Failure Recently, I failed at something. And it wasn’t a small, everyday kind of mistake. It was something important to me, something I believed in, invested in, and worked hard for. When it didn’t go the way I expected, it hit me like a jolt. I have quite a history...
How We Change: The Truth About Transformation I’m in the business of change, professionally and personally. My entire career has been about supporting people through change in the toughest of circumstances. And over the last decade or so, I’ve worked just as...
The Quiet Power of Compassion in Difficult Work I’ve recently started working with someone who isn’t quite ready to take responsibility for some of the harmful behaviour they’ve shown. It’s the kind of situation that can be difficult to sit with—especially when...
The Intuition Paradox I recently attended some empirically-focused training that implied intuition isn’t worth very much. This wasn’t surprising; I’ve spent most of my career working in the criminal justice system, which relies heavily on actuarial...
I’ve recently taken a risk in signing up for some professional development which feels like a big financial investment. In a world that often rewards the safe path, my relationship with risk has been complicated and evolving. What began as recklessness developed out...
We all have them – those deeply ingrained survival strategies that kick in when life becomes overwhelming. Mine? I emotionally shut down and push through, head down, soldiering on. It’s so automatic that I often don’t even realise I’m doing it. This...
