When we're judged for being too emotional, we can react by 'toning down' our expression and question everything about our communication. We become unsure of ourselves and even silence our ideas.

Under pressure leaders find themselves firing off answers and solutions because it's quicker, and because they don't know why their people keep coming to them with the same problems.

In this short clip from our last Live Breakfast Event for Women in Leadership and Business of 2020, we explore where expectations come from and why we keep working to live up to them.

Leaders are expected to have all the answers, even when they don't. The best answer right now is one that provides certainty, even in the most uncertain circumstances.

When we don't know how to deal with our emotions in a healthy way we can get stuck on the emotional roller coaster. It's exhausting! Here are 3 things that will help you get off the emotional roller coaster and have the impact and influence you want to have.

When it comes to having courageous and difficult conversations, most people either try to control them or avoid them altogether. But it's only because they haven't learned the 3 key steps to make these kind of conversations easy.

There are 3 things you can do to connect better online - one of them is to not take things personally - easier to say than do sometimes. Tune into this video to hear what you can do differently today to improve your online meetings.

Do you feel overwhelmed sometimes? It can happen when we're trying to push through all the things we feel responsible for, when what we actually need in that moment is a little space.

Many of us feel guilty for things we do or don't do - for taking time out for ourselves, for not doing more for others, for working while we think we should be parenting and vice versa.

In uncertain and challenging times our trigger points are closer to the surface, meaning we will react more quickly, more often and also with more charge.

In this video I share how both of these styles are lacking in their ability to build the kind of trust and emotional safety that has people want to try new things, take risks and come up with new solutions.

When a problem, crisis, trauma or significant event has occurred, we often want to help those we care about move on quickly, all with good intentions.

In these unprecedented and uncertain times, it's natural to feel a range of powerful and sometimes all-consuming emotions - fear, grief, anger, confusion, blame, judgment, sadness and despair.

Many Senior Leadership Teams operate as a group of high performing individuals rather than a high performing team. Most are tolerating each other or cooperating at best.

That meeting we’re about to walk into, and just before we do we realise it’s the same meeting (aka people) that triggered us last time. These are the moments self-awareness really helps.

Work-life balance is a made up concept and a conversation we buy into because we think it's what we should be striving for. But to strive for balance, we first must believe we're out of balance, and I think that's where we set ourselves up for failure.

How do I say thank you? How in the world do I express my infinite appreciation and deep gratitude for the trust my clients give me, for their willingness to keep showing up with courage and openness?

We know new results are found on the other side of our comfort zone, but this momentary feeling of relief reminded me how equally important surrender is to allowing in new thinking, new connection and new awareness.