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:

Today, failing to show someone respect is considered abusive, a borderline criminal act, requiring immediate condemnation at best, summary justice at worst. A lack of respect, which is simply a failure to admire, can end badly.

But behind our insatiable appetite for motivation lies a fundamental and damaging ignorance of what motivation actually is, and where it really comes from:

And when your identity is invested in knowing what you are talking about — being successful, being the expert and being right — when that is challenged it generates an existential crisis. Your very being is threatened.