Empathy and sympathy are often grouped together, but they are very different, as Brené Brown outlines in this short yet powerful video....

"The moment you arrived in the world, you were sentenced to life. Maybe you'll live fast, die young. Or love slow, die old. Your life is...

Do we really not know how to do change in universities? Rupert Taylor, expert change-enabler and guest speaker at the Association of...

A powerful way to consider where you focus your time and attention and the impact of that choice is captured in this short video "the jar...

Many of us are struggling with an intensely critical inner voice, one who relentlessly punishes us for failing to live up to an...

Virtual meetings are here to stay. We must address their challenges to ensure discussions with colleagues remain productive and valuable....

Not all lockdown experiences have been equal. In a blog for the Association of Heads of University Administration (AHUA) last month, my...

The drive to always please other may sound like a worthy cause, but it’s a problematic pattern of behaviour for both the pleaser and...

We experience ‘stuckness’ with an issue where two opposing forces are at play; a strong desire to move forward struggles with an equally...

I’m sure there’s a quote out there that talks about wisdom being the realisation that the more you know, the more you realise you don’t...

Of the much written about leadership and how to “get good at it”, the often challenging and sometimes thorny issue of personal presence...

"Whatever we think about we bring about." Although cynical at first when reading Rhonda Byrne's The Secret about the law of attraction,...

I’m going to confess something. Phrases like “seeing into being” and reference to “the universe” still make me a little uncomfortable....

As we continue to deal with the uncertainty of a global pandemic, the proliferation of advice and guidance about how to combat...

Like many of us (myself included!) Dr Jud Brewer is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to...

This may sound unnecessarily melodramatic, but hearing the Danish philosopher and psychologist Svend Brinkmann talk about liquid...

I was introduced to the extraordinary life of firefighter, psychologist and writer Sabrina Cohen-Hatton through her desert island disks!...

The key philosophy underpinning Kim Scott's simple yet pragmatic concept of Radical Candor is care personally while challenging directly....

Once upon another time Michael Brody-Waite wanted to do nothing but drugs. He got kicked out of school, fired from his job and booted out...

Trust is the foundation for everything we do. But what do we do when it's broken? In her popular TED Talk from 2018 (below), Harvard...