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.

Leadershift: A Celebration of Growth and Leadership leadership

The last two days in Canberra have been a whirlwind of reflection, celebration, and meaningful connection. Wrapping up the final sessions of Leadershift programs with both the Executive Team and the Leadership Accelerator groups has been a privilege, culminating in graduation dinners that celebrated...

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When you're the only one in the room leadership leading women

Leadership often feels isolating, but being “the only one in the room” adds a unique layer of complexity. This reflection comes from my time in senior leadership roles in industrial businesses—spaces where representation wasn’t always balanced and where being the only one shaped every dynamic.


Wh...

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Finding Strength in Quiet Leadership leadership mentoring

For those of us who lean toward the quieter, more reflective side of things, navigating a world that often seems built for the louder, more extroverted can feel like an uphill battle.

I have a particular appreciation for working with leaders who embrace quiet strength. These are the individuals who...

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Allow yourself to be where you are creating capacity leadership

Be Where You Are: Balancing Presence and Responsibility

Busy, distracted, balancing the daily demands… Sound familiar? Often, we run from one thing to the next, half-focused on one task while our mind spins on something else. The result? We’re not fully present anywhere, and overwhelm isn’t far beh...

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How to tell if you are burned out and what to do about it leadership recharge

Feeling Exhausted, Detached, or Not Performing Like You Could?

There’s a big difference between feeling tired and being burned out.

Burnout, recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2019 as an occupational phenomenon, stems from chronic workplace stress that hasn’t been successfully ma...

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The importance of doing nothing leadership recharge

As we gradually return to our workplaces, I’m reflecting on how not to squander the reset of the last few months.

Like many of you, I’ve experienced a shift—once the intensity of crisis management eased, I found unexpected pockets of quiet. Moments that would have been spent rushing between meeting...

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Six steps to unlocking the Power of Sleep leadership recharge

Here’s the improved version with mentions of your Recharge Retreat in Byron and Recharge Masterclass seamlessly integrated:


Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

Do you wake up feeling genuinely recharged?

For years, I didn’t. Despite hitting the pillow at what my friends call "Nanna o’clock," the qual...

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