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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.

62 articles published Follow:

Gardening in a social innovation ecosystem

Inspiration21 January 2011
"All gardening is personal. Don’t try gardening the whole organization. Tend to people and situations one at a time and spend time meeting them where they are. They are part of the ecosystem you need to understand." "Gardening should feel like flow. If it feels like you’re pushing a boulder in a swamp, then you’re trying…

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How do you believe in yourself?

Musings, Projects10 January 2011
I spent an enjoyable weekend with a lovely group of people from Citi Bank Sri Lanka last weekend conducting a self and leadership development program. The objective of the program was to enable participants to reflect on their own development, strengths and areas for improvement in the way they manage their work, career and personal life,…

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Welcoming Another Decade

Musings1 January 2011
What a decade it has been!!! In June 2000 when Corporate Druids first began it’s work, I must admit that we didn't have a very clear path nor very ambitious goals. However I had some very strong intentions that I unwaveringly held on to on the kind of influence Corporate Druids wanted to have in the…

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The power of vulnerability

Inspiration28 December 2010
Brene Brown is a "researcher storylteller" who studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. She says the the wholehearted have…

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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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