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Cognitive Empathy: A Leadership Imperative

In today’s fast-paced and complex work environment, leaders face a critical challenge: how to drive performance while fostering connection, trust, and collaboration. The answer lies in cognitive empathy - the ability to understand how others think and experience the...

Culture as Your Competitive Advantage (and Why Thinking Differently Might Just Save Your Sanity)  

This post is a contribution from Carole Coooper , an HBDI® Certified Practitioner, and Director/Founder of Carole Cooper Consulting . If you’ve ever worked somewhere with a great culture, you feel it the moment you walk in. There’s energy. People...

2025 Guide: How to Improve Workplace Diversity & Inclusion

This article was originally published in 2023  and updated in 2025 to keep our readers up-to-date with the latest in organisational performance and team dynamics. The common perception is that diversity and inclusion is an HR prerogative. But that’s not true....

How to Implement Workplace Change with an Agile Change Management Plan

This article was originally published in 2019 and updated in 2025 to keep our readers up-to-date with the latest in organisational performance and team dynamics. Change is hard. Just ask Netflix’s DVD rental service, DVD.com, which shut down in 2023 after 25 years ....

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Coaching Women Leaders with Whole Brain® Thinking

In a recent Certified Practitioners Workshop, Master Facilitator and Green Leaf Consulting founder, Cynthia Radford discussed the 7 Power Gaps that prevent professional women from achieving their highest potential (researched and written by Kathy Caprino). A power gap...

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The HR landscape is evolving fast, shaped by changing workforce needs and new technology. In 2024 and 2025, businesses are embracing hybrid work setups, innovative AI tools, and a stronger focus on employee well-being. Diversity and inclusion remain at the forefront,...

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High-Performing Teams and Thought Diversity

Few people enjoy conflict. Most of the time, people actually try to avoid it. This is especially true when working in a team. It’s smoother when everyone gets along and goes along. When everyone is coming at an issue from the same angle, it’s much easier to sidestep...

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A Whole Brain® approach to workplace wellbeing

Workplace wellbeing. It’s a term you hear a lot these days. Gone is the cut-throat corporate culture of the eighties and early nineties, where oppressive work environments made you feel like just another cog in the machine. Today’s leaders have recognised that...

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The Most Important Talent Management Idea of 2020

Our bet for the biggest idea in management for 2020? Cognitive diversity. Cognitive diversity is a broad concept, but we define it as the differences in the thinking (i.e. cognition, perspective or information processing styles) that people use to process the world...

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Innovation + Acceleration = Value Creation

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Adrian Jobson, director of Acculture, for just over three years. With a Master of Business, Organisational Change and Consulting, Adrian is a business owner, somatic coach and innovator with an intense curiosity about creating...

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