Abundant Leaders with Tenji Moyana

We all have a unique leadership style that best empowers us to be successful at work but so few of us actually discover what it is as truly leverage it. Authentic Power is the second key in my Abundant Leadership framework and it’s all about discovering your unique leadership blueprint and applying it to your career with intention and unapologetic gusto. We each have a responsibility to ensure tha...

Leadership is a performance sport. It takes focus to deliver long complex projects. It takes clarity to make swift, clear decisions without a lot of information. It takes emotional grounding and maturity to stabilise a team in crisis. It takes endurance to work against tight deadlines late into the night and weekend. How are you supporting yourself to show up at your best? Is your current way of w...

Who is in the driver’s seat of your career – you, or your fear, insecurity and limiting beliefs about the world? So many of us, myself included, have been conditioned to believe things that do not support us to build the careers we truly want and show up as leaders in a way that helps us to have the impact we desire. I call these rogue beliefs – mental agents that operate quietly in the background...

All of us want abundance – growth, confidence, security, fulfilment and a sense of living our purpose. And while many of us have careers and leadership roles that look good on paper, the feeling of flow, expansiveness, sustainability and deep meaning is elusive. Work feels hard, leadership feels complicated, and we don’t feel truly successful. Following hundreds of sessions with coaching clients o...

We’ve been together for 2 years through 50 episodes on the Abundant Leaders Podcast. Thank you so much for being with me in this amazing journey! I’ve learned so much about trusting my voice, showing up authentically, speaking about what I think truly matters rather than what is conventionally focussed on, and having the courage to do it my way. Through critical illness, format changes, experiment...

50. Don't wait for motivation: A better way to achieve more   Many of us get to mid-year and run into a slump. We haven’t achieved the goals we laid out for ourselves nearly as fast or as diligently as we imagined we would when motivation was high in January. What relationship do we have to have with ourselves, with motivation and productivity expectations, or with the fear, inertia and resistance...

Today is an informal conversation with my close friend, Warren Ndlovu, about the unconventional path he’s taken to doing the work he loves and the obstacles he’s overcome along the way. Warren is an early-stage climate tech strategy and operations executive with a background in derivatives structuring at Absa, management consulting at McKinsey & Company, and fintech and telecoms at Econet Glob...

As we mature as leaders, people increasingly look to us for caring, empathy, a sense that they matter and are being managed in a humane way. Indeed, it’s our job to be emotionally intelligent and understand how much the way we treat others impacts their performance and wellbeing and the company’s culture and desirability to prospective hires. But no one talks about caregiver burnout – the burnout...

Today I’m joined by a fellow student from my Harvard days, Susan Lieu – a management consultant turned author, playwright, and performer. She joins us to explore how unhealed intergenerational trauma shapes how we lead, the choices we make in our careers, and our ability to live a life that’s authentic to our values instead of focussed on survival and pleasing our families.  We have a deeply vulne...

Many of us have been raised to believe that hard work, focus, practicality and responsibility are the keys to success. As a society we most celebrate the rags to riches stories that involve grit, resilience and hustle. But what often goes undiscussed is that these great inventors and business mavericks were often following their hearts – or the calls of their soul. The grit etc was in response to...

Change is hard – even when it’s good for us. We often unconsciously resist it for months until it uses suffering to force our hand. Why do we resist it so much and what can we do to help ourselves to better accept the writing on the wall so that we can be decisive, accept a new paradigm, and return to being in flow and, ultimately, on the path of success and abundance? Today I use a live example f...

How do you think about the vision for your career in an ever changing world? When you are constantly evolving, conditions are ever changing and your ability to take action on your goals is sometimes compromised by the limitations of circumstances in our lives, how often do you step back to reassess? Is your true expansive vision or your “rogue” limited vision (e.g., insecurity, fear, lack) running...

Carice Anderson is the Global Head of People Manager Strategy at BlackRock. She is also an executive coach and author of “Intelligence Isn't Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace” . As people of colour, so many of us spend the early part of our careers spinning our wheels because we believe that if we put our heads down, work hard, stay humble and build the right te...

