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Where are they now, the people you once had relationships with? The better question may be: where am I now? For many people leaving corporate life, the silence that follows can be unsettling. The calls slow down. The invitations become fewer. The inbox grows quieter....

Yesterday, while listening to Pam Yako speak about her book The Savanna Code, I found myself reflecting on the mirrors we become for one another. Iplate yamandwendwe did not go to waste: it served wisdom and insight to everyone gathered. Some mirrors help us recognise...

Confidence is an energy flow. You can often feel it before you can explain it. It enters a room before the person has said a word. It shifts the mood, changes emotions and is often seen in the eyes before it is understood by the mind. There is something almost...

A personal argument for turning transition into transformation Interim leadership is too often treated as a stopgap. That is a mistake. I have come to see it as one of the most consequential forms of leadership precisely because it happens when certainty is low,...

Here’s a truth from the driver's seat: If you can't read the road ahead, adjust to it in real time! On my drives, short or long, “road conditions" hit like a perfect leadership metaphor. Advanced driving training drilled it in me: Know your car's limits and your...

Exchanging New Year greetings with my belt maker, I asked her to punch an extra hole as my belt felt too tight. "No problem," she said. As she marked the spot, she paused and said, raw and real (English isn't her first language):  “This is the last hole I can punch....