CEO Advisory

Increasingly, boards are recognizing that leadership accountability is a critical issue they need to be considering. Many of the directors I speak with realize that the organizations they serve have leadership accountability gaps. The gaps may be with the executive team or leaders at other levels of the organization. At...

Training people swiftly with business values is becoming more important towards overall success. Studies from Nielsen and Engage for good highlight companies’ values and social responsibility are a core consideration for both customers and employees: especially millennials (over 70%) who use it amongst criteria when electing who to work for....

“Somebody once told me the definition of hell: On my last day on this earth, the person who I became will meet the person I could have become, and those two people are total strangers. But somebody also once told me the definition of heaven: On my last day on...

Surely, you must have heard about creative directors in the fashion industry. Let me tell you this, they are inseparable to the industry. But, do you know what they do? To put it in simple words, a creative director provides a vision to the brand or project he is a...

The pandemic has given us plenty of reasons to complain. Restrictions, isolation, panic buying, general distress with all the uncertainty. With quick decisions being made about work arrangements, grumbles have rumbled. The shift to work from home directives or restricted work environments has opened the door to those who would...

Counselling college students is one of the most mentally tedious jobs in existence. For a counsellor, it often becomes challenging to persuade students to take up certain tasks or follow a certain direction because they are often reactive to suggestions. Moreover, college students view things differently, and it takes patience...

Most CEO’s look at profits on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.  However, profits are not the only critical element to survival.  Profitable companies can go bankrupt: If more than 50% of your revenues come from one client or one industry, and that client or industry shuts down, you have...

Influence is a skill. Leaders who are competent in the art of influence can easily gather support from others and are able to lead a group that is engaged, mobilised, and ready to execute. Senior leaders have leverage due to their rank in the organisation. However, rank alone is not...

When you fail in life, people often ignore you. Some people show their true colors by ridiculing, insulting, and humiliating you. Don’t waste your precious time by reacting to them. Understand their inner intentions. Work hard to establish and excel. When you achieve success, they approach you with a list...

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  Do the thing you think you cannot do.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt Leaders including Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Fidel Castro, and John F Kennedy had insecurities. Leaders are ordinary individuals with...