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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.

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The Emergence of a Biosphere Economy

Almost 200 years ago, Thomas Newcomen built the world’s first commercially successful steam engine in order to pump water out of deep coal mines. In the process, he handed humanity the keys to the Earth’s fossil-fuel resources, an event which, in turn, helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. Ever since that moment, the natural world has…

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Hope: Don’t Leave Home Without It

“The force multiplier throughout history,” write Gallup research veterans Bruce J. Avolio and Fred Luthans, “has often been attributed to the leader's ability to generate hope." Leaders are purveyors of hope. With the unease caused by the Great Recession, it is easy to spiral into a negative state of mind and ignore the promising signs…

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Acting today, a past of honour and a future of hope.

We want to be able to look back on our past actions with honour. But, if we feel regret, guilt, remorse on our past actions there in lies our greatest teacher showing us exactly the difference between actions that bring honour and actions that brings regret, guilt and remorse. An attachment to the regret, guilt and remorse stops you from acting today. An awareness of the rise of those emotions empowers us to break the habits and patterns that repeat such actions.

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What is your gentle action today?

Take a deep breath if you are feeling powerless. If you think you are only a drop in the ocean, without the ability to influence change in the larger world, that your will and action will be diluted. Breathe. Know that as you breathe in, you are breathing the air that connects you to others, the environment and all living things.

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The power of simple random acts – How the ‘I Can’ project started in Sri Lanka

It' February 14th, Valentines day and I am browsing the net, going from one link to the other, without a particular destination, enjoying tidbits from the cyber world. I happen to come across an interesting TED talk http://on.ted.com/88Xq. Its about a school in India (Riverside School) that starts a program called I Can, where children aged 8 - 14, in small groups are empowered and inspired to become change agents. It’s a simple concept. The children are asked to pick an issue that bothers them, that they want to change, and then they are given a week to make the change. The impact and results are amazing. From cleaning up garbage, to making cities child friendly, to stopping child marriages, to teaching their parents to read and write, no issue was too big or too small. Kiran Sethi, the lady spearheading this project sees the potential of the project and starts taking the idea to other schools in the state and then across India. It gathers momentum and start spreading all over … Pakistan, England, Canada, Bhutan. Check how its spreading at http://www.designforchangecontest.com/.

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Reflection on “Think Oblique …”

Goals worth pursuing cannot be defined too rigidly, for example like happiness or peace or intimate relationships. It is the journey itself that lets us discover the nature and form of the goal, as each step brings us closer to it, it also changes and evolves. The moment you frame it too rigidly and give…

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