When something goes wrong, is your first response to want to know whose fault it is? Now on the surface, this makes complete sense. Once you find out whose fault it is, you can fix it…

Imagine this: Your phone rings. It’s a client you’ve been working with on a really big project. The person on the other end is furious. They cannot believe the work that you’ve done has not…

Everyone is always on the lookout for the Next Big Thing. Today I wanted to share about a book called Company of One by Paul Jarvis. It is a book all about why staying small is…

If you’ve been following along for a little while, you’ll know that I am an avid reader. I’m often asked what are my favourite leadership books. And through curating this list, I realized that there…

We are on the home stretch. Can you believe we’re about to hit the fourth quarter of the year 2022?! What can the beginning of a season or the beginning of a quarter mean for…

The great thing about having your own business is that you get to design it. Hello, freedom! But sometimes we get so busy, that we forget to make the most of this freedom. What I…

What a month! Great to see two big projects come to fruition and wins with ongoing Leadership Coaching clients. In July I was part of a team that delivered a 3-day off-site Leadership Conference. With external…

Negative feedback. Love it or hate it. It won’t surprise you to know, that most people hate it. So why does feedback hurt so much? Firstly, it has a bit to do with how our…

As a kid, have you been asked “Did you make any friends at school today?” The reason we ask this question of children nervously is that we know that school without friends can be a…

Half of the year is done! It’s great to have a couple of new ways to share resources with clients – this month with a new website and in May the podcast launched! You might…

A lot of tough stuff comes up when you start to grow a team. As a leader or solopreneur, there’s the worry that maybe your clients won’t like to see that you’re growing a team……

I want to tell you first, a little story about dating, and then about the Leadership Ladder, and how leaders aren’t born, they’re trained.  Now Kate, what does dating have to do with leadership? Stick…

If you are thinking about hiring soon, here’s a little tip: Don’t put your candidates under unnecessary pressure just to see if they crack. So many leaders have told me that they do this when…

✨ CATCH UP ON THE LEVEL UP LEADERSHIP PODCAST ✨ Last week was the official podcast launch (yahoo!). To celebrate the release of the first five episodes, you’re in the running for a pack of…

I can’t believe the day is finally here. This has been a work in progress for over a year and I’m so excited that it’s ready for you to tune in. This podcast is for…

I’m scared of having tough conversations with my team… so maybe I’ll just do it myself (or not hire anyone into my team). Have you ever thought something like that ☝️ before, [first name]? Or…

Something my clients tell me all the time? Leadership is lonely. When you’re responsible for your people (and/or business) you lose the feeling of having ‘peers’.  People who you can talk to, that can help…

It’s no secret that I like to get out and do things. I love to travel. See new places. Go on adventures. One of my favourite adventures? Hiking the Three Capes in Tasmania. For those…

Here’s a wrap of April, including… book summary for you some cool research on the most important leadership skill A a highlight reel of what I got up to this month (and mark your calendar!…

Ready to level up? People say to me that they want to grow their business, but don’t know where to start. It just feels so overwhelming.  Or that they’ve grown organically without a plan, and…

I have a monthly shift as a volunteer surf lifesaver… One of my other lives. At the beginning of each shift, we pull everyone in for a team brief to talk about the surf conditions…

March. What a month. Things are all a bit crazy in the world. Sometimes it can feel really overwhelming. Stephen Covey’s Model of Proactivity can be a nice reminder of our Circle of Influence. I’m…

Fun fact: I perform in musicals. 💃 I know! I told you that I live a lot of lives. There’s just so many things that I enjoy doing. But every time I audition for a…

When I first started Zenith Journey, I did everything myself. Everything. I was a classic “doer” who thought that I needed to DO it all. I was a one-woman marketing department who wrote my own…

For the shortest month, I had the most amount of in-person workshops in 2 years. Which to be honest, isn’t hard (thee-who-shall-not-be-mentioned *cough*). It was so nice to do workshops with teams, using physical card-sorts,…

27th February 2022 is my 4-year brain-iversary. It’s been 4 years since my vertebral artery dissection and (first) minor stroke. When I was in hospital I set a goal to do another half-ironman triathlon in…

I was working with two different senior leaders recently. From two different companies, in two different industries. Yet, they had the same challenge. They were struggling with getting their teams to take ownership of projects….

How do you decide what leadership style is right for you? The great news is, you already have a leadership style. Everyone does. Even if we don’t know it. Why? Because we are all leaders….

Have you ever noticed that the person who is the best at sales, then gets promoted to be the head of the sales team? Or the best engineer then is promoted to lead the team?…

I used to hate getting negative feedback. because it would reinforce the feeling that I hadn’t done a good enough job (or the feeling that I wasn’t good enough). So what did I do? Avoid…

It was about 6 years ago, and at that time I was the Director of People and Performance for a project management firm. In one of our Executive Team workshops, we each had to present…

How to get the best from Introverts and Extroverts, PLUS one nifty facilitation technique – ‘think, pair, share’. Register for the free Masterclass in June 2021 “3 ways to engage your audience, using visuals (and…

Tonight I will tick off a goal that has been 1144 days in the making. If someone told me how hard it would be, or how many ups and downs, I would have felt devastated. …

Why you need to get used to change (and how to change in the right direction) Have you ever said to a child “wow, you’ve grown!” Even if it was only a week since your…

How do you record your coaching conversations with your team or clients? Most people don’t. Which means that the golden moments can get lost, and the steps forward forgotten. And the next time you meet…

If you’ve been following Zenith Journey for a while, you may know… at the end of 2019 I had another small stroke, and in May 2020, heart surgery. Sometimes we all need some time in…

Science shows that people who are happy at work, are more productive and more sought after leaders and team members. So if it is so beneficial, how can we encourage more of it? I host a…

In 2014, after more than 7 years of working with countless leaders, trying my best to bring a contribution to positive change in organisations, I had a realisation. No consultant will ever change a company….

As the year is drawing to an end and a new cycle of life is waiting to be born, most of us feel like taking some time to reflect on the past twelve months, with…

It has been four years since I stumbled, in a little book shop in Seattle, upon a book that would make me rethink and expand my previous map of the world. The book is called…

“What did you do in school today?” is the question that I heard every day, approximatively 170 days per year, for twelve years. This means I heard this question at least 2040 times in my…

Recently I had a conversation with my three year old daughter, which shook me to the core. “Edna, I love you and I am so happy to have you in my life and to have…

In 2007, as I (Alis) began my career as a leadership development trainer, I was (naively) convinced that, if you show leaders what the best practices are when it comes to effective behaviours at work,…

All of the key messages I got throughout my upbringing have been centred around what a successful person should learn/do/achieve in order to lead a happy, prosperous and fulfilling life. For years I strived to…

Twenty years ago, the concept of mindfulness and practices like meditation or yoga were in the realm of hippies, eccentrics, of the quirkiest of us. Since then, a revolution has taken place. While MRI and…

Last night I found my partner in the kitchen listening to a podcast. “It’s a coaching session” he told me as I walked in. “The coach is a friend of mine, a guy I like…

Over two decades ago, a remarkable man, a psychology professor called Martin Seligman, had a dialogue with his 5 year old daughter that would change his own life and the course of the science of psychology…