The Intentional Growth Leader

Fortnightly reflections to help you grow intentionally, realise your potential and positively influence others.

Recent issues

A new issue lands every fortnight. Here are the latest.

Issue 4 · 21 July 2026

The Poleng Principle

A black-and-white cloth wrapped around temples and trees across Bali, and what it revealed about success and failure. Not opposites to be chosen between, but partners that shape the leader you’re becoming.

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Issue 3 · 4 July 2026

Quiet Significance

A chance meeting with an elderly farmer in Ubud, and what it stirred about where real significance lives. Less about what we achieve, more about who we’re becoming.

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Issue 2 · 18 June 2026

The Lie of Later

We tell ourselves we’ll get to it later — the growth, the hard conversation, the change. This issue looks at the quiet cost of “later” and how intentional leaders close the gap between knowing and doing.

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Issue 1 · 5 June 2026

The Wall Between Where You Are and Where You Could Be

Most of us can see the leader we could become. This issue is about the wall in between — what builds it, and the small, intentional steps that get you over it.

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