Kul Mahay

It's a cold, frosty early start but I'm excited! 😀

Today, I'm heading to Worcester to spend the day with one of our Executive Team clients.

We have been working together for nearly a year to build emotional intelligence and cohesion to enhance team performance in a highly demanding, performance and safety-driven organisation.

Today will be a true test of whether the team can apply these skills in crisis scenarios.

I have a couple of great simulated exercises prepared, and I am really looking forward to it.

Let's finish the week off strong 💪.

It's been a fantastic day today for me as I was part of a panel at the National Police Chiefs'​ Council and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners Summit in London.

To share the panel with some outstanding leaders, such as Nick Rhodes OBE, QPM, Director of Oscar Kilo UK, Nick Smart, PSA President, Professor Sarah Charman was a true honour.

The session was expertly chaired by, Matthew Scott, Kent Police and Crime Commissioner.

Thank you to Emma Knipe for organising it all.

In discussing police leadership for the modern era, building cultures of belonging, I was so pleased to note the positive acceptance of our work around Human Centred Leadership and

For so many years, I pushed the importance of emotional intelligence in the police service but to see everyone talking about as a business critical skillset, it genuinely warmed my heart.

I hope I can work with the UK police service to build into the culture to create human centric leaders going forward.

This session could easily have gone on for several hours.

I got through some podcasts on my long drive to the awesome QEII Centre, so I feel like it's been a 'win all round' kind of day.

Hope you've had a good one.

Today's early morning start is really early.

It's a very cold, dark and damp morning but I'm excited for a long drive to Westminster, London.

I'm honoured to be speaking on a panel on the future of leadership in the UK Police service at the National Police Chiefs'​ Council and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners summit.

I'm really looking forward to some enlightening conversations.

Today, a simple thread reminded me of one of leadership's greatest lessons.

Today is Raksha Bandhan – a celebration of bonds, trust, and responsibility.

It's one of my favourite days of the year.

In many Indian households, today is Raksha Bandhan, a tradition where sisters tie a rakhi on their brothers’ wrists, symbolising love, protection, and a lifelong commitment to stand by each other.

It’s a beautiful reminder that relationships, whether personal or professional, thrive on mutual care.

My 3 sisters know only too well how insistent I can be that they send me rakhis (the threads) on time every year. I say the same thing every year too, "please make sure they are simple threads cause they stay on way longer than any others".

This year, I was blessed to have some 'adopted' sisters add to my rakhis (one who recently lost her only brother).

In leadership, we don’t tie a thread around someone’s wrist, but we do make silent commitments:

I will look out for you.

I will create a safe space for you to grow.

I will stand by you when things get tough.

And just like with Raksha Bandhan, these commitments are reciprocal. The best teams are built on a two-way promise.

Leaders protect and empower their people, and in return, their people protect and champion the vision.

This tradition teaches us that trust is not given once; it’s renewed continually through actions, empathy, and shared purpose.

So, on this Raksha Bandhan, my leadership takeaway is simple:

Leadership is less about titles and more about the invisible threads of trust we weave every day.

If we nurture those threads, they become unbreakable.

Happy Raksha Bandhan to all who celebrate and here’s to strengthening the bonds that make leadership truly human-centred.

I'm spending a day with senior leaders from Network Rail today.

We will be exploring the evolution of the wider rail industry and focus on the demands on executive teams during periods of significant transformation.

I'm looking forward to some inspired conversations. 😀

Tell me you've created the start of a powerful human centred leadership movement, without telling me that you've created the start of a powerful human centred leadership movement.



Credit for Images - Harry Fisher

"Mum, I'm going to be on TV!"

The first and only time I've ever said that to my mum was in January 1983 when I first joined the police service and Central TV came to interview me on a special.

I remember she was watching a Bollywood movie when the programme aired and got so excited that she just pressed 'record' to capture my moment straight over pay of her favourite film.

I'm very lucky to have appeared on a few TV programmes since but my mum passed away 21 years ago and, of course, I miss her incredibly to this day.

She was my biggest supporter.

If she were alive today, she'd be incredibly excited to hear that I'm going to be on TV again today.

I'm not sure how she would 'record' the moment but I suspect she'd probably sit there recording the whole thing on a smart phone.

If you are reading this mum, I'm on TV joining the wonderful Jon Bentley on 'Shop Smart, Save Money' as we explore doorbell video camera technology on Channel 5 at 8pm.

PS - you don't need to record it xx 😊