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Our family has a number of rituals that we follow based on the seasons. We just returned from our yearly Easter camping trip at The Basin – a wonderful outdoor spot on the water North of Sydney that enables us to reconnect as a family. We spent plenty of time unplugged as we kayaked, paddle boarded and played heaps of card and board games, not to mention having time for deep conversations about life and the world

It seems that everywhere you turn political debates are raging.  Wherever you look whether it’s television ads, door knocking or flyer dropping it’s in full swing. I had a very interesting conversation with my kids about what they noticed.  The common theme that they said was that all of the ads look to be about pointing out all the negative things about the opposing candidate. This has me thinking about leadership not just in politics,

I was having a chat with a Senior Executive about how staff in today’s business world are very different from the past.  She was complaining a bit how the younger generation has a sense of ‘entitlement’ wanting to quickly move from new employee to running the company making lots of money. When I asked her to describe some of the great things that their current leadership team was doing to connect and inspire the younger

“I know that I need to do something, however, I’m just not sure what to do?” This statement came from a Senior Leader that I recently started working with. They knew that they were a bit stuck in no man’s land and were afraid of doing the wrong thing, hence why their business results had started to plateau and things were feeling very disorganised and difficult. When you are feeling a bit overwhelmed it can

I have been at a Strategy Retreat in Queenstown New Zealand with a group of Thought Leader Black Belts (an amazing group of experts who work with organisations and individuals to help them achieve more).  Of course we enjoyed the Queenstown vibe with a bit of helicopter riding, jet boating and wonderful food, however, it was more about the recharge. It is often said that when you hang out with people that are smarter than