tonight, Friday night and I have had about 6 hours of broken sleep in 36 hours and am facing another 60 hours on call… my motivation is heading south
Category: leadership
Learnings from 2 years and 4 landscapes
Three years ago my life took a left turn down an unfamiliar path, sometimes stony, cold and lonely and others times bathed in sunlight, full of love and warmth. This path has felt worn but at the same time narrow and one lane.
Creating a unicorn
how to sell your professional self is a critical part of business success and one that needs practise, practise and more practise
Being enough
It’s my three month anniversary of being in Antarctica and it feels like it has passed super quickly. I have seen some amazing things over the last few months. I’ve flown across oceans full of floating ice-bergs. Sat next to penguins and seals and watched in awe as pods of wild orca’s cruise past. I’ve…
ANZAC day
It is the ANZAC day long weekend, and this year I can’t remain completely unknowledgeable or ambivalent because I have to take the dawn service. I never truly engaged with the ANZAC story or really gave it much thought until a few years ago when two events happened, first I moved to the middle east…
creating a community
When you are given a brand new team of people to work with it is sometimes hard, they have history, connections, unspoken values and communication pathways all mapped out. You have to negotiate and tread softly until you bed in your power relationships, make the connections that you need and learn who is who. But what if you…
Communication is easier to say then do
Communication is an art form and those people who seem to effortlessly raise and discuss difficult topics while causing minimal angst or offence have always been slightly awe inspiring to me. There are several different types of conversation but I dread most are those conversations that you know you should have, the ones were the outcome is…
Looking forward
On reflection this 15 months in Saudi Arabia has taken a long time to pass, I feel like I have been here forever. I’ve missed 2 winters and one summer at home. I’ve missed my flowering cherries and the clouds of pink blossoms. I’ve missed planting my tomato’s early enough to get a head start on…
12 months in Saudi Arabia
I am on the final countdown, after 15 months of living in the sand-pit I’ve got 14 days to go. My first adventure living overseas on my own. I feel a little flat……. Not sure why. I don’t feel like I’ve seen enough, experienced enough or sucked enough out of this experience. I think I…
Jen Wressell 