3 min read
Organisational Courage: Create Workplaces Where People Want to Stay
As a Leadership Development Coach, I have so many conversations with people who are heartbroken—not because they want...
2 min read
Cracking the Code for True Equity
We love just about everything that Malcolm Gladwell has written but during this, the week of International Women’s Day...
1 min read
Humans need to believe they belong to something
Mum seldom comes to the footy (“I can’t read the stupid scoreboard!”) but when she does, her love of being a part of...
1 min read
The Essential Elements of Community
I recently supported Christopher Brown and Faith Halliday of the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue, in the delivery of...
1 min read
Humility is a Super Power
In a recent bit of sport commentary, I heard a broadcaster say of a player “from up here in the box I always thought...
1 min read
Loyalty must go both ways
I remember a line in an old war movie. A wise old Colonel is telling a young officer “on the battlefield you represent...
1 min read
Trust, Loyalty and Service
My great-grandfather Edwin (Ted) Leane was one of The Fighting Leanes of Prospect – once called the “most famous family...
1 min read
Sorry Sooty, my bad
Some years ago I was in charge of a small section of Navy people. There was me, a couple of other slightly more junior...
1 min read
Leadership, Culture and Values
As an active Navy reservist, I watched with interest late in 2020 as the Department of Defence took seven sets of...
