Strengths Before Strategy – How Knowing Yourself Energises Your Leadership

I have published the first article on my new Substack publication, “Authentically”—a space where I’ll be exploring leadership, authentic self-awareness, strengths-based growth, flow state optimal performance and the kind of values-aligned leadership our communities and organisations truly need.

This opening piece, “Strengths Before Strategy – How Knowing Yourself Energises Your Leadership,” shares the foundation of my personal leadership philosophy. It introduces a simple 3-step framework—Know, Accept, Create—that has guided my own growth, and which I now use to support the leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers I work with.

In a world full of noise and pressure to act, this article is a gentle nudge to pause… and reflect inward first. Because strategy without self-awareness is just performance. And true leadership? It starts from within.

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