Where do you sit in the decision-making hierarchy on your project? Are you a senior leader that is not senior enough to make key decisions, nor experienced enough - or perhaps lucky enough - to delegate tasks to other team members in order to think straight?

Admittedly, as an industry, we have a...

My version of confidence might be different from yours. It may also depend on the day, the circumstances I find myself in, or the challenge I’m choosing to take on. Don’t you think we should broaden our understanding of confidence, the role it plays in determining how we show up and...

If you’ve created a strategy and you’re accountable for it, you’re more likely to want to protect it at all costs. Do you agree? Unless of course, you’ve surrounded yourself with trustworthy, balanced expertise and you have sufficient humility to admit mistakes and learn...

Leaders can be great communicators, but it’s not a given. Put simply, if you don’t engage with your wider team and stakeholders and bring them with you, some aspects of the project will fail.

So many talented leaders doubt their ability to communicate effectively. Especially when they...

High-performing teams can be cultivated, tuned and motivated by the environment created for them to work within. This changes the focus from leaders requiring complete control over performance to instead obsessing over the parameters that enable talent to thrive.    

For me,...

Leadership is an enabler and curatorial role. Why is it so easily misunderstood as management or an authoritative, decision-making role? 

So many of us slip into leadership roles almost by accident and are completely oblivious to the patterns of leadership that we repeat simply because this...

This is a question that I’ve been obsessed with for most of my career. When a vision is strong, a clear strategy is in place, and a talented group of individuals are carefully assembled . . . . Why is it that a team can still struggle to perform and the project outcome can fall flat? 

The aim is to create an environment where your greatest critics can praise you and your best cheerleaders can alert you to trouble.

Want an environment where individuals perform at their best, can rely on each other for intellectual and moral support and where communication is intentional,...

My most personal blog to date - perhaps it resonates?

They say be authentic. Be yourself and bring all of your relevant experiences to the table. BUT what they actually want is for you to conform, to play a predefined role, and to accept the limitations that come with that.

Sound familiar?

By ...

It might sound counterintuitive but fast failure isn’t fatal – it’s affirming.

Knowing that we can measure almost anything today is both liberating and annoying! When it comes to the built environment, we are susceptible to measuring what we see in front of us. The visual,...

A project framework without flexibility and accountability - is a false start. 

Clarity on strategy is a beautiful thing and it is worth writing down. Accept that you won’t be able to anticipate every eventuality for your project. BUT be bold enough to try!

As important as you are, the...

A project vision without a compelling reason to exist and continuous advocacy - is a false start. 

You can’t lead successfully without envisioning where your team needs to go before they get there. A vision without advocacy is just a beautiful picture in your head that nobody sees or...