About The Fir & Myrtle (TF&M)

Like Fir and Myrtle trees, it’s all about growth and flourishing. Here's a snapshot of what The Fir and Myrtle (TF&M) is all about—including who I am - The Founder, Dr Lola-Peach Martins.

The Fir and Myrtle (or TF&M) is the name ascribed to my collective long-term offerings to the leadership personal and professional development community, particularly in the London Borough of Barnet.

The Offerings

(1) EALL&D course/toolkit: Is my equine assisted leadership learning and development programme offered through online or in-person workshops. EALL&D also has a Quarterly Newsletter for personal and professional development.

(2) RiTR Creativity and innovation is my art-based programme for leadership personal and professional development with a focus on creativity and innovation. The programme consists of online or in-person workshops

(3) IRLR [Ir]responsible Leadership lab is the name ascribed to my research lab for responsible leadership development in response to UNPRME for responsible leadership education. The lab offers research-based and practice based literature, and workshops on responsible leadership, and a Board Game and App in this regard

(4) Journal of a Professor or JoAP: This is my private YouTube channel offering documentary-based research into life history of leaders. JOAP also offers workshops in this regard. 

(5) The Executive Coach and Mentor or TECaM is the name ascribed to my coaching and mentoring. TECaM offers online, in-person or group coaching sessions.

(6) MWP: Multidimentional Women Pioneers is the name ascribed to my women in leadership personal and professional learning and development programme, as well as the  Newspaper-magazine. 

Each of these leadership and development offerings are based on the principles of lifelong learning and continuous personal and professional learning and development, and leadership praxis. Let's face it, not everyone has innate leadership qualities. However, it is a well-known fact that they can be developed if learning is intentional, continuous and in-depth. Did you know that learning can be surface/passive or in-depth/intentional? Did you know that  there‘s a strong connection between in-depth/intentional learning, authentic and responsible leadership, which also requires wisdom? Did you know that Wisdom and progression in leadership, personal and professional development go hand in hand?

I’m Lola-Peach Martins and a multipotentialist, but with a proclivity towards leadership Learning, and Personal, and Professional Development. Being a multipotentialist means that I have a wide range of qualities, including being able to recognise rare patters and  make sense of the unknown. In addition, I'm able to facilitate  the development of a wide range of qualities in leaders.  

I have a proven track record/portfolio of over 20 years experience as a Senior Academician/Researcher, Consultant/Collaborator, Coach and Mentor at one of the UK’s renowned Universities for student satisfaction and research. In addition, I‘ve gained over 20 years’ experience in creativity and innovation, applying creative and immersive techniques in designing and delivering courses in leadership learning and development. Such techniques include for e.g. a variety of art-making activities, gaming; and more recently equitation, I operate under a collective brand name TF&M, and aim to support and facilitate your learning journey towards flourishing in your personal and professional leadership role i.e., without crashing out.

My portfolio of experience spans across the globe, therefore, I understand that leadership is a major challenge, and life in general can be rough and tough. That is why I offer essential tools and workshops to facilitate the continuous learning, unblocking and unlocking of leadership, personal and professional potential. Such potential enables individuals to embrace profound learning and development opportunities, and therefore flourish.

For the learning and development pathways, I use/offer various methods and techniques: workshops (online or in-person), one-to-one, audio visuals, hardbacks and paperbacks, boardgames, Apps, social media platforms.

Let’s stay on tack developing essential competences by embarking on the EALL&D programme—using the toolkit and/or attending the workshops. Or you could enhance your personal and professional development through mindful and meditative art-making. Or you could engage with and learn through JoAP audio visual research, perusing carefully sourced and impact-based articles, and storytelling; or through IRLR you could gain insight on [ir]responsible leadership, and reflect as you study reports, and play the IRLR game. Through TECaM you could have one to one coaching and mentoring—have meaningful, in-depth conversations to set implementable objectives, maximise your potential to fulfil what seems like an impossible task—make the best decisions. Coaching and/or mentoring can also be undertaken prior to, during workshops or as a follow-up session.
 

Through TF&M I aim to facilitate your leadership, personal and professional development learning journey, in gaining profound insight into wise and intelligent ways to master who you've been called to be and do what you've been called to do, leadership-WISE.

I invite you to come and engage with a unique leadership learning community that supports the unleashing and sustainability of authentic and responsible leadership potential.

I sincerely hope you’ll embark on this unique soul-satisfying path of self-discovery, learning and development experience. 

1) EALL&D - Equine Assisted Leadership Learning and Development 

EALL&D offers an online executive and senior leadership course. Delivery is online and pre-recorded, although one-to-one or group sessions can be arranged. The main approach is self-coaching.

Undoubtedly, online learning is popular. Furthermore, the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) studies confirmed that in the last decade leadership coaching and mentoring shows no sign of abating,, with various factors influencing growth in demand i.e. including the use of online platforms for learning and development.  

2) RiTR - Refuge in The Rock

RiTR offers Faith-based personal empowerment workshops. RiTR also runs exhibitions and other unique reflective spaces. These art-based mindfulness-meditation, and spiritual self-empowerment spaces, workshops and exhibitions focus on specific ancient Scriptures that draw attention to the essence of living a Spiritually focused life based on a critical metaphor - “The Rock.” During these events participants learn how to gain wisdom and full confidence in decision making as they focus on The Rock - take refuge in “The Rock”  for e.g., and learn much, much more about connecting "The Rock" to sustainable personal and professional development. The RiTR way includes Coaching and Mindfulness, (e.g. reflection and paying attention - from a Christian perspective), Meditation (e.g., focus and prayer from a Christian perspective), and Cristian Rock-Art.