Whenever I find myself ruminating about what’s happened, where we are, and what’s in store for us, the 13th-century poet Rumi seems to arrive, filtering into my awareness. I thought I’d share ten pops of wisdom worth contemplating as we head into the new year. Feel free to download these now, or come back for inspiration when you need it (link below). All that’s left for me to do is thank you for your wonderful connection, insight, and support this year - and to wish you the best year yet in 202...
Dec 31, 2024•56 sec
If you’ve been thinking about AI and how it will impact your job and your future - and let’s face it, who hasn’t - you may find yourself turning to an AI personal companion for advice and support in 2025. I’ve been tracking the rise of AI learning, coaching, mentoring and emotional and mental support apps over the last couple of years with great interest. Most are still clunky and/or siloed, and best used superficially - with a pinch of salt! It was only a matter of time before we saw the releas...
Dec 23, 2024•2 min
Lead Into the Future Today (LIFT) is brought to you by Louise Mowbray of Mowbray by Design , the creative Conscious Leadership Consultancy. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, you can do so here: This week I thought I would expand on a perilous trap we’re all guilty of falling into, which is all about shutting down our natural curiosity when we think we know something. From a leadership perspective, we’re not talking about honing a skill, technical knowledge or expertise. This typ...
Aug 24, 2021•6 min
Lead Into the Future Today (LIFT) is brought to you by Louise Mowbray of Mowbray by Design, the creative Conscious Leadership Consultancy. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, you can do so here: What on earth is a Complexity Advisor? I recently came across one of the most intriguing job titles I’ve seen in a while: Complexity Advisor . I have to confess, my first reaction wasn’t terribly enthusiastic - it was more along the lines of “not another crazy job title”. However, it staye...
Jun 21, 2021•7 min
Lead Into the Future Today (LIFT) is brought to you by Louise Mowbray of Mowbray by Design, the creative Conscious Leadership Consultancy. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, you can do so here: The soul of great leadership has always been a little mystical. Why? Because the only way to define or measure outstanding leadership is to discover why people follow one another and to measure some sort of return on this. And the return could be in any form - political power, social impac...
Apr 25, 2021
Lead Into the Future Today (LIFT) is brought to you by Louise Mowbray of Mowbray by Design, the creative Conscious Leadership Consultancy. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, you can do so here: If you’ve been receiving my newsletters for a while now, you’ll notice a fresh new format from here on in. At least once a month, I’ll be digging more deeply into various topics to give you insight, which I trust you’ll find useful in your day-to-day business life. I’ll also be recording t...
Apr 13, 2021•15 min
Today I'm talking to Stan Stalnaker, Founding Director of Hub Culture, the conscious social network with over 50,000 global members. Since its inception, Hub Culture has produced over fifty pop-up locations in cities around the world with over 70,000 hosted guests, introduced virtual reality environments, interviewed thousands of cultural and business leaders, and launched integrated financial services around Ven. I wanted to talk to Stan about what Hub Culture is up to today, his recent visit t...
Mar 14, 2020•43 min
Today I’m talking to Tanner Methvin who has worked in the field of Social Innovation for the last 20 years assisting private, public and not-for-profit organisations to build a more environmentally conscious, socially just and abundant world. Tanner is a Partner at Impact Amplifier, a Director of Earth Capital and sits on several boards. He originally hails from Los Angeles and moved to Cape Town in 1998, where he is now based. I wanted to talk to Tanner to understand more about the social enter...
Dec 05, 2019•50 min
In this episode of LIFT, I talk to Dr Jan Bellermann, Founder of the Conscious Leadership Academy in Munich, Germany. Jan is an international Keynote Speaker, Trainer and Coach on the big topics of conscious leadership and values-driven cultures. I recently met Jan at the Conscious Companies event on Conscious Leadership and Ethics in Johannesburg, South Africa where we were both invited to speak - Jan delivered an inspiring keynote and I wanted to learn more about his journey so far… If you enj...
Nov 14, 2019•44 min
Mathieu Cocquillon, Co-Founder of Mama Money, Africa's first cashless money transfer system talks about why he and his business partner, Raphael Grojnowski started the business, their journey so far and how Mamma Money is touching the lives and effecting the wallets of millions of people across Africa and beyond. If you enjoyed this episode, check out the show notes, relevant links and more here: https://www.mowbraybydesign.com/lift-mathieu-coquillon/ This is a public episode. If you would like ...
Oct 10, 2019•33 min
Lead Into the Future Today (LIFT) is brought to you by Louise Mowbray of Mowbray by Design, the creative Conscious Leadership Consultancy. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, you can do so here: You’ve probably been hearing a lot about trends, futures and foresight and in this episode of LIFT, I share 3 Simple Steps for you to work with to "think like a futurist" and consciously create your desired future, in the context of your career and business. You’ll find a downloadable .pdf...
Sep 08, 2019•9 min
Lead Into the Future Today (LIFT) is brought to you by Louise Mowbray of Mowbray by Design, the creative Conscious Leadership Consultancy. If you’re reading this and haven’t yet subscribed, you can do so here: I had a great conversation with Charlotte Kemp, Futurist and Speaker about her brand new book, Futures Alchemist , A Journey of Discovery to Co-Create Preferred Futures. Charlotte advocates “Conscious Futures Thinking”. She loves exploring the origin and natural destination of changes in b...
Sep 01, 2019•43 min
