In our last blog post, we considered the distinction between leaders who tend towards being ‘direct’ in their interactions with others and those who tend towards being ‘blunt’. We used this comparison to distinguish between an authentic, effective, emotionally healthy leader and one who isn’t. As we discussed, being ‘authentic’ as a leader includes being [...]
One of the conversations I have been having with leaders lately is around being ‘authentic’ and what that means for the way in which they lead and enable others. Many leaders express a recognition that it is critical to ‘be yourself’ in the way you ‘show up’ as a leader. People need to know who [...]
The following article was originally posted in 2016 after we were first certified as a B Corp. It was updated in March 2022. When Global Leadership Foundation was established in 2003 we were very clear about what we wanted to achieve and the impact we wanted to have. We had personally and professionally experienced a range [...]
It’s not every day you have the opportunity to launch a new app, however we are very excited that today is one of those days for Global Leadership Foundation! In this post we want to share the story of the app and introduce it to you. As I’ve written before, when Malcolm and I initially [...]
Four years ago this month, I wrote a blog post reflecting on the need for more leaders to make conscious choices to affect who they are and how they impact others. Virtually half of our lives since that post have been spent living with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, including drastic changes to our [...]
This month we welcome a guest contributor to our blog. Mai Avery has over a decade’s experience in ecommerce. She is a member of the inaugural 2021 cohort for the Small Giant’s Mastery of Business & Empathy program on which Gayle has been a member of the faculty and during which Mai received coaching from [...]
We were very pleased to hear the news this month that Tania Verbeeck, filmmaker and cousin of Global Leadership Fellow Joy Gillies, was awarded winner of the best documentary at the inaugural Sony Film Festival. Tania's film, Women Take on Nepal, is an inspirational (and incredibly scenic) story about two brave and resilient young women from [...]
Have you ever been at a meeting in which someone is going through the motions but is not truly present? Or a meeting in which someone is clearly troubled by something when they arrive yet they don’t say anything about it? Have you left a meeting and only in hindsight realised that one or more [...]
In the past month, I have met with one of our colleagues from Hong Kong, Amy Yeung, who is creating an ebook titled Career Planning in Times of Uncertainty. As part of this development, she is partnering with the University of Hong Kong to develop a supporting workshop and was interested in exploring some practical [...]
Are you busy? Those of you old enough to remember working life before computers might also remember the promises that technology offered when it arrived on the scene. In the late 1980s, some social researchers were genuinely concerned about the risks of people having insufficient purpose if they had too much spare time on their [...]
