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When Leadership Fails: Lessons from OpenAI’s Misstep
The Only Thing Worse Than No Leadership is Poor Leadership – A Lesson in Executive [...]
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When Those with Less Give More: A Leadership Lesson for Us All
Walking in Each Other’s Shoes – The Power of Selfless Leadership and Inclusion
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From Awareness to Action: Making Inclusion a Priority
Inclusion in 2025 – Why Inclusive Leadership is More Important Than Ever
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How to Increase Team Engagement Through Inclusion?
Discover how inclusive leadership fosters team satisfaction, collaboration, and business success.
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From Potential to Leadership: Unlocking True Talent
Leadership is not about being born to lead - it’s about being found and empowered. [...]
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From Division to Togetherness: The Leadership Shift
From Belfast to business – discover how leadership development thrives when we embrace unity, shared [...]
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Leading Through Uncertainty
Uncertain times demand emotionally intelligent, courageous leadership. Discover how inclusive leadership development helps navigate change [...]
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Knowing When to Step Aside
True leadership means knowing when to step aside. Discover how self-awareness and courage shape leadership [...]
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From Compliance to Commitment: The Power of Inclusive Leadership
Inclusive leadership goes beyond compliance - it’s about fostering true belonging, trust, and commitment. Discover [...]
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Why Authentic Leaders Build Stronger, More Inclusive Teams
Authenticity in leadership fosters inclusive, high-performing teams. Discover how authentic leaders cultivate trust, innovation, and [...]
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Exclusion Hurts, Inclusion Heals – Why Leadership Must Unite, Not Divide
Leadership is about inclusion, not division. Discover why exclusion damages trust and performance, and how [...]
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Extraordinary Times Demand Extraordinary Leadership
Leadership is evolving. Discover how inclusive, empathetic leadership drives progress and innovation in a rapidly [...]
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Building A Special Team
As the old adage goes, time flies when you are having fun. It is amazing [...]
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René Receives Honorary Doctorate
Education Is The Passport There is a time in our lives when we don’t quite [...]
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Who Are You Listening To
Who Are You Listening To? As the late great Maya Angelou reminded us, “Not everyone [...]
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Why Inclusion Matters To This CEO
Why Inclusion Matters To This CEO Leading a team is never about the glory of [...]
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Change Is Your Choice
Change Is Your Choice Ever since the tragedy of George Floyd last year, I have [...]
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Everybody Deserves A Voice
Everybody Deserves A Voice London is not your city or my city, it is everybody’s [...]
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Clarity, Certainty and Hope
Clarity, Certainty and Hope Many have spoken about VUCA times, where it all becomes Volatile, [...]
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How To Handle Failure
You Lost, You Failed. What’s Next? Losing and Failing. Something we all experience in our [...]
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Talent – How to Have it and How to Keep it
It’s Harder Now than it’s Ever Been There are a huge and growing number of [...]
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Innovation for Continuation
Planning for the Future I had the privilege of being the host, compere and MC [...]
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Destination Johannesburg
Retreating from the chaos Sometimes it takes a serious and vital deadline to bring the [...]
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Leaders and Mentors
Preparing the Youth Lilian Baylis School in Lambeth, south London was regarded by many as [...]
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Soft Power is Smart Power
It’s More Than Academia I had just finished my address to the gathered officers of [...]
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Leading from the Front
A Generational Leadership Shift PPS – Izak Smit Another fascinating trip to Johannesburg led me [...]
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The Squandering of Soft Power
A New Age of Leadership There was a time when the people worked for the [...]
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Older Doesn’t Mean Better
Leadership Through the Dip Exceptional times demand exceptional leadership. And make no mistake about it, [...]
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Higher and Higher
5 Ways to Create an Inclusive Culture The technology division of Vodafone, like far too [...]
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The Illusion of Inclusion
We Don’t See Things The Same I was meeting Priyanka’s mother for the first time, [...]
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Where’s Rene?
BBC Children in Need Having worked with The Executive Team of BBC Children in Need [...]
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Do Some of Your Employees Feel Invisible?
How to inspire and motivate your workforce Diversity and inclusion appear to be back in [...]
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On the Journey to Diversity
African Development Bank Back in Abidjan, Ivory Coast with the African Development Bank (AfDB), I [...]
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Emotionally Unintelligent
Theresa May has been cruelly nicknamed the Maybot, for her robotic and unemotional responses to [...]
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Do the Right Thing
Not Every Negative Action is Worth a Negative Reaction It was another typical winter morning [...]
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Women and Leadership – Part 2
Role Models Empower In my previous article [https://carayol.com/women-and-leadership-2/] we examined the interesting and instructive article [...]
