Iris Du – Our Leadership Manifestation and Behavioural Strategist
Empowering Leaders & Life since 2007
Iris Du is a leadership strategist and human behaviour expert who thrives on helping
individuals, leaders and businesses achieve the success they deserve.
Drawing on leadership, attraction and manifestation strategies, Iris works with organisations to help them leverage their natural talent to create highly engaged and high performing leaders and teams.
Creating Leaders & Teams is her passion
Boasting 18 years of leadership experience, Iris also draws on her own story of overcoming adversity to help CEOs, executives and business owners gain clarity, focus and the ability to achieve their goals faster by maximising productivity while creating trusted relationships.
Iris arrived in Australia aged 15, on her own, with no family or friends and had to fight to survive each and every day.
With persistence, she turned that adversity into opportunity, using it to grow and develop the skills she now shares with others as a leadership strategist and co-founder of the You Want Group.
Iris is a master NLP practitioner, Human Behaviour expert, Chinese metaphysics consultant and a certified conversational hypnotherapist, who thrives on empowering individuals and businesses to discover their values and passion.
Her Mission is to help you manifest the life you want
Having overcome adversity to create the fulfilling life she envisioned, Iris Du is passionate about sharing her insight with others.
Her unfailing mission is to help leaders and individuals attain the personal and professional success they desire and enjoy the life they deserve.
Wisdom from Iris
What makes a good leader in a crisis?
On 11th March, Adam Silver – the NBA Commissioner – stunned the world when he announced that the league was going into lockdown. At the time, Silver explained that the COVID-19 pandemic was too uncertain, and it was time to put the health and safety of the players...
Empathy – why it matters in leadership now
One of the people I admired most in the world is former First Lady – Michele Obama. I think she is the personification of wisdom. An African American woman who has obtained an Ivy League education, built a successful career, brought up two beautiful daughters and...
RETURN TO WORK (RTW): HOW TO PREPARE YOUR BUSINESS
The COVID-19 global pandemic has led to an explosion of buzzwords in the business world. ‘New normal’ has been circulating on hyper-speed all over the business community. So, have established words like ‘self-isolation’, ‘key workers’, ‘lockdown’ and ‘quarantine’....
Is Staff Engagement All You Need To Succeed?
Why managing upwards and sideways is just as important… Most leadership advice aimed at building, aligning, and energizing successful teams. We all know that employees who feel they are part of a team have a higher level of engagement, are more productive and...
Your True Inspiration
When I sat down to write this article, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed with the current global crisis that we’re up against. In such trying times, it is a challenge to find the motivation to put that aside and find the concentration to hit the screen and do the...
The Key to Productivity May Lie in How Happy Your Staff Are
What makes you happy to go to work every morning? Is it because the work you do is stimulating? Do you feel appreciated and valued? Maybe you’re working in a great office environment? Or could it be that you are working with some amazing people? Or is something...
Am I good enough? Why self-awareness builds successful Leaders
One of the few good things to come out of working from home is that you get more time to pursue activities that you probably wouldn’t have time to do if things were normal. I have been meaning to read Michele Obama’s ‘Becoming’ since it was published but a busy...
Ask The Elephant If You Want To Improve Productivity
In recent weeks, I have been following the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry with some interest. The Inquiry showed that systemic issues were a major contributing factor to the hotel quarantine failure that resulted in the second wave in Victoria. It started me...
Going Back: How do we Return To Work after Lockdown?
The other day one of my staff asked what a return to the office would look like. Until that afternoon, I have not given it much thought. The COVID-19 lockdown is so protracted that is has become second nature. We don’t think twice about working from home or Zoom...