Time to Forge Peace

I was watching an item on the news about taking young people to the places where World War 1 was waged in Europe. When I was a young boy, history was my favourite topic and I learned a great deal from it. Learning about history can help us understand about our past, about ourselves and…

Introducing Beverley Powell

Beverley Powell is a highly qualified Leadership Associate: Organisational development, Inclusion, Coach and Mentor with a proven track record in embedding organisational change. She can design and deliver credible and engaging equality and diversity training that is relevant to the current challenges that a company or organisation is facing. She is able to design specific…

Success and Happiness

I was asked what success and happiness meant to me for a coach conference I was attending. Here’s what I said. I thought you might like it: “To me success is meaningless without fulfilment.  To me fulfilment is the essence of real, lasting happiness – and is the birthplace of meaningful success. This success blossoms from embracing yourself, others and…

Limitless Intentions for Empowered Manifestation

There are different schools of thought about how we should set the goals and intentions we want to manifest. One school of thought says we should define our intention to the smallest detail, another says we should make it more general so we don’t limit the scale of the manifestation. I was pondering this point before…

10 Steps to Establishing Effective Staff Networks

My Top 10 Step Guide to building an effective network that serves and empowers BME staff. Whether you seek to establish a strong network for the first time or are looking to add impetus, engagement or effectiveness to build or develop an existing one you need to be strategic, effective, creative – and also authentic,…

Knowing and Trusting Your Gifts

“See your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic” – Rasheed Ogunlaru Probably two or three years into my work as a coach I discovered something very interesting. Person after person would come and see me to work on their life, career, relationships, confidence, business,…

Adopt the attitude of an athlete

Progressing in your career or business is a lot like being an athlete. To really progress you need drive, dedication, hard work, belief and to put in many hours of training and development to survive and thrive. You need to have the right mindset, approach and strategy. As a life / business coach I’m fascinated by…

Your Life Story

“Our Life stories are at one and the same time part reality, part fallacy and part fantasy” – Rasheed Ogunlaru, Coach – Speaker – Author Your life story is at one and the same time part reality, part fallacy and part fantasy.  What exactly do I mean by that? How can it be that your life…

Fear is Your Friend

Without doubt, fear is perhaps the most misunderstood and paralysing ‘feeling’ that you may wrestle with in life. Sometimes simply because of its name, we feel that we should be afraid of it. But this is not the case. By understanding and being mindful of fear we can actually appreciate it, value it, learn from it…

A Gentle Step Back

“While you’ll feel compelled to charge forward, it’s often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you are and what you truly seek.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru In life we’re pretty much conditioned to constantly be looking ahead, moving ahead. We become restless and impatient. We feel that things are moving too slowly….