Culture Pioneer Awards 2022 entries open: Who are you to your people?
Entries have now opened for the 2022 Culture Pioneer Awards.
Are Goals, Success and Happiness Compatible?
We’re at that point in the year where a lot of goals fall by the wayside. We might already have missed at least one of those gym sessions we committed to five weeks ago, dry January might have become moist January and that cake, well it needed eating. (I’ve only got one slice of Christmas […]
7 Ways To Cultivate Your Mindfulness Practice
Whether you are coming to the practice for the first time or an experienced meditator, the fresh energy of the New Year can provide a welcome boost to your mindfulness practice! So if you’re hearing the call of your cushion – inviting you back home – you will enjoy these ten nuggets of practical inspiration […]
Obstacles, Obsessions & Enrichment 2021 in Review
This has been a bit of a confusing year to look back on as it has had so many chapters and quite a number of surprises. My partner Jack and I started the year in lockdown in Highbury Stadium and are ending it in relative freedom in a converted Church in Tufnell Park (more on […]
Winners of Culture Pioneers Awards 2021 announced!
The profession waited with bated breath as the hosts announced the four winners of the Culture Pioneers Awards 2021.
The Algorithm is Sick
I see more clearly than ever that the algorithms that run our social media platforms are sick – they are anxious, depressed, and mentally unstable. More importantly, just as we created them and imbued them with our own immature consciousness, they are now returning the favour, creating us at scale in their own damaged […]
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Cultivate a culture of workplace innovation
What exactly is it that drives businesses forward? In most cases, it’s your people and innovation. A bright spark that is formed, developed and workshopped until becoming a fully tangible concept, eventually generating revenue and new markets – is the nirvana. But both your people and their innovation need to be nurtured, which was complex […]
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
You think, ‘Why would anyone want to see me again in a movie? And I don’t know how to act anyway, so why am I doing this?’ Meryl Streep, 2002 Between working as a Barrister and founding The Conscious Professional I had the privilege of training lay and expert witnesses around the world for […]
Why You Think You Can’t Meditate
If there is one belief that I would like to shake in my lifetime, it is the dominant perception that meditation is difficult. I hear ‘I can’t meditate because’, and then comes a laundry list of reasons, which all sound rather valid and impressive, but have absolutely nothing to do with a human being’s ability […]
Bringing our Whole Selves to Work
I was recently interviewed by Andrea Newton for her Really Useful Conversations podcast where I talked about the increase in hate crime in the UK (with particular focus on the LGBTQ+ community) and the impact this might have on people’s willingness to bring their whole selves to work. Getting involved in the podcast reminded me […]
Using the ‘science of coaching’ to improve employee wellbeing and performance
Using a scientific approach to coaching can have tangible benefits ranging from increased productivity to higher employee retention rates
Hybrid Motivation
Last week, I wrote about the impact the pandemic has had on people’s attitudes towards work/life balance and the knock-on effects on recruitment and retention. There is, I believe, a strong link between the Great Resignation and something we’ve known for a long time about motivation and employee engagement; money lacks the power of intrinsic […]
Inside the Stretch Zone
As a teenager, brought up in a small village in the West Country, the idea of living anywhere else seemed inconceivable. I was very sure that I’d always live close, as generations of my family had. The problem was I was quite talented academically and faced a general expectation that I would go to university; […]
Crediting Your Emotional Bank
One of the more surprising discoveries when we moved to France was that almost no-one here has a credit card. Many banks don’t even offer them, except in the form of a deferred debit card (where the full balance is cleared every month). It feels like the attitude to personal debt here is very different, […]
Conscious Leadership in 2021
The world is crying out for Conscious Leaders who are aware, awake, and connected as they rise to the challenges of our times. For millennia, human beings have embarked on journeys of self-discovery, pursuing knowledge, power, health, wealth, purpose, happiness and excellence. The human drive to look outwards, go further, run faster and build taller […]
The 9-5 Office – Why I’m Backing the Alternative
The battle has commenced between those advocating more remote working after the pandemic and those wanting people to return to the office. Take this recent article on the BBC news website, for example, in which Paul Swinney, spokesperson for Centre for Cities, says he is “quite hopeful that we will see people return five days […]
Interview with Brigstowe: creating a ‘safe space’ for employees living with HIV
How organisations can create a ‘safe space’ for employees living with HIV.
Employee Wellbeing & Its Connection to Motivation
Old-fashioned workplace mindsets can sometimes encourage employees to push themselves as a means of showing that they’re working hard. In this perception, factors like skipping lunch, sleeping less and allowing workers to fully immerse themselves into their work proves that they’re more dedicated to their job role. However, in an age governed by the COVID-19 […]
21 Years of Resilience
A few customers have reminded me that Glasstap is now 21 years old! Which makes me think I should be feeling grown up, or something. I’m not, but it has encouraged me reflect on a key skill that I’ve perhaps not always recognised I possess; that of resilience. We’ve probably all doubted our resilience at […]
