Coaching

I offer talks and workshops on the Porty Pals of Palestine twinning journey, using craftivism, story, and shared making. Through films, conversation, and spiritual tent‑peg making, audiences explore ethical leadership, cross‑cultural governance, and how communities move from grief to sustained, peaceful action together with dignity, care, and long‑term solidarity.

In my experience, there is a significant difference between leading an organisation and leading a leadership team well. This case study shows how deep, system‑psychodynamic team coaching enabled a senior leadership team to work with complexity, share authority, reduce isolation, and lead ambitious cultural and strategic change with greater integrity and impact.

Hybrid meetings are still being done badly — not because the technology isn’t there, but because the imagination hasn’t caught up. This article argues that truly inclusive hybrid meetings, designed to work for disabled colleagues and remote participants, are not a compromise but a route to better leadership, better decisions, and better use of everyone’s intelligence.

Are your staff, or partners heading towards burn out? Are you seeing significant signs of 'Strain Zone' fatigue building up? In this blog i share the insights about being Strategic about your Time and Energy.

Are you leading change well? In these changing times it can be tricky to keep perspective on all the changing factors affecting our work. In this short article i explain the core of change management. This is a good building block for then more complex courses and supervision work i do about leading from the emerging future.

I’ve been using Action Learning for more than 20 years – it’s a powerful and effective approach that knits together the countless individual actions across a group (or groups) into one vast, collaborative effort: harnessing the power of peers to bring about profound change.

Right now most organisations are thinking ‘What kit do we need in the rooms’. Our tips in this article address questions about audio, visual connection, room layout,, cables and how humans need to connect in all meetings.

This short article gives you practical mapping of the main essential skills that you need to try and make sure you recruit and keep active in your Board. It is part of my series of articles about de-mystifying being part of Boards, whether that is as Charity Trustees, Company Non-Executive and Executive Directors, or Public Appointees.

This article gives practical advice on how to run blended meeting environments well, where some people are face to face, and others are joining remotely. This is based on pilots and research me and my associates have been doing in the voluntary and the government sector during 2021.

Simplifying work and life is an essential skill, especially as we move through these times of change. This blog describes why and gives examples of businesses I have helped found, that show multiple practical insights about these values-in-action. Traits of ethical leadership include the ability to Simplify and being straightforward.

As we come through the post-crisis phase after the pandemic, I am working with organisations and different professions who are exhibiting signs of burn out, so in this blog I reflect on ‘Perfection’ and suggest ways of practicing around it.

This blog reflects on my recent work, supporting ethical leadership structures in Scotland, which goes together with the need to pause, breath and consider sustainability in all our working lives as we move towards COP 26.