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Mihirini de Zoysa

Mihirini de Zoysa

I am a leadership and team coach with over 25 years of experience in working with leaders from diverse organisations, supporting them and their teams to become their best version.

My experience, not only as a coach but also as a trainer, workshop facilitator and organisation development consultant has enriched my work over the years in supporting and guiding leaders, teams and organisations to:
- navigate transitions
- transform themselves
- build collaborative relationships and
- own their story

If you are committed to a process of learning and deep inquiry and if you or your team find yourself stuck or challenged by transitions, I would love to hear from you.

58 articles published Follow:

UNCG – Annual Review Meeting

Projects27 December 2010
The United Nations Communications Group, which is a representation of all the Communication focal points of all the UN agencies met in November 2010 to review the progress of their plans in 2010 and plan for 2010. Some of the participants at the workshop.

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UNDP – Annual Retreat

Projects27 December 2010
This is what one group came up with as being essential to be a good team, during a group exercise at the annual retreat of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) when over 220 people got together to get to know each other better and to review their past years progress and plan for the…

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What’s YOUR Sustainability Blueprint?

Inspiration29 November 2010
" ...none of us can fully understand the impact our actions are having on the planet. Yet interconnected we all are. And as these same expert scientists have been saying, time for keeping our planet in balance is now rapidly running out."   Define your Sustainability Blueprint. Start by reflecting on your business and/or profession: What…

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How To Be Alone

Inspiration17 August 2010
Link: YouTube - How To Be Alone. A beautiful poem about being alone. In a social order that does everything in its power to stop you from being alone with its commercial and manufactured entertainment, we forget that it is ok to be alone. That it is important to learn to be alone. Alone is a way of…

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Forget Brainstorming

Inspiration4 August 2010
What you think you know about fostering creativity is wrong. A look at what really works. Brainstorming in a group became popular in 1953 with the publication of a business book, Applied Imagination. But it’s been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output:…

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The Creativity Crisis

Inspiration4 August 2010
The necessity of human ingenuity is undisputed. A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No. 1 “leadership competency” of the future. Yet it’s not just about sustaining our nation’s economic growth. All around us are matters of national and international importance that are crying out for creative solutions, from saving the…

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Frustrated with the Progress of Your Dreams?

Musings23 July 2010
Sometimes it can be frustrating to watch the progress of your own dreams. One of the funniest quotes I came across recently on twitter is "I'm sick of following my dreams I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later... " by @MrTommyLand. I thought that summed up the frustration of following your dreams. And good advice in dealing with the frustration. What frustrates me personally about following my dreams? There are many, but today these were the ones I came up with.

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Using computers to teach children with no teacher

Inspiration21 July 2010
A 10-year experiment that started with Indian slum children being given access to computers has produced a new concept for education. Professor Sugata Mitra has watched the children teach themselves - and others - how to use the machines and gather information. Follow up experiments suggest children around the world can learn complex tasks quickly with…

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