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Women and Leadership – Part 1
Khanyi Makwala had been amazing to work with. No task was too small and no [...]
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Engagement – Trump Does It His Way
From the moment Donald J Trump threw his hat into the ring to be nominated [...]
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Engagement – The 2018 World Cup
A couple of years ago, I was privileged enough to have the opportunity to interview [...]
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Here’s £5,000 Now Quit
Modern Engagement - best practice to next practice. Amazon have a completely different form of [...]
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Empowering Engagement
Whilst running a Boot Camp for all the African Development Bank’s Young Professionals (a newly [...]
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The Chief Engagement Officer
The days of the aloof but brilliant CEO, spending most of their time in long [...]
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Spike! The Power and Simplicity of the Strengths based Revolution
During this webinar interview with Catherine of MBA World, I explore the reasons why the [...]
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The Secret Rules of Engagement
How we ensure that employees are encouraged to do their best every day is Employee [...]
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The Leadership Void
I had the privilege of being invited to compere a really important and well thought [...]
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Reputations Don’t Die – People Destroy Them
The Falling Of Oxfam? Oxfam has fought hard to make so many disadvantaged people’s lives [...]
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Good Receptions Create Strong Connections
I had just arrived at the ‘Gherkin’ building in the City of London. I was [...]
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The Unwelcome Reception
Some years ago, I was invited to give a leadership talk at Marks and Spencer [...]
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Nothing Beats a Warm Reception
The Home Advantage Before accepting any assignment, we always endeavour to spend 30 minutes in [...]
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Facing Down Your Boss
Cyril Ramaphosa’s Challenge – The Real Work Starts Now You really have to want to [...]
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Ramaphosa’s Modern And Contemporary Leadership
Our Youngers and Betters (Part 4) Maybe, ‘born free’ of the past is precisely what [...]
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New Age Leaders
Our Youngers and Betters (part 3) Africa is becoming the unavoidable inflexion point of a [...]
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It’s Time to Skip a Generation
Our Youngers and Betters (part 2) The polarisation and tribalisation in today’s politics exacerbates a [...]
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Our Youngers and Betters (part 1)
New Dawn for South Africa? It was truly a momentous occasion at the recent ANC’s [...]
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Young, Gifted and Blocked
From Job Seekers to Job Creators As an early morning ‘ice breaker’ for our Leadership [...]
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Building a World Where Everybody Works Less for More Money
Work Smarter, Not Harder During a recent heated debate about annual leave with the executives [...]
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Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
We all Need Something Positive to Believe In There are some moments in recent history [...]
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Extraordinary Times Demand Extraordinary Leadership
Managers Can Lead We were by the extraordinarily beautiful Lake Malawi, it was November 2016, [...]
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The Changing Role of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
The Technocrat There was a time not so long ago when the CFO was purely [...]
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Leadership is an Art Not a Skill
Leadership is no longer about rank or hierarchy. It’s about who can influence and persuade [...]
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Collaboration is the New Leadership
Nothing is Best Done Alone Anymore Business has become far too fast moving and markets [...]
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Leaders Never Stop Practicing
On arrival, late in the evening at Copenhagen airport in Denmark, we looked forward to [...]
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What Does Britain Want In A Political Leader?
The insightful results from the recent BritainThinks survey is worth looking at from a slightly [...]
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The Nasty Leader
The Killer Flaws of a Political Leader The recently published book, Betting the House: The [...]
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Be The Leader You Want to Follow
[bctt tweet=”Be The Leader You Want to Follow” username=”renecarayol”] Change is hitting every business like [...]
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The Only Way is Ethics
We were always taught that Public Relations (PR) was the “the truth told well”. The [...]
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I’m Getting Myself Out of My Way
My daughter and I were looking forward to watching the climax of the World Athletics [...]
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I’m live at BAFTA and here’s how you can win a ticket
I’ll be talking about the power of strengths based leadership on Tuesday 31st October at the prestigious [...]
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“Getting Engaged”
Mission Impossible As the White House doors continually swing open to eject another ‘failed’ communications [...]
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Girls Get Spike Best
I had agreed to deliver a ten-minute address taken from my new book, Spike, to [...]
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Why Mothers are Today’s Best Leaders
“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed [...]
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SPIKE is Here!
Over the last few months, I’ve been planting my “SPIKE” seeds wherever I go around [...]
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Welcome to Spike. This Book is all about YOU!
Be careful when reading Spike – it might just change your life for the better. [...]
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The Return of the Big Men
Sitting in the sun, near the aisle at a good friend’s outdoor wedding in Palm [...]
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