Quiet Courage
Quiet Courage is a call to radically redefine bravery, illuminating the unseen, persistent acts of courage within us and empowering a cultural revolution that builds a future rooted in equity, resilience, and meaningful transformation.
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Who decided the bomb should fall? (opens the original)
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I can’t ever escape my work as I am constantly thinking about making decisions. Even when I don’t want to think about decisions, I’m left with needing to make decisions, because life is literally one big long list of decisions.If I were to have to book a holiday, I would find that in itself unenjoyable, as it’s yet more decisions to be made. I am sure many of you caring for others, with dependants, a business, a home and all the rest of it, share in my decision fatigue.For example, catch me at t
Small acts, big change (opens the original)
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Hello You,When I am at my bravest and best, not distracted by paying the bills and worrying about social care and climate change, I am galvanised by human agency, potential and creativity. By the hope and determination that, between us, we have ended wars, changed laws, found cures, saved lives.That role models past and present like Emmeline Pankhurst, Dolly Parton, and Gisèle Pelicot show humanity their commendable courage. And that men and women, like the clients I work with, or those you walk
Was it me, or was it circumstance? (opens the original)
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I have several programmes open for Be Braver at the moment. It’s exciting when the spaces fill and I get to work with new people. And they get to meet new people too. We all learn together. If you’d like to join a cohort, please do get in touch and I can let you know what's going to work best for you or your team. Or whether an in-house one might be better,There have been occasions where programmes haven’t run, or the dates have had to move because the spaces didn’t fill. I remember the first ti
Whistleblowing, fairness, belonging and collective courage (opens the original)
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What Harvard Business’s 2026 leadership report gets right - and why decision making is human capability (opens the original)
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I’ve spent almost a decade building a business on a simple proposition: the leaders and organisations that thrive through change and uncertainty are the ones who build out from, and lead, with courage. So when I finally dug into Harvard Business Publishing’s 2026 Global Leadership Study, it wasn’t just an interesting read. It was a decade of my own conviction and research findings, compiled albeit in an AI-centric report.The data is unambiguous. Asked what leaders need to meet today’s
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