For the last twenty years, I have been on a mission of sorts, working with leaders and teams around the world to help them reassess their understanding of what it means to create dynamic, engaged organisations…
Category: Coaching
Why Leadership is Private Equity’s New Frontier
Private Equity value creation is no longer being driven solely by the usual strategies of financial restructuring and cost optimisation.
Focus is shifting towards powerful but less obvious levers for value creation: leadership and culture.
Unlocking Profitable Growth in Private Equity
As many as 60% of private equity-backed turnarounds struggle to achieve their investment goals, because of overwhelming process complexity, and a lack of effectively supported leadership.
But we can help you completely transform the odds…
What makes a question useful?
Questions have the power to set the tone for a conversation. Or transform it.
Quality questions can unlock everything. And certainly aren’t reserved just for coaches and facilitators.
Quality questions are for everyone.
Alone at the top: why CEO’s struggle with loneliness and Imposter Syndrome
From Henry V to Citizen Kane, the story of the lonely leader is not a new one, but the turbulence of modern business is making it worse, with increasing evidence of Imposter Syndrome creeping in too.
This powerful cocktail of driven self-doubt and isolation is taking its toll.
How do we recognise the symptoms? Who is likely to suffer most? And what can we all do about it?
What can cockroaches tell us about performance anxiety?
It turns out that cockroaches get stage fright.
Who knew?
But that insight might just be key to unlocking high performance in our teams…
What’s so super, hero?
With their extraordinary powers and determination to do the right thing, superheroes continue to capture our imagination. But behind their masks lies a darker story; one that reflects the complexities of leadership and our very human condition.
In reality, superheroes are us, writ large…
What might we learn from superhero culture, both toxic and inspirational?