Finding My Why in New York – Simon Sinek Style
2017 was the year of really finding my passion – namely group coaching and facilitating around shifting behaviours and mental models and maps. The problem was, I wasn’t sure why [...]
And That is How Leaders Create Compliance, Thinking it is Great Leadership
LEADER (as a participant in the room), " So we all agree it is....." or the faster, "Does everyone agree ?" ROOM ..... some nods, mostly that suspicious silence that [...]
13 Years as Deepest – Where Are The Women ?
Today, back in 2004, after almost 6 hours in the water I surfaced with a new Guinness World record for the Deepest dive by a Woman in Scuba! My dive [...]
When Roles Own Delivery – how to shift that to teams
One of the interesting parts of my job as a Agile Transformation Coach is the shift from command and control cultures (that created waterfall as a way of delivering software), [...]
Listen to my Talk from Agile Africa 2017 on Agile Leadership Labs
Alomgside all the other talks from Agile Africa 2017, my talk is now available on YouTube. I was talking about my passion, creating spaces where people are able to shift [...]
Living my Awesome, Creating Awesome Workplaces, Delivering Awesome Products
This ain’t a short, in and out post! It’s about finding and living from a deeper sense of purpose and finding and connecting with people who are also living from [...]
Unilateral Control isn’t Restricted to Leaders…
We tend to think of command and control (unilateral control) as something that only leaders live. The language we use re-in forces this belief, especially as the values that Roger [...]
Scrum Gathering Here I Come!
It seems to be the year for me to speak at conferences. Agile Africa went really well and the topic seems to be connecting well into a new direction for [...]
Finding Peace when living in an emotional world
Many people think excitement is happiness. But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace. At any moment, you have a choice, that either [...]
A New Way of Using Information – Distributed Intelligence
"Could the next leap in evolution arise out of a shift in identification, in which we shed the story of battling for supremacy and move instead to playing our role [...]