Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader – reflections on Herminia Ibarra’s new book

Posted by Liz Gooster
1 Comments

‘How can I know who I am until I see what I do?’ Karl Weick, social psychologist The title of Herminia Ibarra’s new book captures its key message: if you step up and behave like a leader, you will start to think and feel as if you are one. Even if acting like a leader […]

Meet Mairi Bannon, a bridge to success

Posted by Liz Gooster
0 Comments

Softly spoken, with a delightful Scots accent, and effortlessly modest, Mairi Bannon’s understated manner belies the extent of her business achievements and her personal impact. She was part of the start-up phase of specialist recruitment company Strategic Dimensions (SD) 20 years ago, becoming joint leader with Mike Haffenden just four months after he’d got it […]

Gretchen Rubin: Change Your Habits, Change Your Life

Posted by Liz Gooster
0 Comments

Do you make your bed in the morning? If you do, that’s good. If you don’t – yet – starting to do so could make a drastic difference to your clarity of mind. Sounds trivial, and yet in her extensive research into the habits that work for us, and against us, Gretchen Rubin, author of […]

Coaching Days: Bootcamp for your coaching muscles

Posted by Liz Gooster
0 Comments

Recently my Alliance colleague Linda and I did a Coaching Day with one of our regular clients. The day started with warm greetings – smiles, friendly hugs, familiar faces. As usual, it proved to be an intense, tiring, challenging and deeply satisfying day. The format of the day is that six people from the client […]

Putting Her Best Foot Forward: Marty Wikstrom Leadership Profile

Posted by Liz Gooster
1 Comments

Martha – widely known as Marty – Wikstrom has, in anyone’s books, achieved an enormous amount. She is a Founding Partner of Atelier Fund Management LLC and was CEO of Richemont Fashion & Accessories from 2009 until 2013. Starting out as a sales assistant at Nordstrom, she rose to the top to become President of […]

Pan Macmillan comes of age: Anthony Forbes Watson profile

Posted by Liz Gooster
0 Comments

It is a cold winter day and Anthony Forbes Watson is ebullient, his mood as bright as the neon green chairs in his office as he invites me in, solicitously gets me water and mops it up when I spill it. He tells me, with well-deserved relish, that Pan Macmillan publish the current top two […]

Five reasons why photography is like coaching

Posted by Liz Gooster
0 Comments

At first glance, photography and coaching may seem poles apart. But since talking to professional photographer John Cassidy, and experiencing a studio shoot with him, I’ve been reflecting on the parallels between the two. Here are five things that I think great photographers and coaches both do. Liz GoosterI like to describe myself as happily […]

Investing for the future: profile of Alan Rubenstein, CEO of the Pension Protection Fund

Posted by Liz Gooster
0 Comments

“If you’re leading an organisation, you have to gather the best team you can around you, a team that has shared goals and wants to build a successful organisation.” This is the view of Alan Rubenstein, CEO of The Pension Protection Fund (PPF). And it seems to have worked for him! Alan is deservedly proud […]

Flow, Stretch Goals and Cliff Top Paths: How to set yourself appropriate challenges

Posted by Liz Gooster
3 Comments

Flow, the classic book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on how to achieve happiness and enhance the quality of life, argues that nine conditions need to be in place for us to be able to have an enjoyable experience, one that gets us ‘in the zone’ or into a place of ‘flow’. One prerequisite is that the […]

Who will you make peace with? – Interview with Peace One Day’s Jeremy Gilley

Posted by Liz Gooster
0 Comments

Today is the eve of this year’s Peace Day, an international initiative for peace and nonviolence. This year it has a particular emphasis on the Democratic Republic of Congo, with a massive concert in Goma airport, headlined by singer Akon. And today I’d like to share my post about Peace One Day’s Founder, Jeremy Gilley. He […]

Page 2 of 5123 4 5