If you want coaching to work, here’s where to start
A few months back, I wrote about what happens when the funding for the Coaching Professional Apprenticeship disappears. The real question it raised wasn't what replaces the levy. It was…
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What all those good ideas are really waiting for
Why good ideas often go nowhere I have a notebook problem. Several, if I'm honest. They're full of good ideas. Things that came up in conversations, moments of clarity at…
The noise and the knowing: when you know your stuff but can’t hear yourself think
When the gap starts to show How’s the year going? And I mean really - not the version you’d say out loud to someone who asked at a networking event,…
You don’t actually have to say yes
The moment you notice the expectation The moment arrives in the middle of an ordinary conversation. A decision drifts in your direction. A problem lands on the table. The room…
Somehow it always ends up with you
The decision that needs making. The problem that needs sorting. The conversation that needs steadying. The loose end that no one else seems quite sure how to resolve. No one…
The bit no one really says out loud about running a business through the school holidays
We're just out of Easter. And chances are, you're sitting back down at your desk this week with a slightly strange feeling — part relief, part guilt, part "where on…
What actually belongs with you?
I could carry this… but do I want to? For many capable women, that question arrives later than you might expect. For years the instinct has simply been to deal…
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should
How capability becomes a quiet magnet for responsibility When you can carry things, people let you. The person who can hold the complexity ends up doing exactly that. The one…
Once you can see it
What becomes visible once the pattern is recognised By the time you reach this point, you already recognise the pattern.You’ve seen how thinking gets displaced under pressure. You’ve felt the…
Where thinking goes under pressure
In many organisations, there is a quiet assumption that thinking will happen somewhere else. Not because leaders don’t value it, but because pressure, pace, and accountability compress how much thinking…