Today’s episode is close to my heart because last year I was in a career winter and it would have helped so much to have realised it sooner so that I could have managed my expectations and leaned into trust. One of the bravest things that we can do as leaders is trust the season we’re in to bring us what we need instead of trying to force it to bring us what we want. Just as Earth moves in seasons...

Join me as we explore a different way to set annual goals. Last year I decided to plan my year based primarily on 4 themes instead of a list of goals and it transformed my growth. I was able to consistently show up to the theme more than I had ever been able to show up in the past for a long list of daily actions. It also brought me more balance to how I managed my energy during the year. Instead...

Get 20% off when you join my year end leadership retreat, Taking Stock: Celebrating and Releasing 2024, before Friday midnight. Use code “LUCKYME” at checkout.   As ambitious high-performance leaders, we often get to the end of the year stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted and carrying all the baggage of our failures, disappointments, and negative emotions into the new year.  From this place we make c...

Get 20% off when you join my year end leadership retreat, Taking Stock: Celebrating and Releasing 2024, before Friday midnight. Use code “LUCKYME” at checkout.   I’m back to the podcast after a brief break for creative rest. This week is an unusual episode. I’m coming to you with a major business update to keep you informed of what is changing in my universe and how you can continue to get support...

Tamara Makoni is the Founder & CEO of Kazuri Consulting. She is an inclusion & culture advisor, facilitator and speaker who helps organisations use diversity, equity and inclusion to empower diverse teams and achieve strategic objectives. Today we explore how we can be more inclusive as leaders by unpacking our pasts and confronting our unconscious biases. As black leaders, we think a lot...

It’s Women’s Month in South Africa and this episode is for the ladies! My fellow female leaders, it is time to heal our relationship with power so that we can rise up and have the influence we are here to have. In my journey as a leader, I have struggled to own my voice, take up space, stand in the spotlight with all eyes on me, and go against the grain. I’ve asked for permission instead of taking...

Audrey Kusambiza Bolo is the Global Talent Acquisition Director for One Acre Fund while moonlighting as a a talent consultant & team well-being coach in her company, Your Truth Coach. She joins us to discuss how to build healthy, happy teams that also perform well. Key to this is distinguishing between management and leadership to help us elevate from being primarily focussed on delivery overs...

Are you ready to have unshakeable confidence in yourself and finally have a breakthrough in the management and leadership challenges you’ve struggled to overcome for ages? The scientifically proven fields of neuroscience and epigenetics have given us the hacks of the century!  Neuroscience has proven that, through the power of our words, we can rewire our brains to change how we think and approach...

Marika Messager is a consciousness researcher, teacher, advisor, and the founder of ConsciousLeadership.org. She was previously Head of Cash Equities at Société Générale. She joins us to discuss what conscious leadership is and how it helps us to bring more of our humanity to how we lead. We talk about letting go of outdated leadership archetypes and returning to a place of quiet confidence in our...

If you’re anything like me, you’ve fallen into the trap of believing that your purpose is something that you do or achieve when you’re in a great job doing work that you’re passionate about. But what happens when you’re doing work that you’re passionate about but you aren’t happy? Or you build your whole identity around what you do and something unexpected like chronic illness or parenthood fundam...

My next guest, Marjorie Ngwenya, is a leadership coach, author and speaker and is a former executive at both Liberty Group South Africa and Old Mutual’s African operations. She was both the youngest and first black female President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the United Kingdom. She broke down her own internal barriers to embrace and subsequently thrive in her appointment and now...

We all want to feel great in our careers. We want influence, opportunities, confidence, satisfaction, a sense of achievement, purpose. We want abundance. But it can feel hard to really grasp. What does abundance mean? Is it even possible in a world that seems to have finite resources? I’m discovering on my own path that abundance is not something we get from outside, it’s something we create from...