Ideas & Insights
A living notebook.
Articles, research and reflections — an ongoing inquiry into leadership, learning, wellbeing and what helps people and organisations move well through change. Filter below for what you're in the mood for.
Research · Research
What the evidence really says about positive psychology at work
Beyond the slogans: a short tour of where the research on strengths, meaning and wellbeing actually holds up — and where it doesn't.
Article · Capability
From skills to capabilities: what the next decade actually asks of us
We talk endlessly about skills gaps. The real shortfall is deeper — the transferable muscles that let people keep learning, adapting and leading through change.
Research · Research
The transition economy in numbers: what the workforce data is telling us
A short read of recent UK workforce, retirement and AI-adoption data — and what it implies for how we develop people over the next ten years.
Article · Transition
Passenger or driver? Reclaiming agency in the transition economy
Too many of us are being asked to navigate vast change while being treated as passengers. The work — for leaders and for ourselves — is to put people back in the driving seat.
Reflection · Practice
On creating spaces where people come alive
A short note from the playground — what I notice about the rooms, retreats and conversations where something actually shifts.
Reflection · Leadership
The quiet courage of leading through uncertainty
Courageous leadership is rarely loud. More often it looks like staying in the room, telling a truer truth, and being willing to not yet know.
Article · Wellbeing
Wellbeing is not a programme — it is a culture
You cannot yoga-app your way out of a culture that drains people. Wellbeing lives in the everyday decisions leaders make about pace, priority and permission.
Article · Framework
ME → WE → US: a working theory of flourishing
One movement, three scales. A short note on the signature framework behind my coaching, leadership and organisational work.
Reflection · Leadership
Cognitive load is the silent leadership tax
Leaders are not running out of strategy. They are running out of bandwidth. Naming that — and designing for it — is the leadership challenge of our time.
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