Although our conditions have changed, our brains have not completely caught up, and so we are left with similar feelings of panic to the man in the jungle when we are about to give a presentation or about to ask that girl at the bar out for drinks. Our brain still is on the lookout for tigers in the jungle. We all, unless you are an alien, deal with massive fear in our life from time to time. What choice will you make?įear is the ultimate handicap for the human race. However, it seems that whatever we most fear - be it love or truth or even death - we all have this choice, again and again: either to look directly at the fear or to hide from it and pretend it does not exist. I’m scared that I will not be able to provide for my family.įear gets its power from our not looking at either the fear or what we are afraid of. I’m scared that you all will hate my next article and never read anything I write again.
I’m scared that I may fail and be poor and homeless. I’m scared because I always thought that it would be awesome, but I fear that I will let you down. I’m scared because recently people started listening.
I’m scared because I’ve chosen a path where I share publicly.
Her teenage boys keep her grounded and her involvement in local groups as well as her passion for music, books, politics and sports mean she applies her own consulting advice to fit everything in.I cried the first day I quit my job and decided to run a blog full time. Thrive is a social business, supporting social justice and mobility causes and charities, where Sarah has active leadership roles. Ownership model experience includes small private companies, partnerships, private equity-backed, public sector, not-for-profit and NASDAQ-listed. These range from £1.5bn to $1m turnover, covering law, consulting and search through to regulatory and education sectors. Sarah has unusually broad experience of sizes of organisations, sectors and corporate structure. A key player in business acquisitions has given her strong experience in change situations, particularly restructuring international teams and leading change programmes vital to growth and retrenchment strategies.
Her early career as a lawyer morphed into sales and senior management. Thrive founder and managing director Sarah David has over 15 years’ experience at the executive level of business. A sense that someone believes in us and will help us to get there.Ĭlarity – we’ve had a glimpse of numerous sectors, sizes of business, cultures, we’ve grown, we’ve cut….we’ve studied, we’ve read, we’ve researched….together, we can cut through and create the simple, clear steps to moving forward. Ask questions, question the questions, question the answers! The answers are there somewhere, we just have to find them, seek them out, search for them.Įnergy – sometimes we just need to strong shot of “oomph”, a ray of sunshine in our day, a starburst at night. We don’t give up.Ĭompassion – for how hard it is to build your own business, to grow a non profit, to fit everything in, to fall and get back up (Japanese proverb- fall seven times, stand up eight – that’s Thrive)Ĭuriosity – learning, sharing, learning some more. BRAND VALUESĬommitment – to the people we work with, to challenge and support them to get what they want. And if you don’t, we will refund your fee. We guarantee that you will have tactics and strategies to achieve your goals after working together. We are not low cost but we are high value. People and teams have much more potential than they think – it’s about sharing expertise and ideas and you can get there. It may take a long or short time to get there but we can make a plan for it, and taking small steps all the time, will get you there.
We work with people in relatively short but intense bursts and then we stay with people and teams, through nudges, so that they make the transformation and changes neededĮveryone can have their dream career – – within companies as a portfolio professional or entrepreneur. Effort feels time consuming because it requires we avoid the automaton shortcuts our brain otherwise loves to take. It is effort not time that is needed to transform, change and lead.