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Why Organisational Change is Personal.
Organisations tend to plan change through strategy, structure, systems and timelines. People experience it through much more personal questions: Where do I fit now? What happens to the work I have built? What will be expected of me? Will I still be able to succeed…
Accelerating Leaders
Leading Has Changed. Has Leadership Development?
Leadership has changed. But many organisations are still developing leaders for a job that no longer exists. Lucinda Quigley explores the growing importance of relational capability and what organisations need to rethink to prepare leaders for today’s reality.
Accelerating Leaders
Why Leadership Feels Heavier Than It Did Five Years Ago
A conversation with Mary-Clare Race, CEO of Talking Talent. Leadership has never been easy. But ask almost any leader today and they'll tell you the role feels fundamentally different than it did just a few years ago.
Climbing Walls: Leadership Pipeline Research
Today’s leaders climb walls – with sideways moves, leaps of faith, and uncertain holds. Our new research reveals why women, caregivers, and early-career professionals face the steepest climb, and how belonging, mentorship, and leadership access can create the secure holds that keep tomorrow’s leaders moving…
Workplace Connection: The Connection Code
What happens when people feel genuinely connected to their work, their leaders, and each other. Today's world is a paradox. We have never had more abundance, yet so many basic human needs feel out of reach. We are hyper-connected through technology, yet more isolated emotionally.…
D&I Leaders Global Workplace Inclusion Forum 2026
Talking Talent is a coaching-led consultancy that helps organisations identify and fix what's holding their talent back. We work with leaders, working parents and returning talent to tackle the structural and behavioural patterns that hold performance back. Whether you're already working with us or exploring…
Resilience for Our Times: Why “Staying Calm” Is the Wrong Goal
What if everything you thought you knew about resilience was making you less resilient? There’s a story many of us know well. A colleague handles a tough project with apparent ease. Another wobbles badly under what looks like manageable pressure. We call the first person…
Talking Talent
Our Rebrand Story
We’re evolving. Because the world of work has. Over the past year, we’ve been listening closely. Listening to our clients, our coaches, and the people in our programmes.
Connection
Getting to Better: Five Strategies For Encouraging Belonging in the Workplace
One of the quirks of enabling belonging in the workplace is that it is obvious and challenging, but not obviously challenging. As a result, the importance and urgency of working to develop belonging are often overlooked or ignored by an organization’s leadership.
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