I've seen that successful entrepreneurs and leaders are those who can learn to lead themselves and others effectively through change.

However during critical times of change, the leaders who can get too reliant on other people's opinions and external conditions outside of their control may fall into a trap of judging themselves and others to the point where it affects their ability to make effective decisions at the right time.

The Flow State was first coined by Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975. He referred to it as a mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

It’s not just a state of focus, but one that combines brain activity and positive emotions together. A state of timelessness, happiness, clarity, focus and intrinsic motivation.

In this mental state of flow, it is the only time the brain will produce all 5 of our so-called feel-good hormones together.

Authentic leadership is a leadership style that emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself and leading with honesty, transparency, and integrity. Ultimately how these leaders treat themselves and other people matters.

Building trust is a critical skill that good leaders need to be able to develop to enable their teams to achieve success, which isn’t always easy during growth or constant change and challenges. But it’s trust that enables teams to build resilience and overcome resistance to change.

Yay - we've made it to the end of a pretty adventurous, successful, and at the same time, difficult and exhausting year.

I've been through my own moments of stress, self-doubt, and feelings of embarrassment. 

You know, the kind of thing I help other leaders with in confidence, yet I have plenty of moments where those struggles are real for me!

Does admitting I have weaknesses make me worry that others may think less of me? No. But it used to.

We’ve all lost control of our emotional responses before through an overreaction of some kind. For some of us, that reaction may have happened today, for some of us it may have been this week or month… and for others, it may have been at some point in the last year or two.

Not necessarily the designer ones… but the ones you form your identity with the way you label yourself and also others?

For example: I'm a woman, I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a mother, I'm a wife, I'm a sister and a daughter.

They're a male, they're white or black, they're a leader, they are a parent and a husband. 

There's no harm done so far, right? Assuming we are labelling here with good intentions, these labels are easy to accept because it's a set way of how a person is in those situations or the role they take on.

But what about the labels we give ourselves due to our previous negative habits and behaviours which we then accept as a part of our identity? And in a way that holds us back?

Research by Zenger Folkman shows that the more resilient leaders are usually the more effective ones at navigating key stakeholder relationships for achieving success.

Living in uncertain times has reminded us that dealing with change and adopting a growth mindset is becoming a consistent requirement for the new or junior employee as much as it is for existing leaders in order to thrive in the workplace.

We all find successful people or Leaders we admire. People who inspire us and motivate us to want to become better human beings. Leaders we can learn from and emulate. I refer to leaders in every sense: teachers, parents, coaches, line managers, famous celebrities, sports people, world leaders, teammates, friends, and more.

"I don't know".

I hear the words I don’t often from the Entrepreneurs and Leaders I work with.

Recessions bring fear and uncertainty of the unknown for business leaders, but unlike a pandemic, there is also more warning for business owners to rethink their strategies and plan ahead. And for employees to re-evaluate their options for growth as we all get prepared to ride through an economic slump.

When I bought a gratitude journal for a successful entrepreneur I was coaching, whilst he appreciated the gesture it was no secret that the journal didn’t see the light of day for most of the year we spent working together.  And I get it. I’m also guilty of keeping a gratitude journal that collected dust after a few months of use.

How frequently do you experience sales messages that are totally off the mark? Talking at you, rather than to you?

A Whitepaper on the Perceptions and Challenges of Leadership Success in the Technology Industry

Some people are surprised to hear that successful leaders, the ones who appear to “have it all”, also have a need to challenge and navigate their deepest fears to create their next level of personal and professional growth.

From the hundreds of high-performing leaders I’ve coached, what is clear is that for leaders to create a successful step up to the next level, it’s their conscious and unconscious fears, that they need to get past to achieve the fulfilment and success they deeply desire.

In this podcast Reema talks to Jeff Watkins, Chief of Technology at a growing UK based digital agency called AND Digital.