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Inclusive Leadership

Leading Across Cultures: Why Inclusive Leadership Starts with Self-Awareness

Inclusive leadership begins long before any team meeting or organisational policy. It starts with a deep, honest look inward — understanding our own cultural assumptions, biases, and blind spots.

5 mai 2026Read →
Team Building

The Hidden Cost of Cultural Misunderstanding in International Teams

Miscommunication between cultures rarely announces itself loudly. It seeps in quietly — in a meeting where one person dominates while others stay silent, in feedback that lands as an insult, in a deadline that means different things to different people.

20 avril 2026Read →
Coaching

Coaching as a Tool for Cross-Cultural Leadership Development

What makes coaching particularly powerful for leaders operating across cultures is its fundamentally personalised nature. Unlike training programmes that deliver the same content to everyone, coaching meets each leader exactly where they are.

5 avril 2026Read →
Team Building

Building Psychological Safety in Diverse Teams

Amy Edmondson's research on psychological safety has transformed how organisations think about team performance. But what does psychological safety actually look like in a team where members come from vastly different cultural backgrounds?

21 mars 2026Read →
Coaching

The Management Drives Framework: Understanding What Motivates Your Team

One of the most common mistakes leaders make is assuming their team members are motivated by the same things they are. The Management Drives framework offers a powerful lens for understanding the deep values that drive behaviour at work.

6 mars 2026Read →
Coaching

The Five Golden Rules of Personal Energy

Being in Flow with Your Personal Energy and Maximising Your Performance Hearing the phrase ‘maximising your performance’ makes me yawn and roll my eyes, to be honest, it’s such a worn-out phrase, but a the end of the day – it’s what I want, and it’s often what

13 octobre 2017Read →
Coaching

Who you are and what you look like

I remember at the beginning of my coaching training we learnt about mirroring back to clients. We used the phrase ‘you are’, followed by a description. In a call with a certified coach, but not a coaching conversation, I remember this person said ‘you are’ and

8 août 2017Read →
Coaching

Coaching trends: Do you know an ‘equicoach’?

Is it just me, or have you also noticed a new ‘coaching vibe’? I keep seeing books and articles both in French and English on the subject of ‘equicoaching’ or ‘horse coaching’. Friends and colleagues also notify me about coaches who conduct this kind of work;

2 mars 2017Read →
Coaching

What battle to choose?

About 10 years ago a senior leader advised me to choose my battles carefully. She asked me which project I felt most energy for and which one I thought I was more likely to win – or where I would get a favourable result. At the time I felt energy for all three

6 janvier 2017Read →