How does Jacinda Ardern Step on Stage
How does Jacinda Ardern Step on Stage Trust and power can be the elusive obvious. We grasp at solutions, create a consistent pattern of behaviour, wear the right clothes and build our strength of argument, only to pass over the key currency, our personal delivery, right under our nose, literally. Fortunately, there are new expressions […]
The Enthusiasm Hack: How your body can change your mind
The Enthusiasm Hack: How your body can change your mind In a rush to stay calm in the modern world, I think we have forgotten the key skill of ‘enthusiasm’. As Quintilian would say: “A good man speaks not just to persuade, but to uplift.” And it doesn’t matter whether you are speaking, be it […]
Your SWAT for communication
Your SWAT for communication Challenge accepted and I come from a place where getting your communication skills right is absolutely critical, not just for those to whom you speak, but for yourself, because without the skills, confidence can shatter (I see it daily). I believe it so strongly that I have spent most of my […]
Mushroom Woman
Mushroom Woman Guilty! It’s the big story. It’s a huge story, but is it a story relevant to our lives? Listening to ABC radio, a lot of people are horrified about the news focus on the mushroom poisoning story, commonly referred to as the Mushroom Woman case. Why the podcast? Why the daily update? Why […]
In the moment
In the moment I’m in London, and you have that experience where you’re rushing down the stairs trying to get to the train, and there are several trains that come through the same stop. You know that if you don’t rush, you’ll miss your one, and it’ll be ages until the next one. So I […]
Greetings from France and I feel fabulous
Greetings from France and I feel fabulous Greetings from France and I feel fabulous. No tiredness. No time distortion. No jetlag. Sometimes you are just lucky. Recently in Sydney, I had lunch with Dr Karl. What an icon! He was telling me about his recipe for avoiding jetlag, which involved melatonin, absolutely no food […]
How to write your introduction
How to write your Introduction I’m always inspired by my coaching clients. This week I am inspired to write something in response to a passing comment. That passing comment came this week from a client who told me she was doing a presentation for an external group and was told: “We will leave it up […]
Compare the pair – how to use creative links and segues
Compare the pair – how to use creative links and segues Don’t we just love a drama! Well, I do anyway. I love the whole Mushroom Woman story and so do the rest of Australia if the ABC podcast is anything to go by. Where I don’t like drama is when I get up to […]
The Confident Leader Retreat
The Confident Leader Retreat Join me at the retreat, 20th – 22nd August 2025. I have my only public retreat this year. If you are prepared to work on your body, your voice and your frameworks, the skills of gravitas, this is the retreat for you. As a 2.5 day immersion, there is no better […]
Costume
Costume There was nothing I loved more than when my son was little and we went to Woolworths and he would wear his Superman costume. It absolutely changed him. Don’t you just love the adults who stop and say “Oh my heavens, who do we have here?”. When that happened to my son would stand […]