Conscious advice.
A compilation of articles to help you to be your true self and to follow your own path.
The Leadership Humanity Gap
You might think you're an authentic leader. But do the people around you experience you that way?
When My Own Advice Became Exactly What I Needed
When everything feels urgent, leaders create space to think. Your brain wasn't designed to hold everything. Here's what great leaders do instead.
The Most Important Leadership Tool You're Not Using
The best strategic thinking often begins when leaders step outside the office.
The Leadership Signal We Often Ignore
Executive leadership demands our attention in countless directions. We are expected to respond to complexity, navigate uncertainty, drive performance, and make decisions in environments that rarely slow down.
Culture Is Everyone’s Business
Culture isn’t created at the top, it’s shaped by everyone, every day. Leadership isn’t a title, it’s behaviour we all see, influence, and are responsible for.
What Nature Taught Me About Leadership (That the Boardroom Never Has)
What if the leadership clarity, resilience, and calm you’re looking for isn’t found in another strategy session—but waiting just outside your door?
Leadership Lessons from a Typhoon
Travel has a way of revealing who we are - what happens to your leadership style when the weather changes?
Part 3 - Leading in the Now and Post Pandemic
Something to ponder as we head into the New Year; who or what are you relinquishing control over by putting it into the ‘uncontrollable’ basket?
Part 2 - Leading in the Now and Post Pandemic
Does this sound familiar? With finite resources, you're being consistently pressured to deliver more and deliver faster. Each day, more and more work comes your way. Everyone is exhausted.
Leading in the Now and Post Pandemic
As we continue to adapt to a world of uncertainty leaders need to help their people find certainty in the things they can control, provide direction and a centre of focus through prioritisation, and most importantly set boundaries that allow clarity and provide a sense of control over their experience.
What Is The Key To Building Resilient Teams? Recovery
These statements and more I hear daily from the leaders I work with. Not only are they concerned for the impact on the quality of work, but also for the health of their people.
Self-doubt Is Not A Barrier, It's Part Of The Process
Have you ever had one of those inspirational light bulb moments and before you can tell anyone, you've already talked yourself out of it and remained silent?
The Confidence Of Success
I've spoken to many professional women all whom feel a sense of loss in their confidence during this disruptive time of rapid change and uncertainty.
It's Time To Take Matters Into Your Own Hands?
Have you ever decided that you were going to cook your favourite meal? You write down a list of all the ingredients you need, pop down to the grocery store to purchase them and bring them home. Then for one reason or another, it never gets cooked? This is exactly what happens with the development planning process.
Do You Know What It Takes to Lead Virtually?
I still remember the very first time I was thrown into the deep end to lead a fully virtual team, it was in January 2011, during the Brisbane floods. To provide some context, I was already leading a team in a ‘flexible work’ environment. Put simply, a flexible work environment is a mix of team members working co-located in the office and work from home on a rotation. So, when we were required to pack up our things and all head home to work remotely, honestly, I thought it wouldn’t be very different to how the team already operated.
Leading Through Uncertainty
We are certainly living through unprecedented times and with that comes uncertainty, fear and anxiety. Over the last two decades we’ve become accustomed to things changing and changing quickly, but never this rapidly. We find ourselves living and working in a very unfamiliar environment; self-isolation, social distancing, working from home, leading virtual teams.
Conscious Leaders Mind the Gap
Exceptional Leaders are conscious leaders who understand the KNOWING-DOING Gap; the difference between knowing what to do and actually doing it.
Joy: What A Great Leader Needs To Know
Whether you lead a team or lead yourself, when you are leading with joy you understand the importance joy plays in igniting creativity and innovation; the role it plays in maintaining a healthy mind; and how it improves empathy, communication and connection. And you also know that it can’t always be about work, that sometimes purposeless is good.
What Is Effective Decision Making?
We are constantly making decisions, from the moment we wake in the morning until the time we go to sleep at night. But how many of those decisions do we make consciously? How many do we stop and think through what form of action we should take?
Podcast: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Recognise Your Own Potential
This week on The Desmore Chats With Podcast, I chatted with all about imposter syndrome, how to let go of comparing ourselves with others, fear of failure, self-worth and cultivating inner confidence. This is a powerful conversation that will help you to build a deeper more meaningful connection with yourself. Most importantly helping you to recognise your own potential and finding your way back home to your inner world and soul.
Let’s Have a Conversation
You don't need to know exactly what you need. You don't need to have a five-year plan and you certainly don't need to have it all together. If something here has resonated with you, let's talk. We'll explore where you are, what's happening for you, and what you're hoping to create.
No pressure, no obligation, simply a conversation about what might be possible from here.
With over 25 years’ experience working with individuals, leaders and teams as a coach and facilitator, I generate conversations that create sustainable change through connection, clarity, confidence, and creating a new path forward.
If this speaks to you, connect with me for an obligation free chat, and let’s get the conversation started.