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Resources, Articles, and blogs on career and leadership 

The Best CEOs Win on Habit, Not Capability

On paper, moving from MD to CEO looks like a natural progression. You’ve delivered results, you understand how to run a business, and you’ve built credibility. But in reality, it’s a very different job. Not just bigger, but different. Here are my reflections as a...

Turning Conflict Into Opportunity

Conflict is one of the most predictable,  and most poorly handled, leadership challenges in senior roles. The higher you progress, the more frequently you are required to navigate competing priorities, strong personalities, organisational politics and emotionally...

Making Coaching a Leadership Habit

Leaders love coaching when they learn it. They leave workshops energised, confident, equipped. But a month later? The pressure kicks in… time disappears… performance conversations can revert to directing and telling… and coaching becomes a nice-to-have, not a...

Head of Trade Operations – Lloyds Banking Group

I've worked with Steph for 4 years and in that time she's supported me through 3 role changes. She's given me the clarity to make strategic decisions and the confidence to believe in myself. As I've gone through the change curve Steph has proved to be an invaluable...

Knowing Your Values

Knowing Your Values

Values are a guiding compass for making both organisational and career decisions. Here are my practical tips in this short vlog on LinkedIn.

How To Lead The Way To Recovery

How To Lead The Way To Recovery

Pressure on leaders right now is immense: you are expected to convey calm optimism in the midst of a global pandemic, take short-term decisions faced with a fragile economic future, juggle unprecedented business demands while remaining sensitive to employee...

Director of Membership – Adoption UK

I've been working with Donna for around six months and during that time she has really helped me to focus my energy and attention in the right areas to push forward and achieve the personal objectives that I had set for myself, with Donna's help. Having the benefit of...

Executive Director – Global Communications, Avon Cosmetics Ltd

Steph strikes a great balance of being supportive, motivational and realistic. She helps me to identify my strengths but she also holds me to account and challenges me. She has a wealth of tips and tricks and brings a variety of theory and models into play in a...

SME Lloyds Banking Group, Area Director 

Stephanie delivered a superb session at our Growing Female Talent event. She understood the brief perfectly and delivered a great learning experience for all. Hannah Alexander

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