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Periodically Tracey writes blogs that draw on her expertise as a collaboration and leadership expert and provides informative and ‘real life’ examples of how organisation’s can use these tools and techniques to facilitate change in executive teams and workplace culture through engagement, collaboration and action.
Holding Difference: Building Our Robust Debate Muscle
Building our robust debate muscle is something I find most leadership teams, and people, including me, could do with a few workouts focusing on. In...
Adults Behaving Badly – and Those Who Nourish
When my dad passed away a few weeks ago, a knock came at my front door. The daughter of my 96-year-old neighbour was holding a bowl of what...
How Do You Show Up To Professional Learning?
I had a group of leaders at the recent Ferocious Warmth Women in Education Leaders Day as what I call the top-shelf learning level - as...
Does Your Strategic Intent fit the Energy-Meaning test?
I caught up with a friend who had resigned at the end of last year. She felt she just couldn't show up the way she wanted to anymore. In her...
Team Self-regulation – I’ve been XPed!
Another tour learning... Team self-regulation? Psychological safety? Values-driven? How do you authentically do all this in action? Here's something...
Intentionality and Purpose in Bucharest
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”Margaret Mead...
Students, clients, patients, internal customers – are you listening to them?
The Courage to Challenge: Students as Co-Designers of Learning A few months ago, I got to hang out with Summer Howarth and talk all things student...
A Michelin Star Restaurant – All the Mundane Moves of a High Performing Team
As someone who spent a few years as the Business Manager of a hatted fine dining restaurant, I’m an unabashed sucker for a superb meal – one that...
It’s Not About Having Hard Conversations. It’s About Changing Them.
We’re often told to be courageous enough to “have the conversation.” That’s become a kind of workplace mantra. But here's my provocation: Most of us...
Leaders Walking the Talk: The Integrity of Modelling Learning
In education, we know we value learning. We live learning. We create the conditions for learning to flourish for our students. We include it in our...
Us and Them
You can all the systems, processes and protocols in the world. Templates with bells and whistles. But if the trust is broken, the work is like...
DONE TO, DONE FOR, or DONE WITH?
The air was full of infection energy a 'buzz'. People in the room where working in smaller groups looking at some important data that highlighted...
The Paradox of Yet in 2025
The Paradox of Yet: Leading with Duality, Rising Beyond Polarity Over the last few weeks I have had the privilege to work closely with a number of...
Leading Belief Shift
As you step into 2025, I’m sure your annual implementation plan, overarching strategic goals, and frameworks are ready to roll. But here’s a crucial...
Let Them Go With Love
A LEADERSHIP REFLECTION For Australia, it is heading towards the end of the school year. Year 12 exams are done, and there is another cohort of...
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