Exploring the psychology, strategy, and mindset behind transformational change. Insights from 20+ years of coaching leaders and teams through organisational transformation.
When delivery timelines and budgets become the goal in themselves, organisations can hit every milestone and still miss the point. Drawing on a large IT rollout inside a major UK organisation, this piece explores why outside-in thinking, starting with what customers actually need, makes the difference, and how tools like the Kano Model and Jobs to Be Done help get there.
Exploring self-efficacy and Bandura's theory: how your beliefs shape success in business and organisational change. A deep dive into the 4 sources of self-efficacy and how to build belief in yourself and your team.
Why organisations struggle with culture transformation and the critical role leadership behaviour plays in making real change stick. Discover why coaching cultures are transformational, not transactional.
Why safe, authentic friendships are essential for nervous system regulation and how psychological safety with others restores our mental health and resilience.
Why high performers avoid honest conversations with their leaders and how learning to give clear, productive feedback creates stronger relationships and psychological safety.
Why human-centered design alone isn't enough, and how systems thinking reveals the uncomfortable truth about what's really going on.
It took thirty years for the science on smoking to enter public consciousness. What the history of tobacco legislation teaches us about the debate on children and social media, and why imperfect legislation is the beginning of change, not the answer.
Cognitive dissonance, the brain's constant question of "am I safe?", and why people rarely resist change for the sake of it. Four practical ways to create the conditions that make change feel possible, from a coach who once quit smoking using long multiplication.
Everyone said they were happy to be here, and everyone was exhausted. The psychology behind that dichotomy: schemas, cognitive load, allostatic load, and five evidence-based things that help while your brain recalibrates.
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