Writing on leadership,
the body, and what shifts
Occasional writing — not a schedule, just when something is worth saying. On embodied intelligence, what the science actually tells us, and what becomes possible when you stop leading from the neck up.
Why Good People Fail in Good Organisations
Early in my career, I was brought in to transform the onboarding and project functions at a fintech. The brief was clear and genuinely exciting: redesign how clients were onboarded, how projects were run, and manage the exit of a number of existing clients who no longer fit the portfolio.
I had a committed, capable team. People who cared about the work and knew it inside out.
We failed to transform anything of significance.
Not because the people weren't good enough. Not because the brief was wrong. Because the environment we were operating in made transformation impossible. Everything ran on fear.