Organisations are made of humans. I connect with the humans – their hearts and souls – not just their roles. I also lead with my soul and heart. 

As a course designer and facilitator, I design and facilitate for emotional resonance, meaningful connection and collective wisdom. One of the most consistent pieces of feedback I have received for over 10 years is that people feel safe in our sessions to be vulnerable and open. In one zoom breakout room, an employee confessed a secret she had held with pain for years. We worked out a way for her to atone for something she had done and transform it into something that serves others. She left with her face lit up, like a burden had been lifted.  From our sessions, people are likely to remember the warmth they felt. Or a heartfelt story their peer shared. Or something deeper that shifted within them. 

In one-to-one work, with full presence, I open up a radically open space for anything related to the highest good to emerge, with specific focus on experiencing meaning and depth in life.   I am comfortable with the full gamut of emotions.  Non-judgement and compassion are important to me so people share their innermost feelings and struggles.  I don’t hold back my humanness and may  purposefully share a vulnerable story of mine. I support pro-social values and don’t coach for performance at the cost of people’s wellbeing. Coaching approaches that resonate with me are servant leadership coaching (see the book “The Art of Coaching for Servant Leadership”), trauma-informed therapeutic coaching, positive psychology coaching, and strengths coaching.

I am an activator of the heart in barren places. I believe that universal Love is the most powerful, transformational force in the world and yet it is often left out of traditional institutions such as leadership and workplaces. Its mere name is taboo. If we truly saw our colleagues as our brothers and sisters, and precious human beings we wouldn’t subject them to the kind of working conditions many live through. We wouldn’t need a business case to take care of them. There’s lots of frameworks and theories on what to do in organisations but what I see missing is more fundamental – the vibrant heart caring for people. 

The workplace is under-tapped as a place for societal transformation. People spend most of their waking hours at work and many dread it.  I believe we can create workplaces as educational institutions to nurture more evolved human beings, as places where service to the public is a genuine form of  community care and as wellbeing hubs for employees and their families. 

The voices I have heard over more than a decade have led me to be sensitive to ground-truths.  I have seen organisations offer counselling access or short wellbeing workshops (like with us) for staff whose mental health suffered because of the workplace culture in the first place. Others have reminded me that some staff in charge of issues like wellbeing may not have much power and influence. I seek to partner with clients to make real change. We still meet time-strapped clients where they are (and hope to bring them further). This is done through shorter offerings such as our bite-sized and ready-made workshops. We also seek to make deeper change through our consulting work, coaching and our signature programmes. 

I am committed to my healing and growth so I can access more of my innate potential and serve with more depth and clarity.  

I blog at quiet beauty. 

If you feel called, please book a clarity call with me so we can explore how we could nurture more enlightened spaces together.