It is so interesting to see the world of leadership engaging with the word ‘caring’. Finally the importance of building and strengthening genuine and supportive relationships is being recognised as integral to effective leadership. What is valuable in exploring this amazing quality is recognition that caring comes in a variety of forms. It is so [...]
Gayle recently co-facilitated the first three-day retreat for 'Opening Doors', a six-month community leadership program focussed on social inclusion. During the retreat, participants were asked to share their thoughts and ideas regarding social inclusion and community leadership and what it meant to them. The following is a story one of the groups created and we [...]
As many readers will know, the majority of the work that Global Leadership Foundation does is conducted with organisations – businesses, government and not-for-profits. After many requests from participants and others in the Global Leadership community, Gayle and Malcolm have been encouraged to host and co-facilitate a public Enneagram Immersion program in October this year. [...]
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you’ve probably become reasonably familiar with one of the key concepts associated with emotional health: the notion of the automated response. You’ll understand that one of the keys to improved emotional health is the ability to catch your automated responses before they happen, instead responding in [...]
Interdependence. What an interesting word to explore with an amazing group of B Corps at the Europe Summer Summit in Cascais, Portugal at the end of June 2017. As part of attending, my role was to facilitate Open Space around the question, 'What can we do together that we can’t do apart?'. With over 200 people in [...]
When we are describing a leader with high emotional health levels we are describing someone who engages in mindful practices and makes ‘conscious choices’ in their decision making. What does this mean? What are conscious choices and why are they an important aspect of emotionally healthy leadership? When a leader is under pressure to make [...]
What does your business stand for? What is its purpose? How are you contributing to the greater good? How will you ensure that you continue to achieve you what aspire to in a sustainable way? These were certainly not the questions we were being asked when we established Global Leadership Foundation in 2003. In fact, [...]
Alice Springs – the heart of Australia – was the setting for the inaugural B Corp Champions Retreat for Australia/New Zealand from May 3rd to 5th 2017. Over 118 people – including one of B Lab’s founders, Bart Houlahan and B Lab partners from across the globe – came together to explore the question “What we can do together [...]
This month has turned out to be one of significant travel for Gayle and Malcolm. It started with that trip to Central Australia for the B Corp Champions Retreat and Spirit of Leadership experience. They returned to Melbourne briefly before heading to Europe where they will work with local Global Leadership Fellows to host 'Taste of Tables [...]
From May 2017, Malcolm and I, along with our Global Leadership Fellows, have started bringing together networks of like-minded leaders to collectively make a difference across the world. We’re doing this through our global initative: ‘Tables of Ten’. At a time of widespread disconnect, lack of inclusion, separatism, competition and greed, we are inviting authentic and [...]
