by Liz Carter | 15th June 2026 | Other
Hello lovely people. There’s been a few stories that have jumped out to us (and maybe to you too) over the past week. Some have left us uneasy and uncertain and we often find this can reflect how the wider population are also feeling and what they’re struggling with....
by Liz Carter | 1st June 2026 | Other
Hi all! Social Mobility Day is coming up on the 11th June and this year's theme is Stories Matter. I really like that theme because social mobility often gets reduced to numbers. How many people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds make it into leadership positions?...
by Liz Carter | 14th May 2026 | Other
If AI Can Coach, What’s the Role of Human Coaches? This question came up in a recent hub call with our coaching community at THC. It wasn’t a neat debate about whether AI will or won’t replace coaching but we did start with the provocation ‘Is 1:1 coaching dead?’....
by Liz Carter | 22nd April 2026 | Other
Hi all! A big thank you to Angie at Associated British Foods for forwarding this article to us. We always pay attention when something lands that speaks to Leading with Heart, because it is so integral to the work we do and the conversations we are having with clients...
by Liz Carter | 13th April 2026 | Other
Hi everyone - Liz here with some thoughts about Stress Awareness Month, that will hopefully actually make you feel good about stress awareness! Let’s have a go… We are often told: “You can’t control what happens, but you can control your reaction.” That can feel...
by Liz Carter | 26th March 2026 | Other
Hiya! Along with the rest of the country, I watched Louis Theroux’s documentary and it was deeply troubling, although not surprising because of the work we’ve done in this area. It echoed conversations we have been having for some time, including at last year’s...
by Liz Carter | 9th March 2026 | Other
Hello! One of the themes* this International Women’s Day is ‘Give to Gain’, a phrase that speaks to collaboration and shared success. And yet, as I’ve sat with the theme over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself questioning the uneven and often invisible side of...
by Liz Carter | 27th February 2026 | Other
Hi everyone! Over the past few months I have been increasingly aware of the moral intensity that seems to accompany conversations about AI, particularly when it comes to designing, writing or creating. The debate is rarely neutral. It is framed in language about...
by Liz Carter | 16th February 2026 | Other
I’ve been thinking again about the future of work and AI. This time after a conversation with my brother, who works in fashion. We were talking about how parts of the industry are responding to AI. They're not trying to compete with it on perfection, but by leaning...
by Liz Carter | 27th January 2026 | Other
Hello! It’s National Storytelling Week and I’ve been thinking about what stories actually do to our systems - both our organisational ones and our physical bodies. We are wired for story because story helps us make sense of uncertainty. It creates coherence. It helps...
