It’s often said that being a leader can feel lonely. You can’t share how you feel with your team or your superiors. Your peers - if you have any - might not even relate. Dumping on your partner may not do that relationship much good either.

If you run an average team or organisation, 80% of your employees are likely to be disengaged - doing the bare minimum - or actively disengaged - resentful and undermining.

There’s a fight that nearly all of us are in, that consumes much of our lives, that wears us down and depletes our energy. And it’s one that we’re never going to win because it’s with ourselves.

There’s a lot going on in the world just now - turmoil, upheaval, uncertainty - and a lot of people are suffering the impact through anxiety, stress, burnout and conflict.

This week’s video is about how to navigate through all this change and how to thrive in it rather than survive in spite of it.

You have been told to be more empathetic. More vulnerable. More available to your people. And you have tried. But nobody asked how you are doing. Nobody told you that absorbing the emotional weight of an entire organisation, day after day, would leave you running on empty.

Your team looks stable on paper. Nobody's leaving. Turnover is down. The retention metrics are green. Everything suggests you've built something solid, something that works. But here's what you're not seeing: half your best people have already left.

You've read every leadership book. You've attended the seminars. You've implemented the frameworks. And yet you're more stressed than ever. Here's what nobody's telling you: the problem isn't your execution. It's that you're trying to fix an inner problem with outer solutions.

Ever felt like your efforts are ignored despite being a senior leader? This video dives into the challenges of a toxic workplace and the impact of toxic management on even the most successful individuals.

Most high performers can hold it together in difficult moments and stay composed when the pressure is on and not dump their emotions on the people around them.

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Successful But Unhappy? You're Getting a Signal

Have you ever felt the glow of success — and at the same time, a strange and gnawing dissatisfaction? A sense of achievement accompanied by a feeling of emptiness?

"You're an imposter. A fraud. A fake. And it's only a matter of time before you get found out — a paper tiger, a stuffed shirt, a house of cards.”

If that's you, you're in the majority. Every serious leader I've ever worked with carries some version of this.

Everyone wants the clout and authority that comes with executive presence, but very few actually know how to earn it. We see it everywhere: leaders with performative presence that looks good in a meeting but collapses under pressure.

The outrage you feel at the leadership behaviours we’re witnessing today? It comes from exactly the same place as the actions you find so reprehensible.

That’s not comfortable to hear. But it’s worth understanding…

Executive coaching is a multi-billion dollar industry. You’d expect it to work. Often, it doesn’t.

In this article, I’ll expose 5 flaws at the heart of executive coaching that change how you should think about leadership—and who you trust to develop it.

We tend to assume psychology helps, neuroscience explains, and psychotherapy heals. Sometimes they do. But used too narrowly, they can also trap us inside a convincing story about ourselves that isn’t actually true.

Why do they nod “yes”… and then do nothing?

Every leader hits this moment — where authority isn’t enough, logic doesn’t hit home, and nothing actually changes.

In this article, I’ll explain what’s really going on — and how to shift it.

If you haven’t been fearful — frightened even — you haven’t lived. Fear is part of the fabric of human experience.

But when it raises its ugly head to you as a leader with a team or organisation to run, the implications can be both far-reaching and devastating.

Most high performers aren’t failing — they’re operating from a model that can’t sustain them.

Are you a senior executive or entrepreneur pushing harder but feeling more depleted? You are not your job — and burnout is not the price of high performance. In this video, I expose 3 Executive Burnout Myths that quietly keep high-achieving leaders stuck in exhaustion:

In this article we explore three ways in which all but the most self-aware and emotionally intelligent are constantly compromising their mental health by indulging in addictive, repetitive and habitual cycles of thinking and feeling: