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My first difficult moment as a people manager came when I received my first resignation from someone in my team. She felt overworked. I felt terrible. They say that people join companies but leave their manager, don’t they? So where did I fail? Was it the way I expressed my expectations? Did she feel pressured rather than supported? Was it that I did not really listen to her concerns, and so failed to recognise her struggle in time? Or was it something in our team culture tha

When I was a child, my parents used to tell me that "Christmas is a celebration of love and family". Back then what this meant to me was that I was even less allowed to argue with my sister than usual, which I obviously wasn't too happy about. Now as a grown-up, living a thousand miles away from my sister and genuinely missing her company during the holidays, I am finally beginning to understand what my parents meant. While the festive period can easily feel like an invitatio

Legendary American contemporary dancer Martha Graham believed that the core, the centre of the body, was the seat of power and emotion, and that through its movement, dancers could express a wide range of human experience. During my training in contemporary dance, I loved working with the Graham technique. Fortifying my core with every contraction and emanating this power out all the way to my fingertips with every release was a powerful experience of control, strength and st

It was the end of 2019, when I found myself feeling somewhat lost about the direction of my life. To get some guidance, I enrolled in an...

When was the last time you watched trees swaying in the wind? Their branches tossing like human hair, their trunks gently bending, but...