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Within Reach is a weekly leadership newsletter offering reflections, stories, and a free journal reflection page to help you lead with clarity, connection, and courage.

When titles fall away, leadership remains

The role you once held may no longer exist.The question now is where you want to lead from here.For many purpose-driven professionals, the work itself hasn't lost meaning.But the structures that once shaped the work are shifting.Funding is tighter. Roles are being restructured. Teams are dissolvi...

Jun 11, 2025

How Do You Want to Be Noticed

You've been doing all the things we all think we should be doing.Updating your LinkedIn. Polishing your CV.Maybe even rewriting your summary for the third time this week. And still, it feels like you're not being seen.Not in the way that matters to find you your next career... not just your next ...

Jun 06, 2025

Waiting is Human. Choosing is Power.

Ever found yourself circling a decision?It's easy to wait, especially when the next step feels unclear, or your confidence has taken a hit.This week’s newsletter explores what’s behind the hesitation and how to spot when waiting has turned into hiding. In coaching sessions lately, I've heard vers...

May 30, 2025

Signs You're Growing (Even If Your Team Feels Distant)

Some of the hardest leadership moments don't feel like growth.They feel like friction. This week, I'm writing for those of you who stayed. The ones still in your role, still in the team, but with everything around you shifted. A restructure may have changed the team shape, reporting lines, or pur...

May 23, 2025

Burnout with a Conscience

This isn't burnout from doing too much.It's burnout from staying true to your values in a system that no longer reflects them. Lately, in coaching conversations, I’ve been hearing a particular kind of exhaustion. Not just stress. Not just overwork. But the slow erosion that comes from continuing ...

May 16, 2025

What Do You Hold When Everything Is Shifting?

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from staying composed while everything beneath you is shifting. Lately, in coaching conversations, a familiar question keeps surfacing: “What do I hold onto when everything around me is shifting?” For some, it’s a restructure. For others, it’s ...

May 09, 2025

Have you ever been ghosted?

You apply for a job.You put time into a thoughtful proposal.You show up with presence for a discovery call. And then… silence. No response. No update. Just a quiet void where something once felt possible. I have witnessed this in my own journey, and even more so in the experiences of the people I...

May 01, 2025

Have You Drifted From Your Team?

Trust is hard to build and quick to fade. But it doesn’t have to stay lost. When roles shift, relationships often do too. If you’ve recently stepped into a more senior role, you might have noticed the dynamic with your team feels… different. A little more formal. A little less open.Maybe you’ve f...

Apr 25, 2025

Making Sense of the Mess

Ever feel like it’s not just your job that’s heavy, it’s everything? The economy. The climate. The injustices.And somehow, we’re still expected to show up, lead, and deliver. But underneath the meetings and momentum, there’s a quieter truth:Many of us are carrying more than we realise.Not just in...

Apr 18, 2025

Leading with Humanity in Crisis: A Leadership Reflection

In the middle of a typhoon response, I remember standing in a crowded office. Communications were patchy, roads were blocked, and the days were long. We had urgent tasks: getting supplies out, coordinating assessments. But what stays with me isn’t just what we did. It’s how we did it. One of my t...

Apr 15, 2025

Leaving the Place That Felt Like Home

In humanitarian work and in any high-intensity setting, relationships can form quickly and deeply.You meet in a crisis. You rely on each other through long nights and hard decisions in spaces far beyond the task list. You see each other at your most undone and most alive.And in all of that, it do...

Apr 10, 2025

The Things No One Tells You About Leaving a Role You Loved

A reflection for those navigating identity, grief, and gentle beginnings in the wake of career change. After I left a role I’d held for years, a friend said something that unlocked something in me: “It sounds like you’re grieving.” They were right.I wasn’t just leaving a job. I was letting go o...

Apr 03, 2025

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