Becoming Autonomous
Within the corporate world the word ‘Autonomy “is becoming a biggie! The problem is how to create it when the cultures in most large corporates are designed to do anything [...]
A New Adventure – Deeply Agile
After 8 years at Standard Bank I have made the rather tough decision to leave and start my own company, Deeply Agile. The last 2 years as a facilitator for [...]
Finding My Why in New York – Simon Sinek Style
2017 was the year of really finding my passion – namely group coaching and facilitating around shifting behaviours and mental models and maps. The problem was, I wasn’t sure why [...]
And That is How Leaders Create Compliance, Thinking it is Great Leadership
LEADER (as a participant in the room), " So we all agree it is....." or the faster, "Does everyone agree ?" ROOM ..... some nods, mostly that suspicious silence that [...]
13 Years as Deepest – Where Are The Women ?
Today, back in 2004, after almost 6 hours in the water I surfaced with a new Guinness World record for the Deepest dive by a Woman in Scuba! My dive [...]
When Roles Own Delivery – how to shift that to teams
One of the interesting parts of my job as a Agile Transformation Coach is the shift from command and control cultures (that created waterfall as a way of delivering software), [...]
Listen to my Talk from Agile Africa 2017 on Agile Leadership Labs
Alomgside all the other talks from Agile Africa 2017, my talk is now available on YouTube. I was talking about my passion, creating spaces where people are able to shift [...]
Living my Awesome, Creating Awesome Workplaces, Delivering Awesome Products
This ain’t a short, in and out post! It’s about finding and living from a deeper sense of purpose and finding and connecting with people who are also living from [...]
Unilateral Control isn’t Restricted to Leaders…
We tend to think of command and control (unilateral control) as something that only leaders live. The language we use re-in forces this belief, especially as the values that Roger [...]
Scrum Gathering Here I Come!
It seems to be the year for me to speak at conferences. Agile Africa went really well and the topic seems to be connecting well into a new direction for [...]