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Within Reach

Within Reach is a weekly leadership newsletter offering reflections, stories, and a free journal reflection page to help you lead with clarity, connection, and courage.

Trust is hard to build and quick to fade. But it doesn’t have to stay lost. When roles shift, relationships often do too. If you’ve recently stepped into a more senior role, you might have noticed the dynamic with your team feels… different. A little more formal. A little less open.Maybe you’ve f...

Apr 25, 2025

Making Sense of the Mess

Ever feel like it’s not just your job that’s heavy, it’s everything? The economy. The climate. The injustices.And somehow, we’re still expected to show up, lead, and deliver. But underneath the meetings and momentum, there’s a quieter truth:Many of us are carrying more than we realise.Not just in...

Apr 18, 2025

Leading with Humanity in Crisis: A Leadership Reflection

In the middle of a typhoon response, I remember standing in a crowded office. Communications were patchy, roads were blocked, and the days were long. We had urgent tasks: getting supplies out, coordinating assessments. But what stays with me isn’t just what we did. It’s how we did it. One of my t...

Apr 15, 2025

Leaving the Place That Felt Like Home

In humanitarian work and in any high-intensity setting, relationships can form quickly and deeply.You meet in a crisis. You rely on each other through long nights and hard decisions in spaces far beyond the task list. You see each other at your most undone and most alive.And in all of that, it do...

Apr 10, 2025

The Things No One Tells You About Leaving a Role You Loved

A reflection for those navigating identity, grief, and gentle beginnings in the wake of career change. After I left a role I’d held for years, a friend said something that unlocked something in me: “It sounds like you’re grieving.” They were right.I wasn’t just leaving a job. I was letting go o...

Apr 03, 2025

The Weight of Change: Leading with Care When Teams Are Exhausted

There are times when change feels clear. Even purposeful. And then there are the times when it doesn’t. When change becomes relentless, layered, prolonged, and unpredictable, it wears people down.Not just physically, but emotionally, relationally, and morally. I’ve been speaking to leaders who ar...

Mar 26, 2025

Leading When You Don’t Have All the Answers

There are times in leadership when the path ahead feels clear.And there are times when it doesn’t. You might be in one of those moments right now, when clarity feels hard to come by.The future of your role, your team, or your organisation may be shifting.Perhaps you’re in the middle of a transiti...

Mar 19, 2025

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