News Views and Archives
A growing collection of articles and posts shared across media platforms – as well as archives. Because the core of this work is not only for leaders. It changes lives for adults and children too, many of whom have stories to share – from all walks of life and overcoming all kinds of uncertainty.
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Intuition in Business
Following on from my last post about Spiritual Intelligence (SQ), there’s a question I often get: “But how do I actually trust my intuition in business?” Because let’s be honest — intuition can feel… intangible. Risky, even.We’ve been conditioned to justify decisions with data, not feeling. So here’s the shift: 👉 Intuition isn’t the opposite… Read more
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Who Are You?
In business we’re trained to trust data, strategy and logic. But there’s another intelligence many leaders overlook — Spiritual Intelligence (SQ). Our intuition, gut instinct, inner knowing… whatever name you give it, it has a language that’s unique to each of us. For some people it shows up as a quiet sense of certainty.For others… Read more
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The SQ Revolution in Leadership
Why Spiritual Intelligence Is Becoming Essential For Leaders Leadership is changing For many years leadership development focused on two key capabilities: IQ — Intellectual Intelligence, which enables leaders to analyse information, develop strategy and solve complex problems. Later we recognised the importance of EQ — Emotional Intelligence, helping leaders build relationships, understand themselves and create… Read more
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B.O.L.L.O.C.K.S. to Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrome – let’s resolve it together Whilst most people are familiar with the terminology and symptoms of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ are you aware of just how many business leaders suffer from it? These figures taken from a previous post tell a rather shocking story. So isn’t it time we do something to tackle this problem… Read more
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September is Suicide Awareness Month
Today I’m specifically talking about male suicide. Let’s start with some statistics from the UK Government website detailing monthly rates of death by suspected suicide in England. There were 5,324 recorded deaths from suicide between March 2023 and May 2024. Let’s break it down and take a look at records for the month of May… Read more
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Why B.O.L.L.O.C.K.S. and what does it mean?
Mel Pledger’s prologue to “B.O.L.L.O.C.K.S. to That, I Choose to Shine!” It is said that in order to train an elephant, it is tethered by the leg to a very tall tree while it is still very small. Of course, the elephant is not used to being tied up and spends a long time tugging… Read more
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