The Authenticity Institute by Dr. Katrina Gisbert Tay

In two weeks, Maude® Labs together with Erika Aquino - Profit + Purpose - angel investor and marketing guru - and I will be running The Weekend again, this time for founders and leaders ready to take their business to the next level.

Four intensive days at Anya Resort in Tagaytay, working on how we own our power, make difficult decisions, lead through uncertainty, and build the business only we can build.

This is deep leadership work, grounded in the real challenges of leading, building and growing.

Because at some point, taking your business to the next level requires something different from you as a leader.

Only a few slots left - message me if you are keen to join ❤️🙏🏻

There are things I want my children to know so deeply that, one day, they no longer sound like things mom told them. 💞

That they are never too much.
That they are allowed to take up space.
That home is always going to welcome them.
That love is not something they have to earn.
That rest does not require permission.
That no feeling is too messy to bring to us.
That the people they love will always have a place at our table.
And that wherever life takes them, they have us and each other. ❤️

Last week, I came out of a coaching session frustrated.

I could see so clearly where I thought my client needed to go. Part of me was thinking, “If you would just shift this…”

Not exactly a coaching mindset. But a very human one.

When I reflected on the session, I realised my own experiences, assumptions and biases had entered the room. I was becoming attached to the change I thought my client needed.

It reminded me of Immunity to Change, the work of Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, which I trained in years ago.

Instead of asking:

“Why won’t they change?”

I came back to a much more interesting question:

“What makes NOT changing make sense?”

And then, as a coach:

What is happening in me when my client doesn’t change? Whose agenda am I holding?

Sometimes resistance isn’t something to overcome. It’s something to get curious about.

Sharing the framework and questions I came back to here. Swipe through. →

Adapted from the Immunity to Change framework by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey.

Too often we celebrate the loud wins. The launches, the milestones, the moments with fireworks and a party.

But some of the best things happening never make it to the highlight reel.

Last week, in Kuala Lumpur, we ran a transformational leadership program with a room full of people willing to be honest, and a team that has grown together over the years.

No fanfare. No big announcement. Just relationships built slowly, and impact we’ve created together, one program at a time - over many decades.

There’s a particular kind of trust that only comes from doing this work again and again, with the same people, over years.

You learn each other’s rhythms. You stop performing for one another and start actually showing up. That’s not something you can manufacture in a single big moment. It’s built in the small ones, the ones nobody’s filming.

I want to start celebrating those, too. The quiet ones. The steady ones. The ones that don’t ask to be seen but shape everything anyway.💞✨

What are you celebrating today?🥳🥳🥳

Yayoi Kusama and her infinite dots.

Wherever I traveled, if a Kusama exhibition was there, so was I. No living artist did I chase more closely, or love more fiercely. Her worlds folded me into them, mirror rooms and endless polka dots stretching past where I could see. Her joy became mine. And sometimes, so did her sadness, her anxiety, glimpses of a mind she never asked us to look away from.

She turned her struggle into something the whole world could stand inside. She let us see the storm and the beauty it made. Thank you, Kusama, for your honesty, your obsession, your infinity. You will be missed, but you are everywhere now, in every dot.

“I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art.” — Yayoi Kusama 🟠⚫️🔴🔵🟢⚫️⚪️

What an incredible experience facilitating the Neurodiversity Masterclass with Yasodha Rajadurai!
Yasodha Rajadurai
We spent our weekend with a room of professionals and coaches who came ready to go deeper: to become more trauma-informed, more neuro-affirming, and to carry that lens into how they lead, coach, parent and show up in the workplace.

I learned so much myself just being in that space. We shared personal experiences, we learned from each other, and there was a rawness and honesty in the room that reminded me why this work matters. Trauma-informed, neuro-affirming practice isn’t a checklist, it’s a way of seeing people, and rooms like this one are where that shift actually starts.

Grateful to everyone who showed up fully and to Yasodha for co-creating this with me.