When Leadership Feels Like a Slog - and What to Do About It
When leadership feels like a slog, the usual advice is to audit your calendar, set better boundaries, and prioritise recovery. But if you're a purpose-led founder or leader, you know that's the wrong diagnosis. The exhaustion you feel isn't a time-management problem. It's an alignment problem. This piece explores what that means - and what to do about it."
How I Facilitated the People’s Emergency Briefing - on the Weekend the Government Sent a Wildfire Alert to Every UK Phone
On Saturday afternoon, 120 people packed into a Parish Hall on the Sussex coast to watch watch the People's Emergency Briefing, a film about the climate and nature crisis. Just 24 hours earlier, every phone had gone off with the UK government's biggest-ever wildfire alert. This is what happened in that room - and what it taught me about hope-centred leadership in practice.
Strategic Hope and Leadership: Where Is the Hope-Centred Leadership This Moment Requires?
This is the third in a series on Strategic Hope. If hope is what people need most from their leaders - overwhelmingly, across every culture and context - then where is the hope-centred leadership this hinge moment requires? And what does it look like for the founders and leaders building the future they want
Mapping the Purpose Landscape: Where Your Business Sits
Most founders don’t realise their business is already purpose-led. This is the first in a series about the Purpose Landscape where and how purpose really shows up.
Strategic Hope: Why It Matters at a Hinge Moment
This is the fifth in a series on Strategic Hope. The world is shifting in ways that affect every founder and leader building with purpose and ambition. This piece explores why hope-centred strategy matters more at this hinge moment than it ever has - and what it means for the business you're building.
The Gallup Global Leadership Report: What Followers Want - and Why Hope Matters Most
If someone asked you what people need most from their leaders, you'd probably say trust. Or stability. Or clear communication. When Gallup asked this question across 52 countries - accounting for 76% of the world's adult population - the answer that dominated everything else was hope. At 56%, it wasn't even close. Here's why that matters.
Shane Lopez: The Psychologist Who Taught the World to Practice Hope
Shane Lopez grew up in Louisiana believing his future was determined by his past. Then he discovered that hope - not IQ - is the strongest predictor of where people end up. He spent the rest of his career proving it, measuring it, and teaching the world to practise it. His work inspired everything I do.
Hope Theory: The Science Behind Hope-Centred Strategy
Most of us grow up understanding hope as an emotion - something warm that arrives when we want to believe things will work out. The psychologist C. R. Snyder saw it differently. Hope, he argued, is a way of thinking about how to reach our goals and create the future we want. Here's how it works.