by alessandra | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog
Former GE CEO Jack Welch once famously said that 3 out of 5 leadership traits are innate. These traits are energy, passion and the ability to energise or engage others. I would go one step further and say that other traits such as anti-fragility, agility and...
by alessandra | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog
Understanding your strengths and weaknesses is undoubtedly one of the best ways to improve your leadership and team-building capability, as well as navigating through life successfully and effortlessly. Assessing our level of innate robustness and then compensating...
by alessandra | Oct 19, 2016 | Blog
Is your digestion underperforming and are you going about your day in a perpetual state of blah? Do you wake up in the morning feeling like a furry animal just died in your mouth? Do you need coffee, sugar, carbs or neon coloured drinks to zest you back up at regular...
by alessandra | Oct 3, 2016 | Blog
An army marches on its stomach The French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly once said “An army marches on its stomach”, meaning that you canb’t win a war with an army of underfed, malnourished soldiers. 200 years on, while we may not have a...
by alessandra | Sep 5, 2016 | Blog
Spring should be a time for renewal, regeneration and growth. Brighter and longer days should trigger a renewed sense of optimism, enhancing our professional and personal performance. Yet so many of my professional clients report the most fatigue, irritability and...
by alessandra | Aug 10, 2016 | Blog
We tend to categorise ourselves in terms of our likes, dislikes and pre-defined statements such as “I’m good at this” and “I’m not good at that”. We usually assume that those thoughts and categories are true as we have been...