Enabling senior design professionals to be more influential within their organisations. ✨ Author of this human and design character, published by BIS Publishers.📚
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This Human by Melis Senova
Enabling senior design professionals to be more influential within their organisations. ✨ Author of this human and design character, published by BIS Publishers.📚
"Leadership isn’t just about being out in front. Sometimes it’s about knowing when to sit beside someone who’s walked before you." Therapists have supervision. Athletes have coaches. Artists have mentors. So why do so many leaders try to go it alone? This week’s article explores what happens when leaders have a trusted space to reflect, not to perform or impress, but to unpack what’s real. Drawing from my own experience in therapeutic supervision, I share why this kind of relationship is so...
"Leadership is still a deeply personal act. And it’s one we can choose to reimagine, together." Leadership isn’t just evolving, it’s leaping. In this week's article, Melis shares a growing unease: we’re using old models to respond to new realities: polarisation, AI disruptions, climate urgency, collapsing trust in institutions. And these models are manifestly falling short. We still valorise charisma, confidence, control, and performance even when they cost relational maturity, truth, and...
"Emotional intelligence doesn’t just live in individuals. It lives in the space between us." After years of working with groups, I’ve come to see emotional intelligence as a kind of quiet force. When it’s present, things open. Trust builds. People give more of themselves and the work deepens. This week’s article explores what happens when a team brings that kind of emotional awareness into the room. How it creates the conditions for collaboration, clarity, and creativity. And how, when it’s...