Coaching Days: Bootcamp for your coaching muscles

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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

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“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

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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

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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 […]

Bags of Potential at Barnardo’s

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The most vivid memory I will carry with me from our Alliance day at Barnardo’s* is the look of mingled surprise and delight on one of the winners’ faces when first place in ‘The Apprentice’-style competition was announced. Ruth, Juan and I had spent the day with six young people and in our view, all […]

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A 2.4 mile swim, 112 miles on a bike, then a marathon run of 26.2 miles. This is what it takes to complete an Ironman challenge. To win one it takes someone like Chrissie Wellington: driven, passionate, focused, super-fit. At the second of the Meyler Campbell Workshops on Ultra High Performing Women, we had the […]

Eight Steps to an Effective ‘Strategy Offsite Day’ – Even if you work for yourself!

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While corporate away days are commonplace, having an individual ‘strategy offsite’ day might sound like a bit of an odd thing to do. When I headed off recently to the calm cobbled streets of Rye and the wind-scoured dunes of Camber Sands, my reasons were to give myself time to think and to review where […]

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