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Is Your Top Team Ready To Rise?
One of the most important factors for sustainable success is your top team. A healthy organisation simply cannot reach its full potential...

Sophie Graves
Aug 2


Sustainable Organisations Need Sustainable Leaders
What would happen if you didn't sustain yourself, or got hit by the proverbial bus? Working yourself into the ground isn't going to help...

Sophie Graves
Aug 2


“I Do It Mythelf”: When Strength Becomes Strain
Allegedly, my first sentence was 'I do it mythelf'. And that probably stands true to this day. Hyper-independent, with a strong need for...

Sophie Graves
Aug 2


Addicted to Pace and Productivity?
Every time you tick off a task, fire off an email, or solve a problem, you get a satisfying little dopamine hit. It feels good. You’re...

Sophie Graves
Aug 2


Strategic Leadership is Sustainable Leadership
There’s a quiet but critical shift happening in leadership right now. The conversation is no longer just about performance or...

Sophie Graves
Aug 2


The Problem Is Not Always The Problem
Something I've noticed over time, is that the challenges clients bring to our coaching conversations are often not the real problem at...

Sophie Graves
Jul 30


What Lies Beneath: Discovering Your Team's True Potential
Great leadership begins with clear insight. The right assessments can uncover hidden strengths, silent struggles, and the fastest path to...

Sophie Graves
Jul 30


Addicted To Pace And Productivity?
Every time you tick off a task, fire off an email, or solve a problem, you get a satisfying little dopamine hit. It feels good. You’re...

Sophie Graves
Jul 30


Making Strategic Decisions: Choosing the Right Path with Clarity and Purpose
A big part of leading strategically is making good decisions. Big ones, little ones and the ones that keep you tossing and turning at night. But not all decisions are created equal, and if you’re stretched between urgent fires and strategic opportunities, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and unsure.

Sophie Graves
Apr 15


The Courage to Create Strategic Clarity
It takes enormous courage to share your vision for the future with your people, and to persist over time until you achieve traction and impact.

Sophie Graves
Mar 4


Culture off track?
What should you do if your culture is off track, or worse, derailing?

Sophie Graves
Feb 4


Empower Your Team: Delegation by Design
One of the best ways to achieve more accountability from your team is to consider what might be getting in the way (allergies), and some strategies to delegate differently (antidotes).

Sophie Graves
Jan 15


The art of motivation
My kids have recently discovered indoor rock climbing and they’re hooked. Every time they go they get noticeably better – they can scale...

Sophie Graves
Mar 19, 2024


He didn’t fall, he’s strategizing
After failing to overcome a tricky path a few times, I suggested that Ollie needed to try a different approach and plan a strategy for...

Sophie Graves
Mar 19, 2024


Remove the thorns
Strategic leaders often focus on the big issues – the strategy, the results, the impact…as they should. But sometimes it’s not the big...

Sophie Graves
Mar 13, 2024


Culture Club
Your organisation has a culture, and so will each of your teams. But what exactly is it? Can we actually wrap our arms around it? At it's...

Sophie Graves
Mar 5, 2024


Leadership is complex
Leadership is complex. So much so, that sometimes the foundations that enable great leadership to improve performance and impact get...

Sophie Graves
Feb 27, 2024


Creating a 'Self-Strategy'
I'm sure you gave some thought to your hopes and plans for 2024 only a month or so ago. As the year ramps up, now is a good time to...

Sophie Graves
Feb 27, 2024


Capacity Creation in 2024
Feel like there’s never enough time? Don’t wait for a new, magical version of you to arrive next year that will be so disciplined,...

Sophie Graves
Feb 20, 2024


6 ways to communicate with influence and impact
Have you ever wished that you could bring more of your best self to meetings, presentations and key conversations? 6P’s FOR PRESENCE Even...

Sophie Graves
Feb 20, 2024
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