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For years, leadership training focused on finding your one style, as if influence were a personality test. But the most effective leaders are not defined by a single approach. They are defined by timing.

The Thinking Skill Every Leader Thinks They Have… Until They Need It! If there is one competency that separates managers from transformational leaders, it is not confidence, charisma or even experience, it is critical thinking. But not the academic version we memorised in school. The real-world version. The kind that determines whether you can see clearly when the room is filled with noise, pressure and competing agendas. This kind of thinking is lived, not learned.

How Guilt Reshapes Women’s Leadership, Relationships and Power. There is a conversation many women leaders avoid having, not because they lack courage, but because they have been conditioned to carry the emotional burden quietly. It is the conversation about guilt. Not the obvious guilt that follows a mistake, but the deeper, more insidious version. 

“By 2030, nearly 500 million women worldwide will be navigating menopause, yet most health policies and workplace strategies remain unprepared for this demographic shift.” – FP Analytics, 2025  As 2026 approaches, the intersection of geopolitics, pension inequality and menopause is no longer a distant concern, it is a pressing reality shaping women’s financial security, health outcomes and career trajectories.

When we think about menopause, conversations often circle around hot flushes, mood swings and HRT. But intimacy? That is the silent partner in this transition, rarely discussed, yet deeply felt. Add a global pandemic into the mix and the silence becomes deafening.