Supporting others through challenging times isn’t just about solving their problems. It’s about the presence to acknowledge their hardships, stand in them and face whatever is to come, together.

Give and take is fundamental to any human relationship over time. Without clear intentions we can be left in-tension feeling like we’re against each other, but with them we can align our greater aims to grow, together…

I love writing, speaking and running workshops with leadership teams… but do you know what I love the most? Seeing the impact of our work. Especially engaging with people who really take it to heart and use it to create an inflection point of change in their work, relationships and lives.

Fear is winning as record numbers of people worldwide believe the future will only be worse than today. Economic uncertainty, global instability, AI disruption and rapid change everywhere we turn is leaving people feeling scared, powerless and lost. Unaddressed, it can’t help but stall our personal progress and business growth. And while moving away from those fears and toward growth might seem like a linear path leading to similar outcomes, they actually diverge towards fundamentally different places.

Reasons may be valid. But they don’t have to be an excuse for why we don’t have the results we want. Of course there are always reasons why things are the way they are, but it’s actually not the reasons that matter alone. It’s our response to them. Only once we take the wheel back from circumstances driving us can we steer towards our real goals.