New Article on Substack: Strengths Before Strategy – How Knowing Yourself Energises Your Leadership

Our Founder, Kimmaree Thompson has published her first article on the Substack publication, “Authentically”—a space where she will be exploring leadership, authentic self-awareness, strengths-based growth, flow state optimal performance and the kind of values-aligned leadership our communities and organisations truly need.

In this opening piece, “Strengths Before Strategy – How Knowing Yourself Energises Your Leadership,” Kimmaree shares the foundation of her personal leadership philosophy.

It introduces a simple 3-step framework—Know, Accept, Create—that has guided her own growth, and which she now uses to support the leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers she works with.

In a world full of noise and pressure to act, this article is a gentle nudge to pause… and reflect inward first. Because strategy without self-awareness is just performance. And true leadership? It starts from within.

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Kimmaree is just starting this process, if you get the chance to listen or read, please comment or send her a note with your impressions or suggestions.

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| First Published 25 July 2025