“Leadership” is a VERB!

This week, we offer you a different perspective from our Canadian partner of  The Leadership Group. Pierre Gauthier is one of its lead partners and wrote upon leadership. When I was coaching senior executives overseas this Spring, I learned a great deal about myself,...

“The Power of Stories”

Some times ago, our São-Paulo office head and partner, Gabriela Jardim, asked me to check a video from a lady called Chimamanda Adichie. It was about the Power of Stories. It took me a while to finally watch the video in my huge pile of articles to read and,...

“The games people play in Boardrooms”

Individual coaching is very useful when practiced by a (rare) bunch of truly prepared people. However, the reticence I/we have when invited to coach a single individual, in isolation of their team, is how will we send a hopefully changed person to an unchanged...

“The Ecosystems strategies and their implications ”

Synchronicity: I met some weeks ago in Rio, a friend who is the program director for one of France’s Business School’s Executive MBAs. The highlight of their Brazilian tour had been to challenge participants in the field of strategy and move them from egocentric...