- Critical Conversation Series
Leadership in 2025: Adapting to Thrive in a World of Change
- SkyRed Leadership
Today, amidst uncertainty and rapid transformation, leadership must reclaim its essence: the ability to inspire people to achieve extraordinary things.
- Isolde Norris
- Executive & Team Coach & Leadership Consultant
Most managers I work with are not avoiding feedback because they don't care. They are avoiding it because they care too much and don't quite know how to begin.
The cost of that avoidance is higher than most managers realise.
- Amanda Cahir-O'Donnell
- Award-Winning Executive & Team Coach, Founder & Managing Director of SkyRed Leadership
This week, I’m hiring a new assistant but a virtual one as it suited both the candidate and aligned with our own organisational goals so it got me thinking………
At SkyRed Leadership, we know there’s no one‑size‑fits‑all answer to remote or hybrid working. Every organisation has its own culture, operational needs, and customer expectations. But the world of work has shifted — and leaders are being asked to think more intentionally about what flexibility could look like in their context.
- Amanda Cahir-O'Donnell
- Award-Winning Executive & Team Coach, Founder & Managing Director of SkyRed Leadership
SkyRed Leadership proudly celebrates one year of redefining what brave, human, purpose‑fuelled leadership looks like — alongside our ambitious clients and partners. It has been a year of growth, learning, deep collaboration and powerful leadership moments, and I am immensely proud of what we have achieved together.
- Amanda Cahir-O'Donnell
- Award-Winning Executive & Team Coach, Founder & Managing Director of SkyRed Leadership
I often say that leadership is not something you learn once — it’s something life teaches you again and again. For me, one of the most career defining lessons arrived in 2003, during a period of profound personal change.
- Amanda Cahir-O'Donnell
- Award-Winning Executive & Team Coach, Founder & Managing Director of SkyRed Leadership
One question we’re hearing more often in Executive Coaching with female leaders — particularly those identified as top talent — is this: “Can you really have it all?”
- Amanda Cahir-O'Donnell
- Award-Winning Executive & Team Coach, Founder & Managing Director of SkyRed Leadership
A brilliant technical expert — an engineer, accountant, solicitor, IT specialist, HR professional — excels in their role. Naturally, the next step is a leadership position. It’s the expected career path.
Yet this transition is far from straightforward.