World Mental Health Day is 10 October. A practical plan for HR and leaders: before, on and after the day, and how to make it more than a poster.

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2025: engagement at 21%, managers falling fastest, a third of people thriving. What leaders and HR must do now.

What Philip Zimbardo’s work on power, systems and stress means for leaders today: compassion over control, and the environments we create.

People are struggling, not always visibly. A blunt guide for leaders: better questions, the early signals, and why “my door is open” doesn’t cut it.

Your middle managers are firefighting, and so are you. How to develop managers in 20 minutes a week, without a leadership programme.

No shouting, no insults, yet you feel smaller after every conversation. The subtle difference between healthy and toxic communication, and how to respond.

Back to school, back to work, back to the endless list. Why trying to manage everything perfectly drains you, and small ways to let go.

You swallow it, smile, and then explode at the wrong person. Why women learn to hide anger, what it turns into, and how to use it well.

Your life looks fine, so why don't you feel happy? Feeling stuck in your career at 40 or 50, and how to work out what you want next.

Burnout rarely starts with a collapse. The early signs in high-achieving women: irritability, small things feeling huge, not feeling like yourself.