Posts in Inside the Work

Designing for change isn’t prediction - it’s creating space to adapt. Why good plans fall apart, and how resilient organisations prepare.

Resilience through reinvention: upgrade the system that runs your life. Build career adaptability, cope with change, and create space for growth.

Why do most change initiatives fail? A human look at change management psychology, emotional decision-making, and how leaders influence behaviour.

Discover why great leaders aren’t good at everything - and how embracing the incomplete leader mindset builds stronger teams, clearer direction and resilience.

Bureaucracy kills resilience faster than failure. Learn how organisational reinvention helps leaders move before the plateau - not after.

Burnout recovery for anyone one spreadsheet away from a breakdown - because apparently crying in Excel still doesn’t count as professional development.

I’ve spent most of my career trying to figure out why we humans can survive a global pandemic, build rockets to Mars, and map the[…]

In 2011, I worked on a PR gig so ridiculous it still sounds like a fever dream: we flew Seal to Cape Town to croon[…]

Stability looks safe. But in business, stability is the corporate equivalent of eating plain toast forever – bland, predictable, and guaranteed to kill you slowly[…]

Most teams aren’t lazy — they’re overloaded and unprepared. Here’s why change trips them up and how to fix it before the next crisis hits.