, 2023|Blog|Comments Off on How do I move above the line if I realise I am below it?

The importance of self-care in maintaining emotional health

One of the characteristics of high levels of emotional health is a deep desire to help others – to make a difference. This reflects the low degree of self-centredness we have discussed previously. However, perhaps somewhat paradoxically, this concern for others can sometimes lead to a shortfall in looking after ourselves. In just the last [...]

By |2023-09-12T09:21:47+10:00September 5th, 2023|Blog|Comments Off on The importance of self-care in maintaining emotional health

Emotional health and First Nations leadership

In last month’s blog post we explored the notion of community leadership in tough times, the unique challenges sometimes placed on community leaders and the role emotional health can play in helping such leaders navigate these challenges. This month I’d like to continue this line of thought in the context of Australia’s upcoming referendum on [...]

By |2023-07-31T10:39:44+10:00August 1st, 2023|Blog|Comments Off on Emotional health and First Nations leadership

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