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Every executive faces the same constraint - just 24 hours in a day. How that time is spent determines not only your personal impact but also the outcomes of your team, your peers, and your organisation. The most effective leaders make deliberate choices about where to invest their attention, turning time from a passive resource into a strategic advantage. Your Most Valuable Executive Asset is Time. Introducing the Executive Time Assessment To help leaders take stock, I’ve cre

As 2025 comes to an end, I wanted to share a brief reflection on the year - the work I’ve been involved in, what I’ve learned, and what I’m grateful for - here is 2025 in review. As in previous years, instead of sending gifts to clients, I made a donation to One Girl . Their work supports some of the most disadvantaged young women around the world to access education and create more choices for their future. It’s a cause I’m proud to support. This year included a mix of clien

The Roman generals of antiquity are remembered for their strategy, discipline, and ability to lead men in the most demanding of...

My Barista Read My Book Recently, I was quietly surprised when my local barista told me they’d read Making Life Happen (my book about...

Over recent months, I’ve spoken more frequently with leaders, teams, and coaching clients about something simple—but incredibly powerful:...

Life is an opportunity for growth, reflection, and action. While everyone’s path is unique, five key elements can help shape a fulfilling...

Are you risking your organisation’s success by failing to align your leadership team? Research by LSA Global found that companies with...

Around eighty per cent of people fail to sustain their New Year’s resolutions. I've shifted away from making news year’s resolutions to...

The right person can lift you up, enable you to achieve some things sooner than expected, and be there when life throws you a curly one.

Many people spend five days of the week at work - a huge chunk of our time. I've always thought about how work can positively contribute...

Readers of Making Life Happen have said there's so much in the book that can be practically applied, and that they revisit various...

Making the most of everything. Several people have asked me how Making Life Happen will contribute to my keynotes and workshops … a lot,...

The launch of Making Life Happen.  This book is the one I would have loved to have read in my twenties, picked up again in my forties.

Last year, I was one of the ten alumni invited by Swinburne to chat about our professional journeys and lives on the “Get Hungry”...

As some of you may already know, my latest book, Making Life Happen, will be released on April 11th, and I couldn't be more excited to...

Season greetings! While working at Microsoft within International IT, I learned how the Gates Foundation was ending the poverty...

Our environmental conditions may lead us to accept the preventable. Consider this controlled study of two groups of dogs in the 1960s...

Off-sites - some people love them, others dread them. Regardless, everyone wants them to be a valuable use of time with sensible...

Over a decade ago, I began working with Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1994/6). I wrote Finding a Better Way with one...

There is a great deal of noise we all have to manage. The noise - like social media, world events or subscription television - can easily...