In today’s organisational landscape, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) have evolved from aspirational goals to critical components of strategy. Yet, many efforts remain superficial, focusing on optics rather than fostering true belonging and empowerment. This article delves into the deeper layers of identity and relational dynamics, introducing the Being Framework and the Nested Theory of Sense-Making as essential tools for understanding and enhancing individual and collective performance. By movi...

The Metacontent of Being and Identity: Rethinking Diversity, Inclusion, and Sustainable Organisations

Dignity isn’t granted or borrowed—it’s earned through mastery of one’s Being. It is the unshakable state where no internal or external force dictates your fate. History is littered with those who mistook proximity to power for real strength—leaders who relied on fickle allies, nations that outsourced their sovereignty, and individuals who sought validation over self-sufficiency. The result? Humiliation, disposability, and collapse. This article exposes the illusion of borrowed strength...

The Naked Emperor's Tailor: When Power Dresses You Down

The global financial system isn’t just failing—it’s built to concentrate power and enforce dependencies. From manipulated currencies to top-down “sustainability” mandates that require constant intervention, control is the real currency. This article cuts through the noise, exposing how economic coercion operates and why we’ve been conditioned to accept it. Using the Nested Theory of Sense-Making, Metacontent, and the Being Framework, it maps the deeper structures shaping our economic...

The Empire’s Fragile Bedrock: Why The Global Economy Is Unsustainable and How It Holds Humanity Hostage

Why do founders reject the very opportunities they chase? Why do investors fall for hype instead of substance? This article unpacks the delusions of both entrepreneurs and investors—from founders who mistake struggle for strategy to investors seduced by startup theatre. It exposes self-sabotage, blind spots, and wasted capital, showing how misplaced confidence and poor sense-making lead to failure. The solution? Sense-Making, Meta-Content, the Being Framework, and sustainable value creation—...

The Blind Spot of Opportunity: When Entrepreneurs Bite the Hand That Could Help

Every human being must choose how they engage with existence—lead, conform, or control. The Crowd avoids responsibility, seeking comfort in conformity and scapegoating those who challenge them. The Elite manipulates responsibility, engineering narratives to maintain power. The Leader takes responsibility and aligns with reality. Leadership isn’t about titles—it’s about those who hold things together, whether in families, communities, or entire civilisations. Every home has someone who ca...

The Silent Weight of Leadership: The Grace of Responsibility, the Illusion of Power, and the Betrayal of Conformity

The Perils of Shallow Thinking in a Complex World—Breaking Free from the Illusion of Instant Understanding

We don’t just take mental shortcuts—we pass judgment and act upon them, mistaking biases for truth, assumptions for knowledge, and gut reactions for wisdom. This leads to missed opportunities, broken relationships, career stagnation, and large-scale societal dysfunction.

This article reveals the illusion of instant understanding, exposing how intellectual laziness distorts reali...

The Curse of Snap Judgments: How Intellectual Laziness and Mental Shortcuts Are Wrecking Your Life and Society

As an emerging leader with aspirations to climb the corporate ladder or transition to a more fulfilling career, do you believe you have to pretend to be someone you’re not to be accepted? Do you sometimes doubt yourself or feel unheard, unseen and undervalued? If so, you’re not alone. Putting on a fake persona in the workplace is more common than many people realise. However, there are significant costs in doing so. In this article, Jeanette Mundy explains why the adage that you have to ‘f...

Sick of changing who you are to fit in?

As a sales leader, be it an individual sales director, account manager, business development professional or sales manager, you are constantly interacting with and leading people, whether they are reporting to you or indirectly supporting you to win your next deal for the company. Empowering clients and supporting them with solutions to their problems always comes back to interpersonal relationships. And we all know what every relationship needs: trust. The question is, how can you build trust r...

