Are you stuck in high-stakes conversations? High-stakes situations and conversations include any time the stress levels go up for you because of the topic on the table or the conversational dynamic. Maybe you and your team feel like you’re butting heads and aren’t making headway. Perhaps there’s an underlying sense...

With a value of $200 billion, ByteDance, the Chinese tech which owns TikTok, is officially the most valuable unicorn in the world, according to The CEOWORLD magazine’s Top 500 Unicorn Startups 2023. What is a unicorn company? A ‘unicorn’ is a term used in the business world to describe a...

The world we live in is moving at an extraordinary speed, in an almost frenetic way. Living at these rhythms is not easy and requires everyone adaption to this very dynamic context, with all the related difficulties. This affects the whole society and consequently every single person and their lifestyle....

Mid-level leaders are increasingly becoming recognised as the ‘power centre’ of organisational culture and performance.  As organisations become faster and more complex, it is inevitable that responsibility be devolved.  Put simply, decisions need to be made closer to the action, which means middle managers need to be empowered to make...

As the number of women in leadership and C-suite management positions incrementally grow, long-standing barriers are withholding them from reaching gender parity with their male peers in a number of sectors especially in the pharmaceutical sector.  The landscape of women in leadership is changing, and according to more recent sources,...

With the business landscape everchanging, organizations will need to anticipate the future of their business models against the backdrop of developing consumer trends and stakeholder interest.  In recent years, Environmental, Sustainability, and Governance (ESG) efforts have ensured organizations and investors can support a more carbon-neutral or carbon-free future.  With changing...

When leaders talk about the future, when we plan for how our companies will evolve and how we will lead them into these next stages of being, there’s something we should remember: The future is not decades down the road or light years away. It is not waiting to be decrypted,...

With 74% of US companies transitioning to a permanent hybrid work model, leaders are turning their attention to measuring the success of their return to office and hybrid work model. That’s because there’s a single traditional office-centric model of M-F 9-5 in the office, but many ways to do hybrid...

The customer experience (CX) is the grand sum of all interactions between a company and its customers. It’s the lasting impression that a business leaves on its patrons, and it’s one of the most important elements when it comes to creating long-term relationships with customers. If companies want to make...