Insights on mindset, performance and resilience - helping leaders build clarity, confidence and the mental frameworks needed for long-term success.
Growth
I surveyed our 66 webinar delegates on how to sell to the C-suite and asked them: What is the single biggest challenge you face when selling to the C-suite? The number one challenge, cited by 35% of respondents, was access and attention. There are good reasons for this. Channels
Leadership
Over Christmas, I read The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. My friend Todd Wade, an excellent Chief Information Security Officer, gave it to me for my birthday. It's a warts-and-all account of how hard it is to be a CEO and the junk you have to deal with as part of the job.
Leadership
Being a CEO is highly stressful and sometimes you have to wonder why you took it all on. Hiring the wrong people, not hitting the number, deploying the wrong project - and having to ask 'have you done it yet' about 100 times a day. If everything works, the team did it. If one thing goes
Downtime
I can't face another bar, restaurant or event. I don't know what it's like in your industry, but in mine, it's all about network. For the last three weeks, it's been black-tie dinners, pub meetups, parties, lunches and glaze-eyed breakfasts. I gave up drinking alcohol a couple of years ago
Wellbeing
Not everyone is okay this time of year. The pressure is intense: family, money and reviewing success or failure can be very hard. And if you’ve lost someone - even harder. One in five adults in England now lives with a common mental health problem, according to the 2025 Big Mental Health
Downtime
Moses Itauma is undefeated at 20 and already thinking like a CEO. He's deleted Instagram, reads business books and lets his brothers handle the arguments while he handles the ring. The knockouts get the headlines. His mindset and his family strength is the real story.
Downtime
This is Stella. She might look like an ordinary cat, but don't be fooled. She is living proof that reincarnation works. Stella lives in Beckenham, a Southeast London town that was invisible to muggles until ten years ago when Kirsty and Phil made TV shows about what good value it is. The
Downtime
In my opinion, this is fishing. Spey casting for salmon on the River Tweed. You can barely see me in this photo because I have succeeded in my mission of getting away from people. But now I have two young sons who want to come fishing with me, today's fishing trips are less about listening
Wellbeing
We talk a lot about mental health, but not enough about confidence. They're two sides of the same coin - and one is being hoarded. Last night, Sir Ken Olisa, the King's Lord-Lieutenant, addressed The Transformational Leaders' Club on social mobility. He made a simple point - give young
Leadership
Good morning Thank you to those who came to the Moses Itauma interview on Tuesday. The room was stacked with brilliant people. Moses – a 20-year-old heavyweight boxing challenger with 13 wins (11 by knockout) - taught a room of executives how to think like a challenger. "I wasn't the best,
Geopolitics
I'm hosting an Executive Summary dinner at the Goring Hotel in London tonight on Geopolitics and the impact it's having on operational resilience for CEOs. We have some brilliant minds coming - from former cabinet members to chairs of some of the largest organisations. Where the debate is
Wellbeing
There’s a lot going on at the moment. I was supposed to write the AI update this morning, but my dog is on her last legs. At three years old, she has recently declined due to seizures, which may be a brain tumour. In fact, I’m now certain it is. She's pacing around the kitchen this morning
