Plant-Medicine Strength: Embracing Softness in a Hard World with Combat Veteran Keith Abraham, CEO Heroic Hearts UK

By Kate Brassington

The intersection of leadership, mental health, and therapeutic psychedelics is an emerging area of healing and transformation that cannot be ignored. With astonishingly powerful results ranging from full release of all stored trauma reactions, to increased well-being; therapeutic psychedelics and the healing power of plant medicines are forming a bridge between western medicine, and ancient…

Procrastination: Protector or Provocateur?

By Kate Brassington

Published by Kate Brassington on 23/02/24 on LinkedIn. Let’s take a quick look at everyone’s favourite topic – procrastination. Is it a shield guarding us from hasty decisions, or is it a mischievous trickster luring us into last-minute adrenaline rushes? If I had a £, Euro, or $ for every time a person came to…

Fearless Leadership in the Security Sector

By Kate Brassington

Published by Kate Brassington on 16/02/24 on LinkedIn. Women breaking into male-dominated spaces is hardly news, but it is also a story that is not yet fully told. One of the ways we get on is by “holding the door open” for those behind us. In my own experience, together we are stronger. Happily, we are so much more…

Systems-Inspired Leadership

By Kate Brassington

Published by Kate Brassington on 09/02/24 on LinkedIn. The Lone Ranger is a fun archetype for mystery and adventure. But it isn’t much of an archetype for effective leaders in this highly-connected, and people-oriented world. Time and again I help people identify and clarify the system they are working and operating within, BEFORE we coach…

Blending Experience, Trust and Authenticity in Leadership

By Kate Brassington

Published by Kate Brassington on 02/02/24 on LinkedIn. Have you ever wanted a kitchen table natter with a really approachable, but super effective person, to ask them “but hang on, how did you do that”? Well that is exactly what I got to do with Brigadier Clare Phillips CBE, and the result is this week’s…