Partnership, collaboration and support are all key to your success as a woman leader, Nowhere more so than with your team. Ideally, your team needs to comprise a group of people with a balanced mix of complementary natural talents. Creative, innovative people to create value. Outgoing, people-people to leverage that value through their teams, […]
Dr Almira Ross
Unconscious Bias at Play
All those unconscious biases that govern our behaviour, our thoughts and words. The ones that can so easily hold us back… We all harbour unconscious biases. Thoughts, words, actions, values and beliefs we learned on our mother’s knees and now so much a part of our day-to-day, that we don’t even know they are there. […]
Shaming and Taming
I hit rock bottom a few days ago during a deep detox program I’ve been doing. Anger, frustration, a sense that I was, once again, swallowing my own emotions to fit in with and please others. Except this time, I let those feelings flow, and discovered the great gift these uncomfortable emotions had to offer. […]
Bringing Balance to your Leadership
Balance in Leadership Today is the Spring Equinox when, in the Northern Hemisphere, we are reminded of that exquisite balance of day and night, light and dark, the inner and the outer world. Today the focus is on the creative, life-giving energy of spring, a time to sow new seeds, new projects, new beginnings. In […]
What Does Authentic Leadership Mean?
“I don’t feel I can be authentic at work”. I hear this from so many of the powerful women leaders I coach. It breaks my heart that they hold back and diminish their power by failing to speak their truth. Why? FEAR. And the assumption they need to fit in or else…. And this in […]
Why Mastering Technology is SO Important
Technology, especially digital technology, is one of the most powerful forces for change. As #ChangeMakers, it’s important we not only understand, but embrace, these technologies to put real drive and momentum behind the changes we want to see in the world.
Why Your Business is Like a Food Forest
What, you may ask, is a Food Forest? And how on earth is that like a business? As many of you know, I’m passionate about permaculture gardening — a way of growing fruit, nuts, herbs and vegetables in harmony with nature. Rather than trying to impose my will on the land, with neat rows of […]
