The Pile on My Bedside Table

The Pile on My Bedside Table

The Five Shifts · Installment 2 of 5: From information to formation There is a pile of books on my bedside table that has taken on a life of its own. Each one arrived with good intentions. A speaker mentioned something in a talk and it stayed with me. A colleague...
Coaching in all seasons of life, with Sharon Tomkins

Coaching in all seasons of life, with Sharon Tomkins

if you asked Sharon Tomkins to describe coaching in one word, she would have to choose hopeful. When she talks about coaching, she doesn’t begin with techniques or leadership frameworks. She talks about people finding the courage to take one small step forward. For...
The Integrity Clash

The Integrity Clash

The Five Shifts · Instalment 1 of 5: From performing credibility to embodying it I nearly spoke at a conference last week about caring for leaders while being too unwell to care for myself. What stopped me wasn’t wisdom. It was the integrity clash. Last week I was...

The Leader Who Does Nothing Does Everything

Why the hardest work in leadership doesn’t look like work at all You take a month off. You rest. You pray. Then January arrives, and within days, December feels like another lifetime. Every year for the past decade, I have taken a month off over Christmas. It is...

What If They Don’t Want What We’re Handing Them?

Rethinking Leadership Succession for the Next Generation Last week, we welcomed two new team members to Arrow. Ally and Sharon will be stepping into roles I used to carry, and I find myself caught in a question I didn’t see coming. What do I actually need to...

Looking Ahead: Leadership in a Changing World

As I’ve been reflecting and praying, I’ve been struck again by how quickly the world around us is changing and what that means for the kind of leaders we’re called to form. The next decade will look very different from the last, and by 2035, we’ll be leading in a...