Conscious leadership

Amplifying Voices: Optimal Feedback Loops

A San Francisco-based executive consultant recounts a conversation he overheard about Steve Jobs’ feedback style while at Pixar. Jobs would point to a person in a meeting and ask, “Tell me what’s not working at Pixar.” He would continue to...

Headwinds and Tailwinds

If you’re serious about diversity and inclusion, pay attention to the winds. Many of us have experienced exclusion at some point in our lives – a time we felt the acute pain of being overlooked, underestimated, or belittled. If we’re...

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Shift is a Learning Shift

The case for diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) in organisations has been made extensively. To start, in our practice at Performance Frontiers we see it as the right thing to do on a human level. We are also seeing that...

Regenerative Leader Mindsets

What can you do to become a Regenerative Leader? Nature has been practicing the art of regeneration for eons.  Salamanders and newts can re-grow their limbs, tail, jaw, and retina. A scorpion replenishes its venom reservoir with a different composition...

Who’s Got YOU? | Self-Care for Leaders

An iconic moment in Superman: The Movie still resonates decades after the film’s release in 1978. Lois Lane, dangling precariously from a helicopter, suddenly loses her grip. As she plummets earthward down the side of a skyscraper, Superman miraculously swoops...

Leading Through Ambiguity

Are you climbing the ladder, spinning your wheels, or up the creek without a paddle? The use of simple analogies in business is widespread. They help us quickly grasp and communicate feelings, concepts, and processes because we all ‘get it’...

The Power of a Kindness Ecosystem

The power of kindness to bring us joy is a tale as old as time. The Buddha teaches:   “If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”  What we have come to know as well is that kindness propagates. In 2015, Kathy Hart...

Trust in the Age of Affinity

We are living in an Age of Affinity and when it comes to work, people are attracted to organisations and teams that share their purpose and values. For leaders, one implication of this is the importance of finding the right...

The Power of Shared Language

Have you ever had a cryptic conversation with a close friend? The kind where you only need a few keywords and phrases for them to understand you? The kind that anyone else you know would have trouble deciphering? That quick...