Navigating Uncharted Waters

As professional coaches, we have the privilege to support leaders and teams to navigate uncharted waters. Often, our inquiry reveals concerns such as team members operating more as a group of individuals, than as an intact and aligned team. The...

byLucy Shenouda

I Catch a Glimpse – My Livelihood!

Livelihood. Today’s word is inspired by the picture in this post. I imagined a young man or woman using the bicycle as a means to their livelihood, their life. I see four words. Live, Lively, Hood, and Livelihood. Multiple meanings...

byLucy Shenouda

What’s the way to a team’s heart?

Teams do have a personality and identity of their own. Each member of the team brings their perspectives, voices, actions to bear to impact the entire organization, at all levels. By virtue of being a system in its right, a...

byLucy Shenouda

Curiousity. Are we raising the bar?

The visionaries who raise the bar in their chosen fields are leadership ‘greats’ walking converging paths marked with persistence and resolve. As they do new things, they win, they fail, they learn, they win again, fail again and continue on...

byLucy Shenouda

Sweet Sixteen

We notice leaders and organizations on the edge of change are acting like teenagers! Delightfully rebellious and disruptive one moment, as they separate from an old culture to create and connect to a new way of being. Demurely lost and...

byLucy Shenouda

17th Nov: Leading on the Edge of Change

Whenever there’s change, there’s an edge. There is an edge that puts you in front of the competition, a lead or advantage. And, there is an edge of being at the frontier of something new, a point or state immediately...

byLucy Shenouda

Top Ten Considerations for Leading Across Generations

Baby Boomers (b. 1946-1964) were raised in the era of progress. They shift focus from sacrifice to challenge, unflinchingly questioning the status quo. They value ambition, teamwork and are self-confessed workaholics.

byLucy Shenouda

At the Edge of Change

The world is brought to an edge when there are clashes between worldviews. Industry comes to an edge with the booms and busts of volatile markets. Organizations are called to an edge when they shift from an old identity to...

byLucy Shenouda