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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...

Karen
Jul 12, 20242 min read
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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...

Karen
Jun 29, 20242 min read
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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...

Karen
Jun 29, 20245 min read
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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...

Karen
Jun 9, 20243 min read
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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,...

Karen
Jun 9, 20244 min read
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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....

Karen
Jun 9, 20243 min read
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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...

Karen
May 30, 20243 min read
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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...

Karen
May 22, 20243 min read
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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...

Karen
May 20, 20244 min read
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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...

Karen
May 13, 20242 min read
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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...

Karen
May 7, 20242 min read
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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...

Karen
Apr 29, 20243 min read
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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...

Karen
Apr 23, 20243 min read
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Unapologetically Female: Embracing Authentic Leadership
Historically, any discussion about empowering women leaders has a prevailing notion that women need to adopt traditionally masculine...

Karen
Apr 9, 20243 min read
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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...

Karen
Mar 28, 20243 min read
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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,...

Karen
Feb 18, 20243 min read
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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...

Karen
Feb 17, 20243 min read
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Creating Change At Work: recruiting amazing people
A life of recruitment With 25 years of experience, recruitment is in my blood. 13 years agency side, 12 years after that in business...

Karen
Feb 13, 20243 min read
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What I Wish I'd Known: how to overcome self-doubt
Blaggers and preparers In my experience there are two kinds of people in life: those who can sleep through their alarm, get up late, roll...

Karen
Jan 30, 20243 min read
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Creating Lasting Life Change: how to manage anxiety
Me and anxiety I suffered from chronic anxiety for many years of my life and I became so used to it that it almost became my natural...

Karen
Jan 24, 20244 min read
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