It’s interesting how we focus on moving ever upwards on the corporate ladder. We very often fail to stop to think whether this is something...

One can argue that there never has been a good time to be a bad employer, but history would tell you something different.  In times where jobs...

My first leadership moment was when I was promoted into my first management role. It was helpfully announced in the middle of a meeting about...

I coach several ambitious, driven, people and there are certain questions that come round again and again. One of them appears in many...

Great thought from Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman – the creators of Extraordinary Leader – to my mind one of the best assessment tools...

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Re-organising again?  Here are 6 ways to make it a success

Technologies and markets...

There are several themes that run through my mentoring work but one of the most common is “How do I get an NED role?”.

Senior leaders...

I was talking the other day to a client who is nearing the successful end of a very large and complex project, one that had a high chance of...

How many of us have rummaged around in the back of the fridge, found some food slightly curled at the edges, looked at the “use by”...

Every conversation about “work/life balance leaves me annoyed because it seems to totally miss the point.  What is this mysterious thing...

When we set up Defy Expectations we had a very clear vision of leadership.  Leadership was not something confined to the few, to those who...

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Many companies now are looking at how they move people into the next phase of work and the answer is not an easy one because there are so many...