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Thinking about my life from my early childhood years on, I can see that I learned about leadership from many different sources and situations. It's probably the same for everyone. Think about the people who have been your mentors. Equally, there were probably people whose actions and conduct showed you how not to lead. We can learn from them too.

My leadership style is based primarily on encouragement. At Speakers Institute, we aim to encourage and empower people, and it all starts with the language we use. For example, when our opinion is sought, we start by offering positive reinforcement before putting forward our suggestions. We might advise, ‘Be faithful with the small’, or ‘The best is yet to come’, or ‘It's time to shine.’

We truly believe in people, and we show this in both our words and our actions. This applies to everyone we come into contact with, especially our colleagues. We start every team meeting by acknowledging one another. We then talk about any incompletes and discuss ways to set them right, so we can all move on.

We lead and manage by taking into account the three greatest human fears: the fear of not being loved, the fear of not being good enough and the fear of not belonging. We find ways to overcome those fears so that we and the people around us can flourish.