Guest Lecture at Uni
“I just wanted to let you know that I really loved your presentation!” This was one of the messages I received in my LinkedIn inbox after having taught a guest lecture at the Hogeschool Utrecht University. Such a privilege for me to be one of the guest lecturers, alongside Ellen Tolsma of Rabobank, invited by […]
Money-Back Guarantee
This past week I had the opportunity to speak at a business leaders event in Deventer, The Netherlands. This wasn’t just any type of leadership event. I had the immense honour to be the only male, and only Caucasian speaker at the event. We all got to hear from one female African powerhouse after another. […]
Rare Leadership – Part 3 of 3
“Let’s just be friends!” No, it’s not our anniversary, and no, those aren’t words I was told by anyone personally – at least not recently. Why the wedding cake? Keep reading… Hallmark Christmas movie season is upon us, and soon enough someone will have to utter those words in a painfully anticlimactic scene by a […]
Rare Leadership – Part 2 of 3
Picture a runner in the desert, all by herself. Classic desert, just sand, for as far as the eye can see. Slowly the scene moves from wide horizons to up close with the runner. Wait, is that a prosthetic leg? In the meantime it’s the deep voice of Idris Elba telling you that the runner […]
Rare Leadership – Part 1 of 3
Rare Leadership. Last week I made a promise that I would be sharing a few more key insights from this remarkable book. My team knows that it’s been a refreshing leadership book that I can’t stop talking about. It’s helped find more language to a few key values that are very important in our organisation. […]
Get Muddy
Food, games, dirty feet and clean slates. This weekend we took our whole team on a retreat in the mountains. It was cold. We got muddy. We laughed. We cried. Things got real. We shared stories about the past 5 years and how it has led us to the place we have arrived today. And […]
Measure of Success
It’s not every day you get to talk to the parents of people you’re hiring or interviewing for job openings. We believe so strongly in the phrase ‘people over projects,’ that we always make it a priority to get on the phone with friends, previous leaders, colleagues or family members of our new team members. […]
How are we doing, Europe?
We’re not doing so great in Europe. Well, that’s according to the highly respected Jon Clifton and his buddies over at Gallup. “It’s a great place to live, but a terrible place to work.” This has long been said about Spain, but is it true of all of Europe? Jon Clifton at Twitter.com If you’ve […]