Leading Change Experiences

15/01/2025

𝙻𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎 𝚊 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚡. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚊𝚕𝚜, 𝚑𝚒𝚝 𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚐𝚞𝚒𝚍𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚖 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜—𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗, 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚍. 𝚆𝚑𝚢 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗? 𝙾𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚗, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚗𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝—𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚝...

Read my article here :)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leaders-find-meaning-when-courageously-live-4jwkc/?trackingId=zv%2BIZfm%2BgSlgq0pNYZY4bg%3D%3D

Or if you're not on LinkedIn, I have just published the article on my new website:
https://leadingchangex.com.au/blog/b/leaders-find-meaning

04/01/2025

🔥 Emotions can be your greatest strength—or your biggest obstacle. 🔥

I was out early this morning (can you tell :p ) thinking about how in the many years of facilitating social emotional development programs for children, we frequently talked about "emotional regulation"— yet I rarely hear it spoken about in the adult world or workplace. Yes EQ is becoming more popular as a talk point in the workplace.. but as people go about their daily grind and continue in patterns of habits, I am not sure that it's a consciously practiced daily.

Since emotions drive behaviours, I believe it should be.
ALL relationships (even the relationship we have with self) and quality of interactions, are impacted by how we manage and express our feelings.

It’s not about suppressing your feelings. It’s about recognising them, managing them, and expressing them in ways that create connection and growth.

Most people either:
😤 Let emotions take over..
🤐 Or bury them deep and let the pressure build.

When you learn to manage emotions consciously and express them resourcefully, you become the leader, partner, or parent that feels good. You feel more inner peace and calm. You feel significant. You feel connected. You inspire confidence, trust, and connection—because you’ve mastered what so many struggle with.

The world needs more of us choosing to lead with emotional intelligence. Will you be one of them?

💬 Share in the comments:
What’s one way you practice emotional regulation?

01/01/2025

Happy New Year! 🎉
3 actionable steps that will change your experiences and results this year 🙌

23/12/2024

2024 Acknowledgment & Gratitude ✨

21/12/2024

✋🛑 Part 2 - The critical component to “Leading with Vulnerability” - why just ‘being vulnerable’ is not a great display of leadership. Have a listen for what needs to follow expressing our own gaps or challenges, the missing key to building trust and genuine rapport.

18/12/2024

Leaders and business owners ✋🛑
Being vulnerable is different to leading with vulnerability. Being vulnerable creates an environment where people voice their challenges and find comfort in their gaps or short comings. Leading with vulnerability requires a second step to this conversation. Leading with vulnerability develops healthy human respect, trust and admiration. Let me know if you’d like the critical second step 🫶

18/12/2024

🖐️ 5 Essential Qualities Of Resourceful People ⤵️
“Resourcefulness matters” when it comes to problem solving, emotional regulation, confidence in collaboration and innovation, maximising energy and time, and so much more.

02/12/2024

Two of my favourite boys on the planet: my partner, Scott, and my horse, Roy. Roy is a natural leader, effortlessly directing the herd with just a "look." His face and body language are incredibly expressive, and he’s deeply attuned to his environment, picking up on even the subtlest signals from other horses.
Roy has a strong sense of self, with clear boundaries that he defends loudly when crossed. He’s consistent, fair but firm, connecting with others while steering the herd with quiet authority.
I’ve noticed how he reacts when people approach him while stuck "in their heads," driven by ego or expectations. In those moments, Roy mirrors his herd behaviour—pinning his ears back or nipping to reassert his boundaries.
One day, Scott was rushing to rug Roy and approached him with an energy of "you’d better stand still and have good manners." But Roy wasn’t having any of it. The hurried, unregulated approach didn’t feel safe to him.
What happened next was transformative. Scott, realising his tension, paused. He dropped his expectations, let go of ego, and focused on regulating himself. He breathed, grounded himself, and became present. Roy immediately softened in response. The shift was entirely in Scott, and Roy mirrored the safer, calmer energy. Scott was able to rug him effortlessly.
Scott might not love me sharing this, but it’s such a powerful example. In that moment, Scott moved from expectation to connection. Roy spoke. Scott was mature enough to listen and adapt himself.. to become the calm, centred leader that Roy could trust and cooperate with.
It’s a lesson we can all take to heart—one that’s deepened their connection and created a sustained bond of trust and respect.

01/12/2024

Welcome summer! ☀️
Christmas Holidays are just around the corner..
I can’t wait for breakfast and dinner routines to relax, horsey evenings and enriching social catch ups 🥂 before kicking off an amazing 2025!
🎄🐴🌊☀️

27/11/2024

Teamwork fuels progress, and progress delivers results. Horses have exceptional natural intelligence when it comes to working cohesively under pressure. Why? Their survival depends on it.

24/11/2024

🤯 Personality clashes in your team? It’s not about people being “incompatible.”

👉 Check out these 3 common mistakes leaders make when it comes to personality clashes—and the surprising impact they have on your team.

🌟 The good news is that these can be fixed with a few simple shifts!

Jess 🙏

13/11/2024

Shifting perspective is one of the most powerful tools we have when it comes to our strengthening our emotional fitness...

"One day you will realise that happiness is not what your house looks like, but how you love the people within its walls.

Happiness is not finding success by a certain time, but finding something you love so much time itself seems to disappear.

Happiness is not thinking you have earned the world's approval, but waking up each day and feeling so at peace within your own skin, quietly anticipating the day ahead, unconcerned with how you are perceived.

Happiness is not having the best of everything, but the ability to make the best of anything.

Happiness is knowing you did what you could with what you were given.

Happiness is not something that comes to us when every problem is solved and all things are perfectly in place, but in the shining silver linings that remind us of the light of day is always there, if we slow down enough to notice."

