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July is the month when confidence quietly drops. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just enough for you to feel slower, unsure, and slightly behind. You see, you start in January with Energy and set goals, then boom, mid-year it gets clear the year is almost ended because from now you have like two months' break, one in August when the schools or families go on the August or summer break depending on where you are, and then there is December, one full month of festive activity cle

One of the biggest lessons on my journey has always been that the more hurdles we cross, the more we make them lessons for the next leaders around me. So that was one of the reasons it became easier to kick off the second cohort of the coconut work lab school. What we do is simply to be the space for continuous learning for those in the workplace, mid-level managers and managers leading teams in a post-COVID-era workplace. We are looking at all the human skills we take for gr

https://youtu.be/kGPNVnVfFJQ?si=1bQmx0gG80udJ4Cn We celebrate people when they “make the leap". But we rarely ask what they had to unlearn first. In this conversation, a man walks away from banking… into aviation. Not because it was easy. But because staying would have cost him something deeper. This isn’t about a career change. It’s about identity…what we inherit, what we perform, and what we eventually have the courage to release. https://youtu.be/kGPNVnVfFJQ?si=1bQmx0gG80u

We don’t realise how easily a survival mode becomes a lifestyle. It starts quietly — a little more pressure at work, a little less clarity about the future, a little more noise from the world around us. Before long, we’re living in a constant state of reaction, not intention. We wake up worn out, work endlessly, scroll to escape, and call it “life”. But it’s not life. It’s survival. And survival has a hidden cost. It steals your creativity. It shrinks your courage. It numbs y

Lessons from Breaking the Coconut Redefining Talent The Generational Organisation Playbook: Cycles My first book, Breaking the Coconut , started with a simple observation. Many organizations struggle not because people lack talent… But hidden cultural barriers stop people from contributing fully. was written in the era when jack Zuckerberg and jack dorsey led the most populated social street and the generation then wished they could replicate the same in their lives, and

Three years ago, the most valuable thing on a CV was proof of competence. A degree. A certification. A glowing recommendation. Then the workplace shifted. Artificial intelligence accelerated. Markets shook. Teams are spread across borders. It would be fair to say all these happened before the COVID-19 era, and that even though we envisaged a world of work like this, the pandemic gave wings to this And suddenly, emotional intelligence, not academic brilliance, determined who s