Building trust in the sales relationship

Stepping into an account management or sales leadership role can be challenging, especially if your sales deals can take 12–24 months or longer to secure. Complexities show up throughout the purchasing cycle, from qualifying a new opportunity, engaging clients with presentations and sharing your solution’s capabilities to producing, presenting and negotiating a project contract to implement the solution. As a sales leader, how can you remain effective throughout such a lengthy process, espec...

4 factors that contributed to winning large & complex sales deals

You need to work on your business, not in your business. As a business owner, you’ve probably heard this line multiple times, be it from business advisors or well-meaning people trying to help. But does the thought of delegating some of the operational tasks you currently do yourself to make your business a success seem too far from your reach? In this article, business consultant Anthea Stevanovic reveals seven steps to gradually remove yourself from your business' operational functions and e...

Get yourself out of your business' operations: The 7 steps

When we are at the receiving end of obstacles and unexpected detours, it’s easy to get stuck in the trap of victimhood. If you manage a team with members who are constantly locked in complaint mode and find it difficult to turn the situation around, team morale can be impacted, slowing productivity. In this article, Jacqueline Hofste, an ontological leadership coach with a background in senior leadership roles in the corporate environment and archetypal consulting, explains how and what we can...

Is your team stuck in Victimhood mentality

It's easy to feel isolated, different, alone and excluded when dealing with a disbaility that impacts you 24/7. While some disabilities are visible because they are obvious, there are a vast number of hidden or invisible conditions that affect people's daily lives just as significantly. Many people choose to keep their hidden disability a secret, often not realising the toll that decision can take until things start spiralling out of control. In this article, Wayne Stickel, a wellbeing and effec...

The role of a community in supporting people with hidden disabilities to flourish

It is natural to want to understand why you are the way you are. But once you have that insight, what can you do about it if you discover areas that aren’t serving you? Traditional theories and approaches suggest that you learn how to manage your fixed traits or set short-term action plans to change certain habits or behaviours. In this article, Lucy Faulconer, General Manager – Being Profile®, a leadership coach and an organisational psychologist, reveals how she and many other coaches, le...

How the Being Profile facilitates our ability to transform

Many people like the idea of becoming a coach and dive in without considering why they want to pursue professional coaching and what it takes to create a successful coaching business. Many also don’t have an authentic understanding of what it means to be a professional coach. As General Manager of the Being Profile®, Lucy Faulconer leads a global community of coaches and has the opportunity to hear the stories behind why they chose to become a coach. In this article, she shares some of those ...

Are you thinking of becoming a coach?

Modern society has provided an opportunity to redefine the traditional male and female roles that have been passed down from father to son and mother to daughter for millennia. However, rather than treat each other as humans and appoint the best person for the job, we seem to be caught up in the need to balance the power between the sexes, for example, by electing women just because there are too many men at the top. In this article, John Williams discusses why healthy masculinity is no threat t...

Why healthy masculinity is no threat to feminine empowerment, and “real men” are not afraid of women having power

Are you a business owner who feels overwhelmed and frustrated because you are constantly putting out fires? Is addressing whatever issue pops up on any given day preventing you from being the proactive, strategic and productive leader you want to be who is working towards achieving a clearly defined set of goals? If so, you are not alone. Anthea Stevanovic explains why this issue is so common and the steps she uses to successfully support her clients to elevate themselves from firefighters to fu...

Are you a firefighter or a business owner?

Being part of a sales organisation as a key account, customer engagement, or customer success manager can be challenging. It requires you to balance organisational, client and partner interests while constantly looking out for opportunities to solve problems for clients and secure the next deal to grow company revenue. One key challenge is identifying where to spend the most time and effort. Another is to determine for which of your customer’s problems your organisation’s solution is a match...

How to deal with running out of time as a sales leader

It is often in the most challenging situations that we learn what we are truly made of. They also teach us the most valuable lessons. But that does not make them easy. And it can be tempting to run away or turn a blind eye to a situation we would prefer not to deal with. In this article, leadership and confidence coach Helen Robinett shares a personal case study when tough leadership decisions had to be made and she was the only one who could make them. She also explains the factors that allowed...

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