One of the most overlooked leadership skills is managing up. Not in a political sense. Not through influence games or corporate manoeuvring. But through strategic, deliberate leadership that helps you achieve strong performance while staying true to your values. In today's organisations, leaders are surrounded by noise. Endless emails, competing priorities, restructures, strong personalities, and shifting agendas can easily consume energy that should be directed towards delivering results.

Arriving in New Zealand or Australia to study or work can be exciting, brave and deeply unsettling, often all at the same time. You may arrive with qualifications, ambition, family expectations and a strong desire to contribute. You may also arrive without your usual support network, without local experience, and without fully understanding the unwritten rules of a new workplace or study environment…

A few years ago, if you'd asked me about burnout, I probably would have described it as something that happened to other people. The high performers who couldn't cope. The people who hadn't learned to manage their workload. After a career spanning banking, government, leadership, risk, coaching, migration, parenting, and plenty of reinventions, I've learned that burnout doesn't discriminate…