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Rewriting Leadership Norms

Most leadership advice tells leaders to adapt — to read the room, manage up, adjust their style. It rarely questions the room itself.

Rewriting Leadership Norms does that. Each piece examines a widely accepted leadership norm — where it came from, what it actually serves, and what a more rigorous alternative looks like. The thinking draws on organisational research, neuroscience, and two decades of watching how decisions about people actually get made inside complex institutions.

Rewriting Leadership Norms has two formats. The shorter, sharper takes live on LinkedIn. The longer-form pieces — deeper analysis, more practical guidance — are published here.

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Built to Stall

4 May 2026

Built to Stall

Most cloud strategies are approved before the organisation has decided how it will work. The operating model clarity that determines whether transformation succeeds is not a follow-up conversation — it belongs in the strategy itself.

Technology Can Do Almost Anything

21 April 2026

Technology Can Do Almost Anything

The work that precedes optimisation, deciding what the parameters are, which problem is worth solving, and what trade-offs are acceptable in the solving of it, is not a technical problem. It is a human one. And that is where leadership begins.

Someone Else's Urgent

14 April 2026

Someone Else's Urgent

You cannot lead well from depletion. You cannot think clearly, listen carefully, or make sound decisions when you are running a deficit, and the people who depend on your judgement deserve better than your exhausted best.

What Actually Builds Trust

31 March 2026

What Actually Builds Trust

Because trust is not built in what you say about how you lead. It is built in how predictable, understandable, and safe you are to work with.

You Don't Need the Armband to Lead

24 March 2026

You Don't Need the Armband to Lead

What Caitlin Foord and Steph Catley did after the Matildas' final says more about real leadership than any title ever could.

You’ve Already Given Enough

6 March 2026

You’ve Already Given Enough

A different reading of ‘Give To Gain’ for women who are already giving everything I want to start by saying I love the intention behind this year’s International Women’

Knowledge is Not Wisdom

11 February 2026

Knowledge is Not Wisdom

In leadership, knowledge earns entry. Wisdom is the judgment to apply it in context — and that is where trust is built. Most organisations are full of highly knowledgeable people. They

Leading When Your Team is Grieving

4 February 2026

Leading When Your Team is Grieving

I am writing about work right after redundancies – but applied to every leader who needs to lead after change, sadness, reorgs, or loss. Last week was hard, and now there’