Latest article✍️ Wholeness not perfection (embracing complexity in ourselves and our systems) Latest Podcast🎙️ Episode 5 of The Smoosh Podcast What's happening with MelisReading: Listening to: Doing: Pondering: What's happening with BenReading: Listening to: Doing: Pondering: Wishing you a whole lotta wholeness on this mystical day. You've got this. Love,
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"These skills are not the icing on the cake. They are the cake." We call them soft skills, but they’re anything but soft. These are the human skills; the ones that help us listen deeply, navigate tension, build trust, and get things done with style and grace. In this week’s article, we explore why it’s time to stop treating these skills as optional. In a world of AI, rapid change, and rising complexity, human skills are what truly set us apart. Empathy, communication, adaptability; these...
"We cannot lead what we are disconnected from. And we cannot connect unless we slow down enough to feel." We often treat leadership as a cerebral exercise: charts, KPIs, strategy decks. But what if our most profound insights come not from our heads, but from our hearts? This week's article invites us to reconnect with the heart, not just as a metaphor, but as a genuine organ of perception. True leadership arises from attunement, presence, and embodied awareness. When we slow down and listen...
"Living systems don't need micromanagement. They need tending." We often think leadership is about driving outcomes or steering the ship. But what if it’s more like tending a garden? In this week's article, Melis offers a fresh take; leadership as ecology. Instead of pushing harder, it’s about creating the right conditions for growth. Like in nature, thriving doesn’t come from control, but from care, timing, and attention to what’s needed. When leaders focus on the work environment, not just...