In today’s volatile world, leaders face relentless pressure to deliver certainty amid uncertainty. Yet the most effective ones embrace curiosity as their edge - asking bold questions that unlock innovation and collaboration.

In this post, Rachel Morris explores how curiosity shifts leaders from knowing to learning, in the process challenging assumptions and fostering resilient teams.

“Fake it till you make it” has genuine value — it helps leaders push through imposter syndrome and self-doubt. But there’s a point where borrowed confidence becomes a permanent performance, and that’s where trust quietly erodes.

Drawing on twenty years of working with senior leaders, we explore why authentic leadership consistently outperforms manufactured gravitas — and what it really takes to earn followership.

The behaviors that propelled you to success can quietly become your greatest obstacles. As leaders climb higher, the very habits that once differentiated them—decisiveness, self-reliance, technical expertise—often calcify into rigid patterns that limit growth.

Executive coach Rachel Morris explores the key shifts leaders need to make to break free from past success and unlock their next level of impact.

From January 2027, the Employment Rights Act 2025 will quietly raise the bar on how organisations and leaders manage their people.

In this blog we explore what’s changing, why it lands squarely on line managers’ desks, and how practical performance management, conversation skills and coaching can turn legal risk into stronger everyday leadership.

What does the future look like for coaching?

Having shared our clients’ and our colleagues’ views on how they have experienced remote coaching this year, we now want to think about some of the practical skills being brought to the fore, and look forward to a more varied coaching experience in the future.

Coaching has changed dramatically during 2020.

The coaches at Motion share their experiences with executive coach and partner Rachel Morris about the reality of coaching in a virtual space, along with their coachees’ reactions and thoughts about the remote coaching experience.

We all know there are times where having someone objective to talk to helps tremendously. Those moments when, through skilled conversation, complications and confusions begin to become crystal clear.

How do you know when you’re at one of those moments?

How do you choose an executive coach? How do you know the fit is right?

Rachel Morris, executive coach and partner at Motion Learning, shares her views on the signs of potential for a good coaching relationship and reveals some of the key qualities of any great coach.

We’ve been listening to a lot of people this year, which is good, as it’s our job to listen. There are a lot of things people want to talk through, work through and share – but in a quiet, safe space; away from all the noise.

We’ve asked a few of our coaches to tell us about what they’ve been listening to, and how they’ve been helping people this year.

Demonstrating resilience, overcoming barriers and hurdles, and bouncing back are more and more frequent topics of conversation in our work with clients.

We’ve spent a lot of time over the last couple of years talking to our clients and our network about resilience and it's not hard to understand why. A recent study on reactions to the current global economic crisis highlighted the range of reactions and depth of emotions that are stirred up by the uncertainty we all currently face.

What should leaders be doing to get businesses through 'tough times'? What really works?

Using a balance of your head, your heart and your gut instincts can take you a long way in a crisis, if you can get the balance right. Authenticity is also critical