A meaningful life isn’t built on perfect choices

Angelina Eynon reflecting on what makes a meaningful life

One of the questions I hear most often in coaching isn’t about careers, promotions or leadership. It’s about meaning. It usually arrives disguised as something else. Am I on the right path? Have I made the wrong choices? Is this really how I want to spend the next ten years? What if I’ve missed my […]

Strengths-Based Development: Improving from a Place of Strength

Angelina Eynon with Dr Zen Goh discussing strengths-based development

This week I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Dr Zen Goh, Chief Examiner of the Professional Development unit I teach into at Monash University. Zen is creating a series of interviews for our students and invited me to speak about my twenty-plus-years’ experience of learning about, working with, applying and teaching strengths and […]

Why I love the ‘Orange Army’

Here I am in London in 1996 during the UEFA European Championships. I’d just moved to the UK. I was finding my feet, making friends and slowly building a life that felt like home. Football (or soccer, as we insist on calling it in Australia) had always been part of my upbringing. My dad was […]

Reflections from the IPPA World Congress 2025 in Brisbane

I’ve just returned from my 4th International Positive Psychology (IPPA) World Congress. Admittedly, I went with mixed feelings – excited to be reconnecting with people in the field and to be listening to and learning with researchers and practitioners from around the world. But I also felt some trepidation and a deep wondering about the […]

Myth-busting women in leadership and confidence issues

Women lack confidence. Women have imposter syndrome. Women don’t ask for what they want. More information – what else do you need to know that will help you trust your decision-making and at what point are you prepared to not know? More time – does every decision need to be made “now” – if you […]