What Matters Most

Explore Meredith’s reflections, writings, and insights on leadership, culture, and the shifts shaping the future of work. Discover hacks, habits, and shifts that help leaders create cultures worth belonging to, work worth doing, and become leaders worth following.

What Matters Most

Explore Meredith’s reflections, writings, and insights on leadership, culture, and the shifts shaping the future of work. Discover hacks, habits, and shifts that help leaders create cultures worth belonging to, work worth doing, and become leaders worth following.

The Power of Connection: It’s Who You Know careershift creating capacity

It’s not just what you know—it’s who you know. Who you spend time with, who you associate with, and who you make time to connect with.

In this hyper-connected world, it’s easy to feel like you’re keeping up with friends through glimpses of their lives on social media. But let’s be honest: a feed is...

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Name It to Tame It: The First Step to Moving Forward creating capacity

Whether you’re peeking under the rug where you’ve swept life’s challenges or diving straight into the deep end, one thing is clear: before you can move forward, you need to label what’s holding you back.

Name it. By giving it a name, you transform the mess into something tangible—something you can ...

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Take the Win: Small Wins Matter creating capacity

Some days are tougher than others. Some days are slower. But every day has something worth celebrating.

Take the win. Every win. Even the small ones.

Pause for a moment—breathe it in, look around, and savour it.

Small wins don’t always announce themselves the way big ones do. They’re quieter, eas...

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Sea Salt Seeking: My Recharge Recipe creating capacity recharge

This weekend, I’m heading to the beach—my happy place. A quiet beach offers the perfect combination of nature, stillness, and connection with loved ones. For me, it’s the ideal recipe to recharge.

Most of my recharge rituals involve water—ideally moving water—but saltwater is my clear favourite. Th...

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How we think about things is a choice, a decision creating capacity recharge

We know that how we respond is a choice. But how we think about things? That’s a choice too—a decision we make every day.

Call it mindset, attitude, or something else, but the truth is this: where we allow our thoughts to go, how long they linger, and the quality of what we focus on is within our c...

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Do you start your day by consuming social media? creating capacity

Do you start your day scrolling through social media? It might feel like you’re connecting, but often it delivers little value and leaves your day shaped by other people’s lives instead of your own.

Here’s a simple shift: create before you consume.

Take a moment to focus on something meaningful, l...

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How did it come to this? creating capacity leading women mentoring recharge

"How did it come to this?" she asked, her voice heavy with defeat.

I was speaking with a smart, successful woman—a leader juggling motherhood and a demanding executive role during Melbourne’s COVID lockdown. That day, she was bouncing her two-year-old on her lap, her six-year-old tugging on her eve...

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Putting yourself out there creating capacity leading women

Sometimes, you just need to put yourself out there. I know this—I coach others on it all the time. Yet, I’ll admit that I’ve often found myself stuck in the gap between knowing and doing.

A strong perfectionist streak can hold me back from sharing ideas until I’ve had time to fully deve...

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Start dreaming again creating capacity leading women

 Malcolm Forbes once said, “When you cease to dream, you cease to live.” But as a working mum, who has the time to dream?

For years, I was so focused on juggling work, parenting, and everything else life threw at me that dreaming felt like a luxury I couldn’t afford. Many of my girlfriends have sai...

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