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The Stories We Live By: How Life Scripts Shape Our Leadership

We all have life scripts — internal stories that shape how we lead, relate, and react. In this reflective blog, I explore how those scripts form, how they can help or hinder leadership, and how coaching can unlock a different, more empowering path forward.

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The Top 5 Leadership Behaviours That Drive Team Performance

Whether you’re leading in healthcare, business, or beyond - the way you lead matters. This blog explores five core leadership behaviours that consistently drive team performance, drawn from work with both NHS and global organisations. Practical, people-focused, and grounded in real experience.

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Coaching to Overcome Limiting Beliefs: Helping Leaders Get Unstuck

Many leaders feel stuck — not because they lack skills or drive, but because of limiting beliefs they’ve internalised over time. These beliefs shape how we see ourselves and what we believe is possible. As a leadership coach, I’ve seen firsthand how powerful it can be when clients start challenging these internal narratives. In this blog, I explore how coaching helps surface those beliefs, reframe them, and unlock new possibilities — using tools like Byron Katie’s four liberating questions.

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Valuing Values

I’ve been exploring 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀 this week; particularly in the context of coaching.

Basically - 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳?

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Making connections

Humans are pack animals. We connect and work together…

🚴 To have fun
🐯 To survive
🌱 To thrive

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Aligning values and business choices

Really enjoyed this conversation with Megan Schirnhofer about the decisions we make - both personally and professionally - and how they align with our core values.

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Listening for change

Where do you focus your efforts during change - the process or the people? Lots of change relies of what we call “communication” and I think communication is two-way? However, how many change programmes over-index on broadcast? How many actually spend more time listening?

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What if…?

But what if I can’t do it, and it all goes wrong?
But what if I try and I fall?
But what if…

…it works out?

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Climbing that mountain

🚴‍♂️ Today, I begin my climb up my very own Mont Ventoux - a new career mountain to conquer.

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Reasons to be cheerful

Travelling home on a cold December evening, after wrapping up my contract with Gamma, I find myself reflecting on an incredible 15-month journey - and everything I’m grateful for.

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