Amanda Workman Consulting

08/09/2026

This was me at 6:30 this morning. No makeup, a little sweaty, Ssetting up for a group coaching program full of executives and business owners. I had a dozen reasons not to start now…including the fact that my office is currently being renovated (thus the plastic chairs 😅).

But I decided to start anyway. Because at the end of the day, the business owners I’ve been working with, need each other, they need community, and they need what I have to offer.

They don’t need a perfect office space. They need presence.

Today 14 brilliant business women started a 10 week journey to level it up. I can’t wait to see where we go!

Somedays you have to stop waiting for circumstances to be perfect - and start anyway.

07/09/2026

My Surviving to Thriving business coaching programme for executive women starts tomorrow, and I have a whole group of women who are READY!

I have wanted to do this programme for years…and before I could even get it on my website, it filled up! 🎉🎉

Meanwhile, if you are looking for:

• Someone to help you figure out what is actually holding your business back
• Practical strategy to move from where you are to where you want to be
• Executive coaching when you need to think through a decision, challenge or change
• Enneagram work to better understand yourself, your team and how you lead
• A strategic partner who will ask the questions other people are not asking

Let’s talk.

06/09/2026

I have become fiercely protective of Sundays.

When you run a business, there is always something you could be doing. My brain rarely ever stops thinking of the next thing on my list.

But rest does not have to earn its place by making us more productive tomorrow.

Sometimes Sunday gets to be Sunday & I get to sit on my stoop and read the latest Nora Roberts. Sip something delicious & just be.

What does real rest look like for you?

04/09/2026

One of my favourite things about living in Botswana is I am always just a few short hours from where people from all over the world pay thousands of dollars to be.

A couple of weeks ago, my partner and I took advantage of that. We drove up North for the weekend and Friday afternoon found us on the Okavango Delta. Kyle driving the boat. Me apparently taking my responsibilities as navigator very seriously. We saw elephants, crocs, zebra, hippo, and host of birds...you know just a casual Friday in Africa.

It was a very good day.

When I first stepped out on my own 13-some years ago, I gave myself Fridays off. It seemed like a good idea...one of the perks of working for myself.

As perks go though...I've got a real stickler of boss when it comes to using them.

It is Friday, and I have spent this week launching a website, delivering training, building a coaching programme and working on approximately 47 other ideas. And of course, today I have been working since before dawn on all the things you work on when you say, “I am NOT going to work on a Friday...”

But I think this photo might be evidence that I have, at least occasionally, managed to honour the original plan.

I might need to revisit that particular SOP.

Happy Friday from Botswana! Keep it casual.

03/09/2026

Day two of client training this morning.

Some of my favourite work starts with someone saying, “Amanda, we have a problem…”

Maybe the business is growing but the systems haven’t caught up. Maybe the team isn’t working the way it should. Maybe there is a decision that has been going round and round for months. Or maybe you can’t quite put your finger on what is wrong, but you know something needs sorting out.

Give me a complicated business or people problem and let me start pulling at the threads. I genuinely love it.

So I’m curious. If you could put one problem from your business on the table with me today, what would it be?

Tell me in the comments or send me a message. I might have some thoughts.

01/09/2026

My new website is officially live!

This website has been a long time in the making, partly because I wanted it to properly reflect the work I do today and the direction that work is continuing to grow.

For almost three decades, my work has centred around people and organisations: helping executives think through complicated problems, navigate change, make better decisions, build stronger teams, and understand what is really happening beneath the surface when things are not working as they should.

The new website brings that work together in one place.

You will find my executive consulting and strategic advisory work, Enneagram sessions, and different ways to work with me.

And there is much more coming. I have been quietly working on my Enneagram Guides to Practical Life for the past year and a half, and they will soon have a home here alongside a growing collection of practical tools, resources and ideas designed to be genuinely useful in work and everyday life.

The website may be live, but I am only getting started.

For now, I am delighted to finally send it out into the world.

