It’s been quite a year that we are saying goodbye to. What with Trump and his tweets, and from where I sit in London, watching the shambles of Brexit unfold. I was amused by the view of Deutschlandfunk commentator Peter Kapern, who described Brexit as, “the biggest political nonsense since the Roman emperor Caligula made […]
The HUMAN POTENTIAL Assessment is a powerful tool to measure and unlock how much of our potential is being expressed and how we can develop ourselves to realize more of it. It can be deployed at an organizational, team and individual level. Earlier this year we ran an ORGANIZATIONAL project with Thornton’s Budgens and generated […]
As I have written about here and elsewhere, with our case study we have proven that the heart work we undertake in businesses grows sales – it does that by tapping into more of the Human Potential of an organisation. In our case study, we have shown that in Thornton’s Budgens, we access 8% more […]
I came across the idea of a B-Corp early on in my exploration of what it would be like to run a business heartfully. For those aren’t familiar with this concept, B-Corps were created in the US as an antidote to the profit rules motive. By US law, companies are required to maximise shareholder value. […]
Soon after I set out on my “Heart in Business” journey, I realised that if I was going to make any progress in our numbers driven business culture, I would have to link what I was doing to hard business numbers. Pretty much every business I know measures itself on some set of financial numbers, […]
“Growing people, Growing business to full potential for a better society” When I founded Heart in Business Limited, the vision was “Putting people and our planet first, trusting profit will follow”. For me that created the sense that there was a better way than the short-term profit focus that seems to dominate current business thinking. […]
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 current paradigm where competition, productivity, control and bottom line are the main drivers, to a more […]
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. Through the on-line survey we completed, we know we are using 8% more of our Human Potential than a ‘control’ (similar and […]
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’ – something that really bugs them. For James Dyson, the motivation to create the Airblade hand dryer was how rubbish most toilet hand dryers […]
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 of us be seen. We become smaller people there. That can’t be right. Not for our individual sense of wellbeing and not for […]