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What If Your Boss Was A Computer?

Depending on who you speak to, you might receive any number of predictions for the future of work. Lists, prophecies, and projections abound. However, one universal feature we see amongst them is the impact of advancing artificial intelligence and automation.  …

Marcus de Courtenay & Dr. Chris Rowell
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

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…

Gretel Bakker & Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

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…

Dr. Paul Makeham
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

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’…

Dr. Chris Rowell
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

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…

Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Teams

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…

Marcus de Courtenay & Dr. Natasha Budd
Culture, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

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…

Gretel Bakker & Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Storytelling, Teams

Crypto Credentials – Blockchain Breaking Through Bias

Getting Ahead of Credential Fraud As learning professionals, we put our hearts and minds into designing programs that uplift, educate, and transform. Often these programs provide crucial skills to learners, which organisations will look to when making decisions around suitability…

Dr. Chris Rowell & Marcus de Courtenay
Future of work, Insights, Learning and Development

Reading Between the Lines | Ask vs. Guess Culture at Work

Are you a Guesser or an Asker? It’s still a conversation topic over a decade after the question was first posed back in 2007 by writer, Andrea Donderi. Since then, this somewhat polarising cultural observation has found some legitimising status…

Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Teams

Change is not Transition

In our work life, we are experiencing a high rate of change as we adjust to the fluctuations in the business landscape. The stress of constantly having to adapt can be exhausting and sometimes frustrating. If you’re feeling those symptoms,…

Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Teams