"PwC Australia under fire for using confidential government information to advise clients, Victorian government under fire for a $1.5 billion contract awarded without tender, Queensland university under fire for mishandling sexual assault allegations, Australian Defence Force under fire for a...

It’s not all gloom! The COVID-19 global crisis also provides OPPORTUNITIES.   After all, we can look at the situation as a ‘social experiment’ that forced us all to think and work differently. And there is a lot to learn from the past three months. Here are a couple of thoughts about what...

When I started writing this article, I referred to the Post-COVID era. But now it seems that COVID is here to stay for at least one more year and become the ‘new normal’. Our generation (including our leaders) has never encountered such levels of combined...

The world has changed! The pandemic has transformed the way we work and think. The word uncertainty has now gained a different meaning. This means survival and growth depend on changing the way we lead our teams.  Every company, even organisations that grew during the pandemic, must implement in...

The Coronavirus (CODVID-19) will influence the global economy and most certainly have a significant negative effect on small to medium businesses; Artificial Intelligence will take our jobs; This summers’ fires are just the beginning… From the minute we wake up in the morning, we are...

The following story happens more often than you think!  During a workshop I conducted to teams from a range of corporates, many of the participants described their corporate culture as toxic, inefficient, with silos and lack of collaboration and some even portrayed the culture as...

I recently spoke with investors who were worried about their investment since the CEO of the company hasn’t taken any leave for a few years. They asked me if I can coach the CEO. Coaching is a great tool. It can do wonders when people are aware they need to...

The pandemic has placed all organisations in uncertainty. The key to success is changing and adapting, which cannot be achieved without proactively leading the organisational. Yes, even when employees are working from home, there is...

The royal commission revealed unethical practices and behaviours in the financial sector that are associated with the culture of the specific organisations. These practices are indeed part of the organisational culture, but culture should not be blamed. Culture is not an entity, nor an...

When I ask leaders growing companies about their challenges, getting the right people in the right time is always on top of their list. However, unfortunately, most of them are repeating the same mistake when recruiting new employees: they look at the recruitment process as...

Over the past few years, we have seen a strong trend of investors taking remuneration very seriously, some losing patience and vocally voting against executive pay schemes (“strikes”). There are good reasons as to why we got here. However, while changing history is impossible, I would like to...

Have you ever given a thought to what is going inside the mind of leaders when they make significant decisions that affect our lives? If the answer to this question is ‘no’, then you may want to start thinking about it. Because the way our brain operates affects the decision making of even the...