- Brianna Wiest
(Photo credit: Unknown)

03/11/2024

"I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be speaking at this year’s Hills Small Acreage Field Days! Next weekend, join me on either Saturday or Sunday for a talk that’s all about navigating the unique challenges of small farm life:
"𝙽𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝙵𝚊𝚛𝚖 𝚄𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 - 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚃𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛"
I’ll also have a stall at the Field Days, where I’ll be running an exciting competition to win a personalised behavioural profile unpack valued at $575. This incredible prize is your unique chance to:

✅ Communicate more effectively! Keep the calm in conversations and positively influence your interactions! - In both business situations and your family environment
✅ Gain deeper self-awareness that drives your own resourceful behavioural change - to improve outcomes
✅ Identify and leverage your strengths for stronger relationships and understand how you and others make decisions differently
✅ Understand what brings you stress and depletes your energy, and identify how to create sustainable energy output
✅ Uncover blind spots in your own behavioural patterning.. this helps you lead with more awareness and gives you the map to developing yourself with a level of self insight that changes how you feel, connect, communicate and lead - in life and business.

If you can’t make it to the Field Days, don’t worry—you’ll still have a chance to enter the competition in the week that follows! Keep an eye on my page for all the details.

Jess
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There's now just 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 until the only Field Days in the Adelaide Hills! 🚜🍃 Have you bought your tickets?

Join us on Saturday November 9 or Sunday November 10 for a jam-packed weekend of live demonstrations & speakers, product displays, activities for the kids, 'Dogs at Work' demonstration, and much more.

🎟️ Buy your tickets now - https://events.humanitix.com/hills-small-acreage-field-days/tickets
📍 Echunga Recreation Grounds
👉 A project of the Rotary Club of Stirling, SA.

01/11/2024

𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳 - 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝, 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎

We’re in a new era of leading people; one where - strength is now found in authenticity, connection matters more than control, and where intuition is just as valuable as intellect.

People experience increasing expectations, pressures, and uncertainty and I believe that as leaders, the way forward isn’t about pushing harder or overriding the human-ness to lead others. But instead, the way forward is to lead with more consciousness. Conscious awareness, and well, human-ness.

True leadership today means flipping the lid on what we've known. It’s about being human, real, and compassionate. This requires tapping into the heart, using intuition as a compass, and discerning wisely with our minds.

Leadership is an energy we put out into the world, affecting everyone we touch.

We can start by redefining what it means to lead. At its core, leading from the heart involves recognising that people are more than their job titles or skill sets; they’re human beings with emotions, dreams and challenges. A consciously aware leader sees beyond productivity metrics and asks, "How can I create an environment where people feel safe, understood, valued, and empowered?"

Then there’s intuition—this often-overlooked, quiet voice or sense within us. It’s what happens when we pause, listen, and trust our inner wisdom to guide us. Intuition reminds us that sometimes the best answer doesn’t come from a data sheet but from that gut feeling that tells us something is right (or wrong). Leading from intuition isn’t about abandoning logic; it’s about balancing it with the softer wisdom that only comes from within.

And yes, the head has its place—perspective and thoughtful discernment are essential. We need the ability to sift through information, make strategic choices, and bring our vision to life.

Perspective isn’t about rigidity; it’s about viewing situations with clarity and without the distortions of ego or fear. It’s about seeing things as they are—cleanly, without bias. It’s about making decisions that honor both the wellbeing of the team and the mission.

As leaders, our role is no longer to dominate— but to guide, inspire, and nurture.

It’s time to lead from within—combining the compassion of the heart, the clarity of intuition, and the perspective of the mind, all with the aim of becoming a more conscious leader who is attuned to the people we lead.

In this way, we create not only stronger leaders but also more inspiring workplaces, connected communities, connected families and, ultimately, a more uplifting world.

𝐽𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 '𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑑'

17/10/2024

This is a big one... the heart of so much miscommunication, conflict, and frustration in teams (and families) often stems from the assumption that others see things the way we do. With nearly 8 billion people in the world, that’s 8 billion unique perspectives!

But here’s the real power: these perspectives can actually be grouped into 4 core behavioural archetypes, each with its own unique patterns and similarities. By understanding these, we unlock the ability to navigate interpersonal challenges, enhance communication, and build stronger, more cohesive teams ✨

Jess

14/10/2024

✨ Intuition is the GPS of our Soul ✨

Ever get that gut feeling telling you the right move, even when everything else says otherwise? That’s intuition—our inner compass quietly guiding us in the right direction. It's not just a ‘feeling’; it's wisdom rooted deep in our experience, emotions, and instincts.

As leaders, tapping into this inner guide can be a game changer. Whether it's making tough decisions, guiding your team, or navigating personal crossroads, your intuition often knows the way before your mind catches up.

At Leading Change Experiences, we help leaders reconnect with this inner wisdom—often through the guidance of horses, who respond to human energy and intent, offering real-time feedback. When you learn to trust your inner voice, you’ll lead with more confidence, authenticity, and connection.

When was the last time you trusted your gut, and did it work out for you? 🌿

06/10/2024

In a world filled with constant distractions and never-ending to-do lists, horses remind us of the power of being fully present. They live entirely in the moment, reacting to the here and now without the baggage of worry or distraction. When we engage with horses, they require us to do the same. You can’t lead effectively if you’re not fully present—they’ll sense it immediately.

This lesson in presence isn’t just about leading horses. It translates into our leadership, relationships, and daily life. By being present, we become better listeners, more empathetic leaders, and we appreciate the subtle moments in life that we often overlook. Horses give us the gift of mindfulness and help us connect more deeply with ourselves and others.