The strongest leaders frequently check in on their leadership skills and fine-tune them as necessary as the dynamics of the market environment shift around them. Likewise, I regularly reflect on my own leadership style, and I had a wonderful opportunity to do so recently in partnership with one of my favourite leadership development resources: horses. Here are some highlights of powerful leadership characteristics we could all learn from.

Two years ago I made a rather radical decision to step away from a life that had been totally urban to take on a 22-acre estate with a 500 year-old manor house, stables, gardens, orchards, and woods. Starting out my life on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, then living for 25 years in New York City followed by a five-year stint in London, I was ready to forego pavement for soil and skyscrapers for ancient timbers and historic clocktowers.

A few weeks back I had the spectacular opportunity to sit down and talk with a great writer I have admired for many years, Jessica Fellowes. She had just launched a new podcast, and asked if she could interview me.

It took me a minute to manage the impostor syndrome that immediately kicked in (luckily I’ve done a lot of that work with Tide Risers!) but once I was past that I settled in and it was just so much fun to chat with her.