Last Saturday night, I lay on my sofa, weeping. I was watching the Strictly final, and comedian Chris McCausland and his partner Dianne Buswell were dancing a waltz to ‘You’ll never walk alone’. I’d shed a tear when they first did the routine, but this was full-on snotty snuffling. I was deeply moved by pretty […]
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In the autumn of 2019, I was ‘reckoning’ with myself as I approached the threshold of my 60th birthday. It seemed to be a significant time, calling for new rhythms in the later stages of a working life. This led me to reappraise my identity and work, using the autumn season and the metaphor of
In my previous post, I wrote about my journey into dedicated followership of both Leadership Embodiment (LE) practices and their founder, Wendy Palmer. Nailing my colours to a mast doesn’t come easily to me – yet of all the leadership resources I’ve come across in 25 years of executive coaching, I’ve found LE to be
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The morning after storm Corrie passed through, my neighbour went out for a run to examine the impact. Her verdict? Carnage. She’d used a similarly potent word after storm Arwen but on my usual walks after that weather event, I’d only been slightly hampered by occasionally having to clamber over or duck under a fallen