Come have a look around:

CHANGING THE WAY WE CONNECT The next level of growth will not come from working harder. It will come from leading differently. Organisations don't change because someone writes a better strategic plan. They change because the people responsible for carrying that strategy begin thinking, communicatin...

17/08/2026

The last few weeks I have been hit with some unknowns. There are some new possibilities on the table for me and mine, but I will not have solid answers about them for another few weeks. And none of those answers are within my control.

As someone who loves the security of knowing what is coming next and making all the plans for it, even without any answers I immediately started trying to figure out every possible outcome and what needed to be done next. Before I knew it, I was in a tailspin of thoughts, solving problems that did not exist yet and planning for decisions I may never have to make.

As we all know, however, life does not work that way. Sometimes we have to make the best decision we can with the information we have in the moment and trust that the next step will bring more clarity.

This is something I see often in my work with executives. We can spend so long thinking around a problem that, at some point, thinking stops being useful and starts becoming circular. Sometimes what we need is simply focused time to pull it apart, challenge the assumptions and work out what we actually know and what we can do next.

That is exactly what my Intensive VIP Days are designed for. One complicated problem. One focused day. A different perspective and a way forward.

If you have a decision, challenge or opportunity that you have been circling for too long, send me a message. Let’s talk about whether a VIP Intensive could help you work through it.

11/08/2026

I have spent my whole career saying “Yes!” to the next right thing.

Today, in my weekly email, I wrote about how almost everything good in my life has come from saying yes to the unconventional opportunity, the unexpected invitation or the path whose destination I could not yet see.

I am ready to say yes again.

I am currently looking for new consulting contracts, fractional CxO opportunities and executive clients seeking a strategic thinking partner.

If you know of an organisation that could benefit from my experience in strategy, operations, organisational change and the Enneagram, I would love an introduction.

Perhaps the next right thing begins with someone saying, “I thought of you.”

22/07/2026

One of the biggest strategic conversations I have with business owners is about return on investment. They want more customers, more enquiries and more sales, yet many overlook one of the first places customers make a decision about their business: their online presence.

In Botswana, I still meet businesses that do not think an online presence really matters. The reality is that your customers are already looking you up before they ever contact you.

That is why I am especially excited that Business Gems is partnering with Sonia Sidhu from Instant Value Investments for our first-ever webinar, Your Digital Presence. Together, we will explore the essential building blocks of a professional online presence and how they work together to help customers find your business, trust your business and choose your business.

📅 Thursday, 30 July 2026
🕙 10:00 AM
The webinar is free, but registration is required. Grab your seat from the link in the first comment!

🎉 By popular demand, Business Gems is going online!

Join us for our first-ever FREE webinar:
Your Digital Presence

Your online presence is often the first impression people have of your business. Before they contact you, they are already searching, browsing and deciding whether they trust what they find.

Join Business Gems and Sonia Sidhu from Instant Value Investments (IVI) as we explore the essential building blocks of a professional online presence, including brand identity, domains, professional email, websites and Google Business Profiles.

📅 Thursday, 30 July 2026
🕙 10:00 AM

This webinar is free, but registration is required.
🔗 Register here: https://businessgems.co.bw/digital-presence-webinar/

30/06/2026

Yesterday, my usual Monday 5K looked a little different. I normally do it with colleagues, but neither of them was available, so I headed out on my own. Somewhere along the way I took a wrong turn. I got "lost" once, stopped, looked around, figured out where I was, and carried on. It struck me afterwards how often we approach leadership and life as though we need someone to show us every turn before we begin. We wait for certainty instead of movement.

As part of my morning journaling practice yesterday I wrote, "I don't need to know every step. I only need to become the person who takes the next one."

That's what growth looks like. Not having a perfect map, but trusting yourself enough to take the next step, adjust when necessary, and keep moving. I've found that clarity rarely appears before we start walking. More often, we discover it because we did.

Also, for the record, I successfully navigated the monkeys, only got mildly lost, and the warthog seemed completely unconcerned by any of it. I suppose that's just a normal Monday evening in Botswana.