What’s it all about?

The business world is becoming more complex, and leaders are finding it harder to cope. Research shows:

• 70% of leaders regularly report they are unable to be fully attentive and focused in meetings
• 47% is the average amount of time spent being distracted and mind-wandering
• 2% of leaders regularly make time to enhance personal productivity & development
• 95% of the time leaders are making unconscious decisions out of awareness

No matter how resilient, leaders are experiencing mental stress and operating on autopilot for much of their working day.  This can cause them to be reactive, controlling, insensitive, and judgmental, driven by past habits, psychological patterns, and unconscious bias.  All of which is affecting their impact and performance potentially creating a vicious circle of burnout, disengagement, increased sick days and strained relationships.

Mindfulness ‘with wisdom’ is the movement from unconscious autopilot to conscious awareness with clear and present insight.

Awareness improves connection, empathy, understanding, belonging and community.  All of which creates better leadership and better results.  After all, happy people, means happy returns.

This interactive talk enables companies and their leaders to practice both in an enthusiastic and integrated way.

Personal & business benefits:

• Supercharge your mental and personal wellbeing
• Improve your coping skills
• Reduce anxiety and stress
• Sharpen your focus
• Increase your confidence and self esteem
• Maintain calm when under pressure
• Better problem solving
• Be more effective and productive in your role
• Conscious decision making
• Handle difficult conversations better
• Improve your ability to work under pressure when deadlines and targets are approaching
• Collaborative relationships with colleagues

What’s it all about?

We all experience and interact with the world in different ways. We all have different strengths, talents, capabilities, and struggles.  There is no right way to be.  Our differences are not deficits.  They are the gifts of being human.

Unfortunately, many people, employers and companies are missing out on very special relationships and exceptional talent because of their own unconscious biases, and lack of understanding around neurodiversity.  Words like neurological differences, disorders, disability, minorities, feed our biases causing us to lose sight of the person in front of us.   The danger is that our ignorance will lead to further exclusion, inequality, stigma, and discrimination, rather enabling us to see the genius that can help improve the world in which we all live.

With 1 in 8 people being neurodivergent, there is an opportunity to champion and welcome their talents into the workplace. 

This interactive talk seeks to improve your knowledge about neurodiversity, close the gap between perception and reality and share steps needed to foster an environment that nurtures and enables all talent to thrive.

Business benefits:

• Learn the best ways to embrace neurodiversity
• Create a more inclusive culture and workforce that allows all talent to thrive
• Introduce new ways to solve problems
• Heighten creative thinking
• Benefit from higher levels of employee concentration, and increase productivity by up to 140%
• Improve innovation and out of the box thinking
• Increase efficiency, reduction in work errors, and higher levels of accuracy
• Facilitate open and honest communication across all levels in your workplace
• Bring new ideas and new perspectives to your business

What’s it all about?

Does your body respond like you are allergic to everything?

The phrase ‘you are what you eat’ has been meandering its way into the English language since 1826, when French lawyer Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote ‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.’ 

So, what are you…? Are you happy? Are you sad? How are your energy levels? Are you tired all the time? How are your concentration levels and mindset? How are your relationships? How is your performance – good, bad, average?  

Unhealthy food creates an unhealthy gut which poisons your body, affecting your mindset, your mood, the way you think, and the way you feel, the way you behave, your relationship with yourself, your relationships with others, your levels of enjoyment and your performance.   

In this interactive talk, discover how to heal your body, rejuvenate your mind, energise your performance, and optimise your mental and personal wellbeing. 

Personal & business benefits:

• Learn how to listen to your body’s needs to optimise your chemistry for peak performance
• Understand how, why and where you are haemorrhaging energy
• Learn how to renew your energy and strengthen your immune system
• Learn how to manage your energy when there is increasing demand for your time and attention
• Understand how your chemistry masks or reveals your biases, blinds spots and self-sabotaging behaviour
• Understand how your chemistry – good and bad – affects others and your relationships with them
• Understand how your chemistry and energy affects your abilities as a leader
• Discover how to minimise negativity and ease your stress levels
• Improve your sleep and memory

What’s it all about?

Research shows that kindness cascades and spreads through others, with every act having the potential to triple its impact spreading positive emotions, supporting mental health, improving self-esteem, wellbeing, and prosocial behaviour. Therefore, every kindness act matters, but does the ‘act’ itself need to be genuine?  Or can it be fake?  Is there a difference and does it really matter?

When leaders are under pressure, deadlines are approaching, stakes are high, and they need their team to perform they often use ‘fake’ kindness to appease or placate others, to persuade and to get people on board.  Even though their intentions are good, there are negative side effects.

‘Fake’ kindness is often received in the same way as lying.  Even the smallest ‘white lie’ can heighten stress, threaten self-worth, create insecurity, lower self-esteem, erode trust, and deteriorate relationships.  In business it is seen and received as insincere, suspicious, dishonest, and even unkind.

This interactive talk will show you how to recognise the difference between genuine and fake acts of kindness. Then understand the ripple effects on your leadership style, your performance, your team, your results, when your kindness is genuine or fake, conditional, or unconditional.

Personal & business benefits:

• How to build a culture of kindness and inclusion
• Understand why kindness is specifically important for middle and senior managers
• Reduce negativity
• Improve trust between managers and workers
• Create a welcoming space for people to collaborate on ideas, innovate and feel comfortable sharing their thoughts
• Improve your ability to show kindness, empathy and compassion towards yourself and others
• Create an environment which leads to good mental health habits for all
• Clear and honest communication without fear of repercussion
• A happier, and more productive workforce
• Enhanced creativity that drives higher customer satisfaction