A tale of two businesses, united by one mission: Bringing the heart back into business – Mark Vandeneijnde

In 2010, after a 10-year career in a large multinational, I set off on my own. Something was tugging at my heart. Deep down I knew that I had a role to play to help organizations transition from the c...

Andrew Isaac Thornton on Turning Human Potential Insight into Action

For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, you’ll know that we have connected the Human Potential coaching work we have done at my supermarket, Thornton’s Budgens, to our results. Throug...

It’s all about Empowerment

I attended a fascinating workshop last week for founders of companies. One of the key things Tom Nixon (the facilitator) shared was that people who found companies usually have an ‘itch’ – somet...

Introducing Helena Clayton and her take on Putting Heart into Business

Putting heart into business Many organisations are places where the self isn’t welcomed. Where our humanity isn’t given much space to breathe and where we feel we shouldn’t let some parts...

Andrew Thornton on SPARKing a change

I am delighted that my colleague Eudora and I are running a workshop at the SPARK the Change conference in London in July. I feel we are living in a very exciting time as organisations start to get th...

Introducing … Lloyd Miller

Who is Lloyd Miller? Lloyd is a mentor and coach, working mostly with senior executives who wish to explore work related issues, both personal and organisational. He is a qualified humanistic psycholo...

Let there be space in our togetherness…

On Marriage You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of...

Lessons from Volkwagen

There is a view shared by many business leaders and commentators that the way we are working in organisations today isn’t working. I believe the reason for this is that, in their ...

Andrew Isaac Thornton on ‘Ikigai’.

Ikigai – an inspiration from Japan: I believe that one of the reasons that the business world is in turmoil and people are saying “the way we are working isn’t working anymore”, is that busi...

Practising Conscious Leadership – Charlie Efford

You have looked at the way your organisation operates and bumped up daily against the politics and games that people play. You have noticed the mixed levels of engagement and, maybe wondered what it w...

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