Thoughts & writing from the team
Reflections on leadership, mentoring, and what it takes to build teams that deliver.
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·Dane Hudson
Discipline Beats Vision — Early Momentum and a Powerful Foreword
I am thrilled that nearly 300 copies of Discipline Beats Vision have already been pre-ordered around the world! Even more encouraging, many CEOs and leadership
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Discipline beats Vision cover Launch
Happy New Year and best wishes to everyone for an amazing 2026. Personally, I’m excited about what’s ahead as I continue mentoring inspiring leaders and work to
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Disciplined Leader Definition
What separates leaders who scale from those who don’t isn’t a bolder vision — it’s their disciplined leadership behaviours that turns their vision for the compa
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A Handbook to create more Disciplined and Impactful Leaders … coming Q1 2026
I’m thrilled to share the reason for my recent silence on LinkedIn: over the past four months I’ve been finalising the manuscript for my new book to be publishe
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The Power of Recognition
Does your team know your company's values? Are those values just a poster on the wall—or a true filter for decision-making?
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Impactful Leadership Expands its Global Impact
I am thrilled to announce the addition of two outstanding coaches, Diana Wu David, and Loic Potjes, who are now leveraging the Impactful Leadership approach to
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Join the Impactful Leadership Coaching community
I have a few exciting announcements to make. Firstly, in the next few weeks I will launch “Impactful Chat” which contains all of the 1,000 pages of the Impactfu
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Thought I was too smart to be scammed … sadly not
I have vacillated on writing this article as I feel a complete fool, and as a CEO Coach, that is not great marketing. However, over the past week I have been informed of the huge number and magnitude…
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Impactful Approach to Strategy Offsites
Over the past few years, many businesses have struggled with effective strategy development and deployment. There are a wide range of reasons for this, however there are two that I observed…
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Paul White joins Impactful Leadership
I am thrilled to introduce Paul William White PCC CA as an Impactful Leadership coach, joining Wayne Reuben and me. There are many things to appreciate in his background, however what excites me the…
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·Dane Hudson
Leading Across Borders: How great leaders expand internationally.
I had the pleasure this past week to be in Ho Chi Minh City to support Tieu Yen Trinh, CEO and Founder of Vietnam’s largest and most respected Human Resources Services company, Talentnet Corporation,…
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Dane Hudson now available for Keynote Speeches
I am extremely excited to announce a further evolution to accelerate the sharing of Impactful Leadership concepts and insights through keynote presentations. Two keynotes have been created,…
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From Protege to Powerhouse: A Business Journey
Explore Dane Hudson's remarkable evolution from an aspiring apprentice to a visionary business leader. This featured article from 'The Weekend Australian' offers valuable lessons and insights into…
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Creating an accountable and impactful team
There is no easy time to be a leader, but the current environment is extremely difficult with uncertain economies, higher interest rates, fewer funding options and likely less internal resources as…
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Unleashing Potential: eFishery's Game-Changing Bootcamp
I have had the privilege of a two year working relationship with eFishery and seeing the outstanding results achieved by their CEO and co-Founder Gibran Huzaifah and his amazing team. Earlier this…
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I'm sorry that ILC is late to the ChatGPT party, but we are here to stay!
This Building Trust article was written by ChatGPT4 after I gave it five key levers. I have to say an interesting and useful article. It excludes specific initiatives that would make it even more…
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Welcome, Wayne
Welcoming Wayne Reuben to Impactful Leadership — 25+ years of APAC executive leadership across healthcare, FMCG and financial services, now coaching CEOs and senior leaders.
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Make your Partner Your Partner
We felt it was timely to share something different but incredibly important and impactful in a leader’s journey; “Making your Partner your Partner”. I use the word we, as this article was…
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The Contentment Foundation
My posts to date have been focused on leadership insights gathered from my life and career as a corporate CEO, providing tools and frameworks to support leaders of all types of companies. In this…
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How to get some feedback
As the leader, you appreciate and need feedback as much, if not more, than your team. However, mostly when the leader asks for feedback from their team the response is “you are doing fine” or “I…
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How to impactfully lead your board
Given that this is the longest gap between my articles, I thought I would raise a topic that comes across most commonly with all my coaching clients, no matter where they are on their leadership…
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It's the HOW
Like many people, over the holidays I read quite a few books and in a couple of the books on leadership, the authors were quite critical of the feedback approach that is sometimes referred to as the…
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Managing your own buzz … Being your own best PR agent
A long time ago, when I was a junior consultant with Booz Allen and Hamilton, a partner gave me some advice, “Every time you open your mouth, you gain or lose market share”. At the time, I felt that…
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Are we there yet?
Patience, persistence and playing the long game in leadership — why the journey to lasting results takes longer than expected and what keeps great leaders the course.
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Time to Say Thank You
As our lives continue to be restricted in the Asia Pacific region due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19, it is even more critical for us as leaders to challenge ourselves to enhance our workplace…
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Impactful words
Leaders that have had media training would know that when speaking to a journalist, you must be very precise with your word selection. The media will most likely quote less than a dozen words out of…
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Confrontation as a Conversation
No-one enjoys confrontation. As a leader, you must be comfortable engaging in difficult conversations, every day. From giving feedback to an underperforming team member, to dealing with a…
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The best scorecard on your leadership is your result
The most accurate scorecard on your leadership is the result it achieves. However, over my career and my personal lifelong journey of learning, I have created a personal list on how to evaluate…
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Are you a savvy international executive? Here's what you need to know about overseas expansion.
Expanding into another country – aside from an acquisition – yields the highest figures in most strategic planning or budgeting spreadsheets. It energises the team as it sends many positive signals…
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I am not worthy.
How leaders combat imposter syndrome — practical strategies for C-level executives who feel under-qualified, and how remote work amplifies the problem.
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Isn't it Ironic?
How leaders close the gap between the advice they give others and the behaviours they model themselves — building self-awareness around blind spots.
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Be pleased, but never satisfied – growing from C-Level to CEO
Boards and CEOs are understandably thrilled when they find an internal candidate to be the next CEO. It sends so many positive messages to the organisation, including proven succession planning,…
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Shadow of the Leader
How a leader's character and behaviour shape the culture, trust and reputation of their team — the shadow of the leader falls further than most realise.
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Now is the time to start to create your legacy.
No time is ever right or wrong for defining or reassessing your leadership legacy, but is there a perfect time? Given 2020 is six weeks behind us, the Year of the Ox has just started, and some of us…
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