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Embracing a Growth Mindset: A Key to Transformational Leadership

Explore how leaders can adopt a growth mindset, overcome challenges, and drive sustainable success with actionable insights and a case study

Reflections on Leadership from Light MY Fire 2024 – The Woman’s Journey

The annual Stellenbosch Business Institute’s “Light MY Fire” learning experience, held on August 29, 2024.

Leadership Lessons from Everest

Inspired by the 2015 film "Everest," I embarked on a trek to Everest Base Camp. This journey taught me invaluable leadership lessons.

4 Key Themes Crucial for Organisational Success

When I was invited to write this month’s BLOG, I felt it an opportune moment to reflect on some prevalent themes and insights we've...

Sense making for collaboration.

After almost 40 years of leading change, I have come to see the process of reflective sense-making as one of the most important enablers for

Navigating the generational hand-down: Shaping the future of Women in Leadership

Explore the intergenerational dynamics shaping the future of women in leadership.

Perspectives on Personal Mastery for the 2024 Leader and Beyond

In the mosaic of global leadership, there exists a universal truth – the profound impact of personal mastery on organizational success.

Strategies and Principles for Business Success

I was recently reminded of the disconnect in difficulty between execution and strategy. Strategy is held in high esteem and well...

Fluid Leadership: Navigating the Future with Agility and Innovation

At its core, fluid leadership is characterized by flexibility, adaptability, and a forward-thinking mindset.

What do you want from the future?

Trends, trends, everywhere trends and trend reports, but how do we use trends in a useful way, come Monday? Enter strategic foresight,...

The Glass Ceiling is a Perception

This is a generalisation, but women create their own glass ceilings by how they view their value and their worth. It is in our very...

'Really' meeting people where they are, as leaders.

We have all heard the phrase "we need to meet people where they are", and used it often ourselves, but how do we do this? This article will

Encouraging Leadership at all levels

The days of hierarchical organisations should be over. In an era where we operate in a global village, it is no longer enough to rely on a h