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.

Who is talking for you when you’re not in the room? careershift

A key question I posed to a client today while discussing their visibility and profile: Who is talking for you when you’re not in the room?

In organisations, talent and career-impacting decisions often happen behind closed doors. Promotions, opportunities, and high-profile assignments are frequentl...

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Creating Capacity: Setting Yourself Up for the Week Ahead creating capacity

How do you give yourself a headstart for the week ahead?

In our household, Sunday late afternoon is prep time. We meal prep and get everything ready for the week ahead—school bags, work essentials, and healthy grab-and-go options for busy weekdays. It’s not about perfection; it’s about easing the p...

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Let Go of Limiting Beliefs: Choose Growth creating capacity leading women

You’ve grown. You’ve changed. You’ve evolved. You’re more capable now than you were before.

So why hold on to beliefs that no longer serve you?

Limiting beliefs—those stories we tell ourselves about what we can’t do or who we’re not—are often outdated, irrelevant, or just plain untrue. Yet, we cli...

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Play to Your Strengths creating capacity

What do you need to achieve this year?

Take a moment to reflect:

  • What’s on your To-Do list?
  • What’s on your To-Be list?

Playing to your strengths is one of the most effective ways to create capacity. When you focus on what you do best—your natural talents and abilities—you move through challe...

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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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Spend more Moments in the Moment creating capacity recharge

I get it—busy, busy, busy. Every moment filled, rushing from one thing to the next, hoping for a sliver of peace and quiet. Balancing everyone else’s needs while trying to carve out just a little time for yourself.

It’s exhausting, isn’t it?

Here’s today’s challenge: how can you spend more moments...

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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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