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Y-Connect Most leaders are watching their teams quietly fracture and don't know how to fix
it.

We rebuild those teams using The Kintsugi Method™, so the cracks become the
gold that holds them together and your business performs again.

"Thank you Yoke Van Dam for the inspiring and transformational keynote. On the 1st of September the School of Accounta...
29/09/2026

"Thank you Yoke Van Dam for the inspiring and transformational keynote. On the 1st of September the School of Accountancy, in the College of Accounting Sciences at the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika got time to pause, reflect, and reposition our thoughts and actions and most importantly, to evolve as we spring into a new season.

I appreciate that you collaborated in line with what we believe in - teaching and training to unleash potential. We might have competed for the Woman of Stature Awards South Africa for the Education and Training Award, but we have successfully collaborated for greater sustainable impact, which confirms that there should not just be positive competition, but greater collaboration too!"

We once sat with a group of leaders and asked them to walk through the different levels of change. Environment. Behaviou...
10/09/2026

We once sat with a group of leaders and asked them to walk through the different levels of change. Environment. Behaviour. Values and beliefs. Skills. Identity.

One person stopped cold at identity. That's where the real issue had been hiding all along, underneath every behaviour we'd been trying to fix.

That's the conversation Yoke van Dam had with Dr Bill Price on this episode of Leadership Lyrics, and we called it exactly what it was. An autopsy on leadership.

Here's the problem so many businesses are living with right now. Leaders go on a course, try something new for a few weeks, it feels uncomfortable, and they drift back to old habits. Not because they didn't try. Because the change was plastered onto them instead of woven into who they are.

Dr Bill has spent two and a half decades working across 48 countries, and his research on 1,426 managers uncovered the real journey every leader walks through, from follower to intelligent follower to manager of self to manager of others to leader. Each shift depends on one thing before anything else can happen: self-permission.

We also dug into why toxic culture is never random. It's built meeting by meeting, and most companies are measuring everything except the one thing actually driving their profit or costing it.

If you've ever wondered why a leadership investment didn't stick, this episode will show you why, and what to do differently.

https://youtu.be/_hmJlC2Ao50

08/09/2026

How do you move from being a follower to an intelligent follower?

On this episode of Leadership Lyrics, I sat down with Dr Bill Price to do exactly what the title promises. An autopsy. We cut leadership open and looked at what's actually happening underneath the models, the courses and the personality tests.
Here's the problem most companies are quietly living with. They send leaders on training, the leader tries something new for a few weeks, it feels awkward, and they drift back to their old patterns. Not because the training was bad. Because it was never woven into who they are. It was plastered on like a bandaid.
Dr Bill has spent two and a half decades working across 48 countries, and his research on 1,426 managers uncovered something I haven't stopped thinking about: leadership isn't a title you're given. It's a journey from follower, to intelligent follower, to manager of self, to manager of others, to leader. Each shift needs one thing before it can happen. Self-permission.
If you've ever wondered why your best people plateau, or why a leadership programme didn't stick past month one, this conversation will reframe how you think about the problem entirely.
🎧 Listen to the full episode of Leadership Lyrics, link in the comments.

https://youtu.be/_hmJlC2Ao50

10/06/2026

When you are going through change and uncertainty? Would you like to learn from someone who faced massive change on an identity, health, body, country and relationship level?

Adrienne Gibson, who is a master in facilitating change in international organisations, came to my Leadership Lyrics Podcast to speak about something very personal...

When she had to undergo a major Personal change in her life,
and how she had to realise: No one was coming to save her.

If you want to make a change, and you are stuck, fearful, or not sure what steps to take, this podcast will be a lifesaver.
Save the link below to be reminded of when it goes live
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08/06/2026

Leadership lessons from Top Gun: Maverick

Maverick is handed a room full of elite fighter pilots and told to prepare them for a mission so dangerous that command isn’t sure anyone will come back alive. He wasn’t chosen because he had a teaching qualification. He was chosen because he was one of the best. And that’s precisely where his trouble began.

The trap of being the best

Most people reach leadership because they were exceptional individual performers. The best salesperson. The sharpest analyst. The most technically skilled person in the room. That competence earns trust, credibility, and eventually a promotion. That is when something shifts. The job is no longer to do the thing brilliantly. It’s to help others do the thing at all.

This is the transition Maverick resists, and the one most leaders stumble through. The skills that got you here are not the skills that will grow your team.

Read the article (link in bio)

Your best people don't just leave for more money. 💛They leave because they stopped feeling seen.Swipe through for 5 thin...
03/06/2026

Your best people don't just leave for more money. 💛
They leave because they stopped feeling seen.
Swipe through for 5 things that actually keep star performers engaged — and if you want to go deeper, the full article is on the website. Link in bio. 🔗
Save this if you lead a team. 📌

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26/05/2026

Watch the full episode, linknin bio.

As the leader, you should shine the light on your team. You are no longer the star performer.

26/05/2026

🎙️ Have you ever lost a great employee and not seen it coming?
The signs were probably there.
Gaurav Rampal uses horses to show leaders what their teams already know about them.
👆 Swipe up for the full episode — it might be the most confronting thing you listen to this week. 🐴

18/05/2026

Most people think personal branding is about looking polished. It is not.

It is about closing the gap between how you see yourself and how the world actually experiences you.

Today I ran a masterclass with coaches and facilitators and one moment said it all. A participant described himself as creative. But when we compared self-perception with how others see you, that strength was invisible to everyone around him.

He had it. They just could not see it.
That is the real problem for most leaders. Not a lack of substance. A lack of visibility.

If you are not shaping your story intentionally, someone else is doing it for you.

Two questions worth sitting with today:
When someone Googles you tonight, what story do they find?

What strength do you have that the people you most want to reach simply cannot see yet?
Your personal brand is a business asset. Start treating it like one.

Save this if it hit home. Share it with a leader who needs to hear it.
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