Overthinking - Killing Your Vibes
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Known as the workplace culture whisperer, , a leadership expert and sought after keynote speaker, helps teams and organizations build cultures where people feel seen, heard, and valued. With over two decades of experience transforming teams across government or Fortune 500 companies and global nonprofit, she excels at bringing a human centred approach to leadership, fuelling engagement, belonging, and real-world results. Dr Jolene changed schools 33 times, Kindergarten through 12. She had to build a relationship and then move on. No surprise then that, some of her...
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Building Resilience
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In conversation with Laura Gates In building resilience leaders and organizations, recognise the parts of the business that are not doing well. Some parts of the system are operating ways simply out of habit or normalised patterns that aren't helpful to the business anymore. To sharpen the strategic perspective, effective leaders need to make sure they can carve out space and time to think and reflect. It's amazing the ideas, innovative, creative thoughts that come through when leaders are able to step back and get an expanded perspective. Resilience grows through connection...
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My Life Caring for Frank
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“I’m not going to say it was any prettier than it was, but it was an honour to take care of him. He was a great husband”. In “My life Caring for Frank”, Carol Weisman shares as she talks about her life caring for her beloved husband Frank. She put a pause on her consultancy and speaking. She's now returning to international work, grateful for the time she spent with Frank and looking forward to connecting with the world once again.
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Life After Loss
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Carol Weisman founded Board Builders, an international consultant firm focused on fundraising, philanthropy, and governance in 1994. She is the author of 11 books and is writing her 12th. In 2020, her husband Frank Robbins was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease, and spinal stenosis. Carol had to take a pause on her consultancy and speaking business to care for him. Frank, sadly passed away in January of 2025. Carol is now returning to international work, grateful for the time she spent with Frank. In Life After Loss, she speaks candidly about...
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Talking about Teams - What Makes Teams Resilient?
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Stephen Light shines light on Team Resiliency. “What makes a high-performing, resilient team is when people know that they feel safe on that team.” He says “The teams who stick together, the teams who understand that we have each other's backs. They feel safe around each other. They trust each other. They are aligned on a common vision, a common effort that they are working towards. They talk with each other, recognising where each other are, they are human to human with each other. And what that does is help people’s resiliency come out, because, when you are alone in the job that you...
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The Intersection of Faith, Work and Life
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The Intersection, Faith, Work, and Life is an introduction to God’s Design for Integrated Living. The Cities Project Global. awakens equip and unleash leaders into the city. Through Leadership Circles, the reach becomes impactful. The Leadership Circle is a nine-topic worldview journey into faith, vocation, and culture. And it's, a guided journey that facilitates the growth of leaders through these nine topics. Along the way these leaders get a clearer picture of where to focus their attention. Dr Robert C Varney and Hugh W Brandt introduce the design for integrated living in a...
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Storytelling - Leadership Narratives that Build Healthy Communities
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Storytelling: Leadership that build healthy communities is such a timely theme to talk about. “If we want the best out of our people, we have to treat our people well. You can't rely on them being resilient if you're trying your best to kill them with structure. We are maturing to be more focused on the contributor, not the contribution. The biggest piece of resilience is believing that you can rebound, you can overcome, you can come back, you can heal. To believe that you can't, proves you can't, and makes it so you won't. You've got to believe that you can overcome....
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Introducing Future-Focus, Well-Being and Resilience
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Future-Focus, Well-Being and Resilience focuses on journeys that can keep us well and support our resilience. No two journeys are the same. We also recognise habits, practices, lessons that nurture us and help us flourish, support us to be fruitful and enable us to move from surviving to thriving. 1. We love to capture and share pearls of insight and wisdom. These are aired in our podcast, blogs and guest appearances across the world. 2. We touch on hope as the gift that keeps giving . We explore...
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Finding Joy
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Tesse Akpeki says " When I prioritise finding joy in what I do, success follows naturally. Creating balance, addressing a tendency towards workaholism, seeking meaning and purpose as I aim for excellence are important features as I flesh out my pathway to wellbeing. A few years ago I came to the conclusion that I wish to enjoy what I do. Work hard, yes of course, but not at the expense of burning myself out. Exploration, discovery, learning and cooperation feature highly through my lens of what matters. I am ecstatic when the work I do makes a difference to...
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Leading and Governing Effectively
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Leading and governing effectively recognises that “people are an integral factor to ensuring things are done effectively. Board members, staff, and volunteers need to be empowered, trained and equipped to serve. The concept of service needs to be embedded within the infrastructure. Internal audit is an essential part of this pathway. Different systems need to be managed, controlled, and reported upon, on a frequent basis. Where things are not happening as expected, they are investigated, then discussed and corrective action is taken”. Morlai Kargbo, an Association...
info_outlineKnown as the workplace culture whisperer, Dr Jolene Church, a leadership expert and sought after keynote speaker, helps teams and organizations build cultures where people feel seen, heard, and valued. With over two decades of experience transforming teams across government or Fortune 500 companies and global nonprofit, she excels at bringing a human centred approach to leadership, fuelling engagement, belonging, and real-world results.
Dr Jolene changed schools 33 times, Kindergarten through 12. She had to build a relationship and then move on. No surprise then that, some of her oldest relationships are from childhood days.
“I looked at it in a different way. I needed to make that connection because my survival, my ability to thrive in that moment was based on me connecting. I'm so grateful that I did. This does not mean that I don't overthink things. It means that self-awareness is so important in realising how many times I am stopping myself from stepping into my best self. “
“I don’t want to be muted. There’s much power in the pause, in our present moment. Between every problem and solution is a space. Change will happen in the future. If I choose now to change something, I can't change the past, but I can change the present moment.”