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 [...]
One of the powerful aspects of emotional health is that is supported by a number of principles, each of which can be very valuable even on its own. We’ve discussed many of these in our blog over time, including the line of choice, the inner observer and the centres of intelligence. This time I want [...]
Over the last month we’ve had the good fortune of being in some of the most breathtaking and remote locations in South Australia’s Ikara-Flinders Ranges with two groups of leaders on our Ikara-Ediacara: Past, Present and Future Leadership Experience. Our journey was one of reconnecting with the past: 30,000-year-old petroglyphs created by First Nations peoples [...]
Anyone who has done any work with us around emotional health will likely be familiar with a number of key concepts we often return to – such as ‘above and below the line’, the ‘inner observer’ and ‘behavioural freedom’. While all of these are foundational to emotional health, each is powerful in its own right. [...]
