The 3am Wake-Up Call: A Leader's Silent Struggle
If you're a leader in learning delivery or operations, you’ve probably experienced it: the 3am wake-up call. No, not from your alarm, but...
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Karen
- Aug 19
- 3 min
How Work-Related Stress Impacts Your Personal Relationships and What You Can Do About It
As a life coach specialising in helping learning delivery leaders find balance, I’ve seen firsthand how work-related stress can seep into...
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Karen
- Jul 18
- 4 min
Working Smarter: Streamlining Work Processes to Reclaim Time for Life
Working Smarter: Streamlining Work Processes to Reclaim Time for Life Having worked in client delivery leadership roles for many years,...
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Karen
- Jul 12
- 2 min
Discovering Your Core Values: The Key to a Fulfilled Life
Understanding your core values is crucial for living a fulfilling and authentic life. Your values are the guiding principles that shape...
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Karen
- Jun 29
- 2 min
Reassessing Your Life Priorities: A Guide for Busy Operations Leaders
As an operations leader, your job is demanding. Work often overshadows other important aspects of life. To achieve true balance and...
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Karen
- Jun 29
- 5 min
The Dark Side of the Pursuit of Perfectionism and How to Create More Balance (from a Recovering Perfectionist)
The Pursuit of Flawlessness As a ‘Recovering Perfectionist’, I know that my perfectionist tendencies are something that I need to work on...
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Karen
- Jun 9
- 3 min
Finding Joy in Life While Feeling Stressed About Work
I spend many years, decades in fact, dealing with chronic stress and anxiety as my familiar ‘friends’. Life can often feel like a...
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Karen
- Jun 9
- 4 min
The Hidden Costs of Overworking: a call to reassess your life balance
From experience I know that as an operations leader, the demands of your role can be all-consuming. The relentless pursuit of efficiency,...
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Karen
- Jun 9
- 3 min
Letting Go: Are you letting your leadership control ruin your life?
Leadership is often synonymous with control. Many leaders feel the need to maintain a tight grip on their teams, projects, and outcomes....
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Karen
- May 30
- 3 min
Discovering Your Authentic Self: a journey to true fulfilment
In a world that often pressures us to conform to various societal norms and expectations, discovering and embracing your authentic self...
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Karen
- May 22
- 3 min
What I Wish I'd Known: how to make scary big change
My life change: Two years ago I made the decision to make big changes, as I wasn’t happy with the way I was living my life. In the past...
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Karen
- May 20
- 4 min
Six ESSENTIAL skills to be a successful leader in today’s world
As we all know, the world is ever changing and it takes a different kind of person and approach to be a successful leader today than it...
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Karen
- May 13
- 2 min
Beyond Buzzwords: Why true empathy in leadership is rare
Beyond Buzzwords: Why True Empathy in Leadership is Rare Empathy is routinely regarded as an essential leadership quality, yet few really...
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Karen
- May 7
- 2 min
Embracing Vulnerability: The Power of Not Knowing
How easy do you find it to say ‘I don’t know’? I'll confess - I was once the typical 'control freak' manager. I believed my role required...
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Karen
- Apr 29
- 3 min
The Big Picture: How to inspire your team to see beyond the horizon
The Big Picture: How to inspire your team to see beyond the horizon You’re probably tired of reading that as a leader, you need to be...
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Karen
- Apr 23
- 3 min
Self-Coaching: unlock your potential with this ten-minute technique
Ever felt stuck in a loop of repetitive negative thoughts or unproductive behaviour? At times it’s useful to seek external support and...
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Karen
- Apr 9
- 3 min
Unapologetically Female: Embracing Authentic Leadership
Historically, any discussion about empowering women leaders has a prevailing notion that women need to adopt traditionally masculine...
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Karen
- Mar 28
- 3 min
Step Up: How to Overcome Fear and Embrace Boldness in Business
When faced with a challenging decision, do you rise to the occasion, trusting in your ability to make a significant and resounding...
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Karen
- Feb 18
- 3 min
Creating Lasting Life Change: how to find your dream job
Lifetime recruiter Recruitment is a business passion of mine. I started my career in agency recruitment and stayed in it for 13 years,...
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Karen
- Feb 17
- 3 min
Creating Healthier Habits: relieving anxiety through EFT
What is it? A mind-body therapy that draws on the Chinese medicine of acupuncture Described as acupuncture without the needles It...
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