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Apr 25

How to get warm introductions to investors

If you want to find out more about how to optimise your investor outreach sign up to my VC fundraising secrets webinar next week: https://lnkd.in/d6FwDG3E A referral is always going to give you more relevance, credibility and curiosity than a cold email — no matter what you are trying to achieve. It may seem obvious, because it is, that fundraising is exactly the same. Research your investors, leverage your network, hone your message — at…

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How to get warm introductions to investors
How to get warm introductions to investors

Apr 14

Why Fundraising is a bit like dating

To find out more about the Start Up Dating Game and how to get it right — join me for my webinar. Back in the day I thought I ‘had game’. I would head out into town, put on my ‘mask of superiority, prowess, and arrogance’ and approach unsuspecting prospects…

Fundraising

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Why Fundraising is a bit like dating
Why Fundraising is a bit like dating

Published in Planet First Leadership

·Feb 21

How to create an Accountability Culture

When we’re in the frenzy of building our start ups, we always obsess over the product and customer seeking that external validation of what we’re building or trying to achieve. …

Leadership

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How to create an Accountability Culture
How to create an Accountability Culture

Published in Planet First Leadership

·Feb 15

Why building an accountability culture is critical to start-up success

When we first start building a company, we have an almost untold number of potential strategies that we can take; which markets to target, how to develop our product, what the value proposition is. And all this optionality means that sometimes as leaders, we chase the shiniest objects that are…

Leadership

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Why building an accountability culture is critical to start-up success
Why building an accountability culture is critical to start-up success

Oct 15, 2021

Conscious Leadership Book Club: 6–15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

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Conscious Leadership Book Club: 6–15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

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Published in Impact Makers Book Club

·Sep 28, 2021

Conscious Leadership Book Club: 5 — Start With Why

“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them.” ― Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action 1 Paragraph Summary: The book of leadership and inspiration. Start with Why shows that leaders who have made the most impact in…

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Published in Impact Makers Book Club

·Sep 10, 2021

Conscious Leadership Book Club: 4 — Dare to Lead

Conscious Leadership Book Club: 4 — Dare to Lead “I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.” ― Brene Brown, Dare to Lead 1 Paragraph Summary: This is a must-read for those wanting to show…

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Published in Impact Makers Book Club

·Aug 2, 2021

Conscious Leadership Book Club: 3 — Doughnut Economics

““Here’s the conundrum: No country has ever ended human deprivation without a growing economy. And no country has ever ended ecological degradation with one.” .” ― Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics 1 Paragraph Summary: This is one of my favourite books to really dive deep into the future of economics within sustainability! Doughnut Economics…

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Published in Planet First Leadership

·Jul 15, 2021

Onboarding Amazing Talent

When it comes to hiring, most of us Start-Up leaders need to have hired someone…” like yesterday”…panic that we need the person now, we need them to start hitting the ground running, and we hope and pray that they are a ‘self-starter’ with ‘initiative’ that doesn’t need a long onboarding…

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Published in Impact Makers Book Club

·Jul 15, 2021

Impact Makers Book Club: 2 - Emotional Agility by Susan David

Impact Makers Book Club: 2 - Emotional Agility by Susan David “When we show up fully, with awareness and acceptance, even the worst demons usually back down.” - Susan David, Emotional Agility About the Author Susan David is a founder of the Harvard/McLean Institute of Coaching, is on faculty at Harvard Medical School…

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