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A Pandemic of Employee Engagement
I have been working on employee engagement for more than a decade, initially I fell into it as a natural evolution of internal communication.Then, the passion for team dynamics and human engagement hooked me deeply. However, for years I felt I had to justify and...
The Loss of Balance
The loss of balance Recently, I have noticed my son has been dragging his blanket all over the house and pulling it over his head … to be fair, I want to do the same. Waiting for certainty is a draining process. I hear people around me constantly self-reassuring that...
What burnout taught me about having an athlete mindset
The beauty of my job as a coach is the variety of people I meet. The plurality of experiences I am exposed to and the connections I create with people. Sometimes, I meet people whose experiences are very similar to mine, and whose personalities reflect mine. I don’t...
5 tips to ease and prevent stress
We have just come back from a few days holiday and guess what: as soon as I stepped into the ferry to France I fell ill. I had my first EVER migraine. That means I had to stay in a dark room for the first 3 days of the holiday, and wearing sun glasses-when inside- for...
Kokoro Consultancy is 1!
August 2019 is the month when we celebrate our first birthday. Long live Kokoro! It's been an amazing ride: it all started with a conversation and an idea around authenticity. That then became a mission: bringing more humanity back into workplaces and everyday life....
Keep calm and praise
Often, when coaching leaders on how to engage employees, I am asked: 'So, how am I supposed to behave as a leader during stressful and high pressure times?’ It’s not easy to keep having compassionate communications and behave authentically when under extreme pressure....
What yoga teaches you about conscious leadership
Last weekend I finally finished my Yoga teacher training diploma, after 2 years of very intense work. I remember enrolling in the course when I was still on mat leave from my last corporate job, thinking that I would have had the mental and physical space to carry on...
Mind your language!
The other day I was teaching a yoga class and giving lots of precise instructions. At least, I felt they were precise! I consciously tried not to use negative language such as ‘Don’t do that…or You don’t want to …’. Instead, I opted for words such ‘Avoid doing xxx or...
Imposter syndrome anyone?
I coach amazing people, women and men, all of them are clearly successful, clever, funny, most of them high achievers, but they all have one thing in common: they think they’ve got there because of luck. No matter how much evidence they are able to find to support...
Pausing for thought …
In the last couple of months, I travelled a fair amount, spending a month in Japan with my family, dragging my 2 year old from place to place, then back to London and travelling again in the UK. Then I’m literally just landing to Heathrow now, coming back from...
