I want to thank Global Woman for getting me an accountable partner, who is Daniella Parker. We talk to each other every day at 10 pm and check our day. She is very helpful. I hope all other members are connecting to their partners as well. If she does not, then you take the initiative and call her. With Whatsapp it does not matter which country you are in.
Global Woman Derby! Launching Global Woman Club Derby with local MP for Derby North Catherine Atkinson championing Women in Business
You can be successful and still be carrying hidden wounds.
You can be kind and still be tired.
You can be strong and still need healing.
You can be grateful and still know something needs to change.
Healing does not mean your life is falling apart.
Sometimes healing means you are finally listening to yourself.
Clarity is not always about knowing what to do next.
Sometimes it is about recognising what you are still holding on to.
Letting go is not weakness.
It is alignment.
Within communities like @Global Woman, we see strength, ambition, and growth every day—but we don’t always see what women are quietly carrying behind the scenes.
These are the conversations I’ll be bringing into the room at the symposium on 9th May at Luton Marriott Hotel, Bedfordshire, alongside other thought leaders—creating space for honest reflection, healing, and leadership.
As I prepare for the release of my upcoming book, The Art of Letting Go: Healing from Hidden Wounds, this message feels especially important.
If this resonates, I would truly love to hear your thoughts.
#globalwoman #womeninleadership #lettinggo #emotionalhealing #clarity
𝐓𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝.
The room is almost ready.
The momentum is building.
And the next phase is about to begin.
✅ Women are preparing.
✅ Decisions are being made.
✅ And what is available now may not stay available once access opens.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞.
When tickets open, move with clarity.
Be ready.
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Arguments are not always strength. Avoidance is not always peace. Doing more to please is not always kindness. Sometimes, these are just patterns that show you are no longer fully in charge of yourself.
I know this trap well. For decades, I lost time and energy with people who dazzled, criticised, blamed or pulled me into emotional games. And the hardest part was not always what they did.
It was how fast my own nervous system reacted. Because when you are triggered, calm disappears. When calm disappears, clarity disappears. And when clarity disappears, competence disappears.
In critical and tense situations, the real leadership skill is this: Stay calm. Stay factual. Stay effective. Not because you are passive. But because you refuse to hand over the terrain to the loudest person in the room.
The truth is: It is often 10% what happens. And 90% how we react. This is where power competence begins. Recognising your patterns and triggers is the starting point for real breakthrough. It helps you stop becoming the victim, the rescuer or even the persecutor in drama triangles.
For more than 20 years, I have studied how people lose themselves in conflict, pressure and power games. And I have learned this very clearly: Calm under pressure is not a personality trait. It is a trainable competence. That is exactly what we work on in Conflict-Mastery.
A first step in the journey to progress and impact is simple:
Find out how you react under pressure:
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And learn about your power in my free 90-minute live webinar in German:
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Because challenges cannot be prevented. But they can be mastered.
Where, and with whom, do you become the victim, rescuer or persecutor faster than you would like to admit?
#leadership #collaboration #powercompetence #conflictmastery #upnchange
May is here.
And I want to challenge every woman founder reading this to ask herself one honest question: Does my business have the financial infrastructure to handle the growth I am praying for?
Because here is the truth, most businesses are not ready for the opportunities they are asking God to send. The clients come and the systems collapse.
The revenue grows and the cash flow disappears. Growth without infrastructure is just expensive chaos.
This month , build the foundation first.
— Kelli Lewis | KelliWorks | Entrepreneur Anonymous
For the Woman Who Looks Strong but Feels Tired: The Power of Letting Go!
This message has been on my heart for a long time.
The Art of Letting Go: Healing from Hidden Wounds is more than a book.
It is a gentle but powerful reminder that you do not have to carry everything alone.
• For the woman who looks strong but feels tired
• For the woman who keeps showing up but knows something needs to shift
• For the woman who is ready to heal and move forward with clarity
This is for you.
Within communities like @Global Woman, we are often surrounded by strength, ambition, and growth—but sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is pause and ask:
“What am I still carrying that I need to release?”
I’ll also be sharing more of this at the symposium on 9th May at Luton Marriott Hotel, Bedfordshire, alongside other thought leaders—creating space for honest conversations around healing, leadership, and growth.
If this resonates, I would truly love to hear your thoughts.
#globalwoman #womeninleadership #womensupportingwomen #lettinggo #emotionalhealing
There’s a pattern I keep seeing across organizations:
Highly capable people… operating in systems that quietly work against them.
Not intentionally.
But structurally.
Fragmented calendars.
Constant context switching.
Competing priorities.
And the result?
Lost focus.
Slower, lower-quality decisions.
Capacity that looks full—but isn’t used effectively.
And over time, that has a cost.
Not always visible on a balance sheet.
But present in inefficiency, delays, and missed potential.
So we ask for:
- more ownership
- more resilience
- more performance
At some point, it stops being a people problem.
It becomes a design problem.
Sustainable high performance isn’t just about how people work.
It’s about how work works.
That’s where the real leverage is:
→ Clarity over constant urgency
→ Focus over fragmentation
→ Recovery as part of performance, not a reward after it
This is the work I bring into organizations through workshops and speaking sessions.
Not to add another layer,
but to rethink what’s already there.
If this is a conversation your organization needs to have, I’m always open to exploring it.
#sustainableperformance #organizationaleffectiveness #leadershipdevelopment #futureofwork #businessperformance #workplacestrategy
I once visited an old watchmaker’s shop and noticed how slowly he worked.
Every movement was careful. Every adjustment was small. There was no rushing, no frantic energy, no need to prove how busy he was.
Yet by the end of the day, broken watches were working again.
It struck me because so many people believe progress must feel intense.
They think if they are not stressed, overwhelmed, or constantly rushing, then nothing meaningful is happening.
But that is not always true.
Some of the best results come from steady hands, clear thinking, and consistent small corrections.
This is something I help my clients understand.
You do not need chaos to create success.
You do not need pressure to be productive.
You do not need to exhaust yourself to move forward.
Sometimes calm is the most powerful strategy in the room.
Where in your life have you mistaken stress for progress?
I have been using Notebook LM for over a year now. It's not my favorite, but I use it mainly as one of my knowledgebase. I have uploaded 38 documents to create a "notebook" which is basically trained on me, my brand, and my business. From there, you can prompt the AI like any other AI, but now it is trained to know you.
Two of the features I like are the Audio Overview - a podcast wherein AI talks about you, and the Mind Map - a visual map of you and your brand. When you click on the links, it goes directly into the knowledge to support that particular item.
