“To AI or not, is that the question?”

For nearly three decades, Dawn Stallwood has sat at the intersection of power, principle, and people. She is a corporate and commercial lawyer turned Leadership Counsel and Chief Integrity Officer, and one of only 770 Notary Public’s in the UK. Her practice environment has evolved – in-house, private practice, UK Top 100 Law firm partner, business owner and independent consultant. Dawn has supported owners, boards, senior leaders, and teams across sectors and geographies in deals, collaborations, growth, business as usual and crisis response. Her practitioner life has shown that deals collapse, value is lost, teams fracture and reputations fail, not because of bad strategy, but because we fail to prioritise the human side of leadership.

As a Notary Public, Dawn is the quiet witness in rooms where signatures and transactions decide futures. What she saw behind the paperwork, especially during the Global Financial Crisis, changed her course. In 2010, she founded Floodlight Business, an integrity and impact platform supporting business owners, founders and leadership teams as they navigate value creation, professional relationships,collaboration and legacy.

Turning 50 in 2024, Dawn marked her ‘half-time’ by pouring her experience into a proprietary framework built on Nine Beautiful Qualities and Ten Leadership Practices that make leadership truly attractive, authentic and impacting.