Leadership Transformation

Leadership transformation is the process through which an organisation fundamentally changes how it leads, makes decisions and enables people to work together.

Leadership innovation is about inventing new ways of leading, organising and collaborating before existing approaches reach their limits.

The skills shortage

Management and skills shortage

I have watched more than one organisation spend a fortune hunting for a rare external expert while the person who could have done the job sat two desks away, bored and about to resign. The skills shortage is the growing…

The psychological health decline

The psychological health decline a manager owns

I want to be careful with this one, because behind every statistic in it is a person having a hard time. The psychological health decline is the steady rise in stress, anxiety, burnout and distress that people carry into and…

loss of meaning at work

Meaning at work: what a manager can actually fix

I have run enough sessions on the meaning of work to know the moment it goes quiet in the room. Someone says, carefully, that they used to care about the job and are not sure where that went. They have…

trust crisis and management

The trust crisis and the manager’s last reserve

I have sat in a lot of rooms where a senior leader, halfway through a workshop, quietly admits that they are not sure they deserve their own job. It happens more often than any org chart would suggest, and it…

Climate anxiety at work

Climate Anxiety is now the manager’s job description

I have watched a lot of climate strategies get written, funded and framed on office walls. I have watched far fewer managers get equipped to answer the team member who asks, on an ordinary Tuesday, whether the project they are…

The 7 management crises

These management crises gather several crises that managers and executives must answer. These management crises are anything but new! And yet I have still seen no training, no workshop and no keynote designed to prepare managers to bring constructed, structured…

ecology of work

Your workplace is an ecosystem, not a machine

I am writing a book on regenerative management for Gereso, and to introduce it I have to start with the idea underneath it: the ecology of work. In one sentence, regenerative management is my answer to the interconnected crises pressing…

Managerial invulnerability diagnostic

The invulnerable manager diagnostic

The invulnerable manager diagnostic starts from an uncomfortable idea: a manager can be highly competent and structurally fragile at the same time. Competent because they deliver results, absorb the emergencies and keep the organisation running. Fragile because the team would…

Tomorrow's manager in the business of the future, regenerative management

The Management of Tomorrow: What Actually Survives

Thinking about the management of tomorrow is probably a waste of time, and I say that as someone who gets paid to do it. The first reason is that the concept keeps moving underneath the forecast. I now speak more…

Sustainable Career: The Permacareer Method

Sustainable Career: The Permacareer Method

Building a career on the same skills in the same sector, year after year, has become the professional equivalent of planting one crop across an entire paddock. It works beautifully until the season it does not. That thought is what…

Train all your teams in management|How to train your staff in management

Management training for everyone, not just managers

Former vos collaborateurs au management, TOUS vos collaborateurs et pas seulement les managers, revient à développer l'autonomie, la responsabisation et l'inclusion des collaborateurs dans leur expérience managériale.