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Leadership and Ego: The Silent Saboteur
I remember sitting in a boardroom some years ago, observing a highly intelligent and experienced executive lead a discussion. The strategy was sound, the data compelling, yet something in the room felt tense. Ideas were being presented but not explored. Questions were...
How to Think Like a Leader
Leadership does not begin with position. It begins with perspective. Long before someone leads a team, a project, or an organisation, they lead themselves — and the quality of that leadership is shaped by how they think. To think like a leader is not about having all...
The Transformative Power of Coaching
“What would you do with your life if you knew you would not fail?” was a transformational question a coach asked me many years ago. For almost 14 years, I worked at a financial institution, but my career took a different turn after a coaching conversation. For the...
Time to Transform Leadership Development
Equipping HR Leaders with HR Analytics Skills for Unprecedented Challenges In an era marked by rapid technological evolution, shifting workforce dynamics, globalization, and unprecedented disruptions ranging from global health crises to economic volatility Human...
Growing People to Grow the Bank: The Human Capital Imperative
The Leadership Challenge The banking industry, like many others, is at a critical juncture where technological advancements, particularly in AI, intersect with the enduring value of human capital. Banking leaders today face a paradox. They invest billions in digital...
The Respect Trap
How Leaders Get It Wrong In many of my group leadership coaching sessions, I have come to realise that there is a deep misunderstanding of the word respect. As part of a values exercise, delegates are requested to choose 10 words (ends values) from a long list. Almost...
Living Ubuntu in a VUCA World: A Personal Reflection
We talk a lot about VUCA—volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity—as if it only lives in boardrooms, the military and policy discussions. But long before the acronym entered leadership theory, I met VUCA on dusty footpaths, sleeping under open skies, carrying...
The Interdependent Leader: Ubuntu’s Call to Self-Mastery
In an age defined by the cult of the individual—where self-reliance is often lauded above all else—we find ourselves increasingly facing collective crises, from environmental imbalance to political fragmentation. The rugged individualist, for all their celebrated...
2026, A Year of Courage, Character & Extraordinary Possibility
Every new year arrives wrapped in quiet promise. 2026 is no different, except that this one is waiting for bold leaders, courageous hearts, and people willing to rise above the noise and choose to live with intention. We do not step into this year by accident. We step...
My Desert and My Ocean
His words hit differently because I’ve been there. My own desert came wrapped in success, or what I thought was success. I had built, achieved, and thrived for years. Then came the pandemic. Like many, I faced loss, but mine wasn’t just professional. It was financial,...
Gratitude: What a Glorious Way to End 2025!
This morning, I was reflecting on 2025 and planning for 2026. It just dawned on me that, instead of being in a hurry to start planning and visioning 2026, I need to pause, take stock, and count my blessings for 2025. The purpose of this article is to help us...
“You’re an idiot. You’ll never go far.”
Most of us have heard some version of that sentence - sometimes shouted, sometimes whispered, sometimes delivered with a smirk that lingers long after the words fade. Your amygdala, the brain’s alarm bell, wants to replay it on a loop, to keep you “safe” by bracing...