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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 year in the life of the Foundation

Given the range of work we do and the diversity of our client base, many people may forget that the word ‘foundation’ in our name is there for a reason. Global Leadership Foundation was created to raise the emotional health levels across the planet by providing leadership development opportunities for leaders from all walks of [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:24+11:00December 16th, 2014|Blog|2 Comments

Making Meetings Meaningful

One of the conversations we frequently have with leaders and team members relates to the number of meetings they “have to attend”, how time consuming these meetings are and, in many cases, how irrelevant much of the content is to what attendees see as the meeting’s goals. We all know the feeling of arriving at [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:24+11:00October 16th, 2014|Blog|Comments Off on Making Meetings Meaningful

A better way of looking at ‘balance’

Credit: D. Sharon Pruitt   I had the privilege of being a ‘coachee’ last month, supporting one of my colleagues in the accreditation process she is undertaking to be a recognized coach. Around the mid-point of the coaching conversation, she asked me to tell her more about ‘balance’ – the word I had [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:24+11:00September 10th, 2014|Blog|7 Comments

Looking for a Leader

Photo By: SSG Robert Stewart   In 2006 I heard the song Lookin’ for a Leader, written and sung by Neil Young. It reflected a significant mood at the time in the USA. Young was asking for a different kind of leader “with great spirit on his side” to step into the role [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:24+11:00August 19th, 2014|Blog|Comments Off on Looking for a Leader

Organisation renewal

Over the past decade, we have worked with many not-for-profit organisations who have experienced an ever-increasing requirement to do more with less as well as develop a greater business focus in order to compete for resources. As a consequence, several have identified an increasing distancing and separation from the spirit in which they were created.  [...]

By |2022-07-28T15:38:06+10:00August 5th, 2014|News|Comments Off on Organisation renewal

Navigating through Change (part 2)

Credit: Thomas Abbs In my last blog post I shared a number of responses and reactions to change that are less than effective and that keep us ‘below the line’ when dealing with change: those of the ‘victim’, ‘critic’ and ‘bystander’. This month I want to explore the characteristics of the ‘navigator’ of [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:25+11:00July 22nd, 2014|Blog|1 Comment

Navigating through Change

Credit: John Fowler http://www.lumenetic.com/ Over the past few weeks, I have found myself in a number of discussions focused on change and the difficulties people have in working through it. These discussions have occurred in both personal and work situations and often begin with a ‘below the line’ comment – an expression of [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:26+11:00June 23rd, 2014|Blog|Comments Off on Navigating through Change

Listening without interrupting

I have just experienced the company of a wonderful group of people from all parts of the world at a Global Leadership Foundation retreat. We represented eight diverse countries and many more communities of practice and learning. Each person bought their own wealth of experience, knowledge and wisdom into the space and as we came [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:29+11:00April 23rd, 2014|Blog|Comments Off on Listening without interrupting

Rediscovering informality in the workplace

Emmanuel Milou - Creative Commons License By Gayle Hardie Today’s workplace is very different from that of only a few years ago. Of course there are differences in technology and the resultant enormous transformations in the way we all work. But it’s more than that. One of the more subtle changes – and [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:30+11:00January 21st, 2014|Blog|2 Comments

Generosity of Spirit

Growing together through generosity of spirit   As we come towards the end of another year, the focus of our attention can often shift from what still needs to be achieved in our world of work to what gifts (if any) might be fitting for our friends and family – an interesting and [...]

By |2017-02-08T12:22:31+11:00December 16th, 2013|Blog|4 Comments
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