Leading with Love: How Parenting Shaped My Leadership

In this blog, Bobby talks about her parenting journey from stepmother to mother and onwards to aunting and grandparenting. She talks with vulnerability about all she has learnt; the messes, the wrong turns and above all the developing love and relationships. This is for all of us who put ourselves under so much pressure to always have the parenting answers at our fingertips. Read on!

Tired of Being Tired? Rethinking Sleep as a Leadership & Life Skill

In this blog, Bobby talks about the hidden power of sleep. Why we wear exhaustion like a badge of honour and how that’s holding us back. From leadership to creativity, decision-making to emotional resilience, rest is the game-changer we’re ignoring. Bobby shares personal insights, science-backed facts, and practical strategies to help you rethink sleep as a leadership and life skill. Read on!

Catalysts of Change: The 1% We Can Be Every Day

Bobby talks about the 1% changes she has made to be a catalyst of herself, her family, those she coaches as well as a wider community. She goes on to ask what 1% changes you could make to create a catalyst for change. Little ripples become bigger waves!

Leadership vs Management

Bobby talks about her own experiences of leading, managing, when the lines got blurred and when she blurred then for herself because it felt safer. Safer wasn’t necessarily effective. Have a quick read to find out more.

Bend, Don’t Break: The Art of Resilient Flexibility

Bobby dives deeper into the body’s role in resilience and flexibility. She is a firm believer that when life gets messy, it’s not your mindset that holds you up—it’s your body’s ability to adapt and recover.

Ripple Report - January

Bobby reflects on what Ripples have been occurring during January in line with her word of the year, EXTEND. Where has she found herself Extending into this past month?

Creating a Personal Brand

Bobby talks about her own journey through the evolution of her personal brand whilst also offering advice to others setting out on such an exploration. Keep becoming your brand every day.

A New Chapter in Aging, Leadership, and Life

Having recently read Sharon Blackie’s book “Hagitude”, Bobby talks about how she is exploring her 2nd half of life, what she is learning about herself, what she is learning from others and what organisations perhaps need to consider with a much greater intergenerational workforce

The Power of Successful Followership?

Bobby talks about the interchangeability of Leadership and Followership and that what makes great leaders is the creation of active, engaged followers. She also explores Robert Kelley’s five archetypal followers and fesses up to when she has been less than Exemplary and the reasons why!

Intentional Networker or Chaotic Connector?

Bobby talks about the evolution of her Networking style. She confesses to her anxiety around networking and what practices she is in to overcome this. She also talks about the benefits of finding where networking fits best for you and the much wider variety of networking types now at our disposal.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ): Is That the Right Buzzword?

Bobby talks about Emotional Quotient and her desire for Quotient rather than Intelligence, to allow an exploration for where EQ truly resides - in the body rather than just in the mind, demonstrating this using the Strozzi Institute Model of The Rhythm of Excitement

Being Critical about Criticism: A Journey from Self-Doubt to Self-Assurance

Bobby talks about her tussles dealing with unsolicited feedback or uninvited criticism and the need to learn how to discern what is valuable and what you have every right to move away from without finding yourself believing that everyone else has to offer

The Power of Pivoting: A Personal Journey

Bobby talks about navigating her own career path, the discomfort of change and how she got better at controlling her career pivots along the way. All of which has led her to coaching others and supporting them in their own transitions and pivots.

Embracing Life: Tribute to a Dear Friend

A guide to support the living of a full life. Bobby Davis’ friend was taken far too early by cancer, so in this tribute, Bobby talks about the small moments that can make you feel really alive…love, connecting with others, gratitude.

Whether you call it a mantra, slogan, or motto, is it beneficial to have one?

Well, considering it is "a positive phrase or affirmative statement that you can say to yourself for motivation or encouragement," why wouldn't you?

When I was first developing as a Coach, I engaged in a personal development program with a focus on somatic practices. Why did I need this?….

Does it sound too pompous to use the word legacy? I hope not because what I want is to be proud of my 30+ years in the world of work, the experiences I have had and the skills, knowledge I have gained along the way. I want to share the highs and lows of my experience and what I have learned, to help the next generation of leaders.