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Weekly newsletters on workplace happiness and career transition from executive coach, Lucy Caldicott
Starting anyway
A year ago I pressed record in a room in my house and talked to the camera on the back of my phone. This week marks twelve months of that channel, and what I've learned has very little to do with YouTube.
What we're capable of building
Beauty doesn't happen by accident, and neither does cruelty. Both take organising. So why are workplaces so often organised for burnout rather than for thriving?
Working things out in public
Lucy Caldicott shares her coaching philosophy in progress: full service to clients, no fixed models, and equity in the foundations.
Single point of failure
What happens when a leader keeps their team from connecting with each other? This week I'm thinking about divide and rule, and what it costs.
The leader who made themselves unnecessary
This week's newsletter is about humility in leadership, and what geese can teach us about who gets to be at the front.
Read the room (before you sign the contract)
The comments on my job interview red flags video haven't stopped. Hundreds of them. People sharing stories of phrases they ignored, gut feelings they overrode, and years they spent paying the price.
Who gets the new jobs?
Sixty percent of today's jobs didn't exist in 1940. It's the stat everyone cites to say AI will be fine. But there's a part of the story that tends to get left out, and it matters for everyone who cares about equity.
We were meant to do this together
Belonging isn't a team away day or a diversity dashboard. It's something older and more fundamental than that. And most workplaces are working against it.
When Leaders Stop Asking
When leaders stop asking questions, they don't just lose information. They lose the plot entirely.
One hundred days in
We're more than one hundred days into 2026. I saw someone's post about all their achievements so far this year and immediately felt inadequate. A hundred days sounds like a long time and also not very long. Long enough for a plan to have lost its