Therapy Focus has just celebrated their 20 year anniversary and I am privileged to have been their inaugural CEO, setting up the organisation. I’d like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to the team and wanted to share my interview, just one of the stories that form part of the Therapy Focus history. Thanks to Tessa … Continue reading "Sharing my story for 20 year Celebrations at Therapy Focus"
Successful CEOs are usually people who once had a specific skill set or expertise in specific areas. Over the years they have become what I describe as ‘well rounded’, as a result of a broad range of experiences in leadership and management roles. They have become generalists who are not really experts at anything. It’s like … Continue reading "Are CEOs experts at anything?"
It can be lonely at the top… As your career progresses and you move towards more senior leadership roles, you will experience many changes to how you relate to people within various structures, like moving from managing a small team to managing groups of managers! Eventually, as a CEO, you are managing the whole organisation, … Continue reading "CEO Isolation"
In my last post, I spoke about ‘purpose’ and its link to boards. I spoke about how clarity of purpose helps us gravitate towards directorships with organisations that are more aligned with our own purpose and values. There is a strong sense of belonging, of being more comfortable and feeling more fulfilled as a director when … Continue reading "Purpose and moving towards board roles"
There is so much written today about ‘purpose’ – whether it’s about your own purpose as an individual or the purpose of organisations. For me, your purpose is what drives you, it’s your ‘why’. It’s why you get out of bed every morning and do what you do. When we are ‘on purpose’ we find … Continue reading "Purpose and board success"