What Today’s Leaders Can Learn from The Odyssey
By Professor Agathe Mezzadri-Guedj
With The Odyssey hitting cinemas this summer, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what the ancient hero Odysseus can teach...
Why There is No Such Thing as a Finished Leader
By Professor Debbie Bayntun-Lees
New research across 350 global leaders and employees surfaces six practical shifts that redefine what “better” leadership truly means in today’s...
Why Changing Careers Does Not Mean Leaving Your Value Behind
By Dr. Claire Handby
In a world of accelerating workplace transformation, the professionals who move forward best are those who learn to reframe and reapply...
Why Silent Leaders May Shape Future Organizations
By Fernando Díez, Elene Igoa, Elena Quevedo, and Josune Baniandrés
In increasingly noisy organizations, silent leaders may build deeper trust, stronger cultures, and more sustainable...
Why AI Compliance Must Start Inside Your Browser
By Matt Smith
European businesses are racing to meet EU AI Act obligations, but most are overlooking the place where their greatest governance exposure actually...
The Confidence-Building Power of Being Yourself as a Leader
By Julie Smith
Authentic leadership builds multi-layered confidence: your self-trust, the trust others place in you, and the confidence of team members who feel free...
Removing the Barriers to Diverse Leadership: Why Real Progress Requires Systemic Change
By Aidan McKearney
In spite of the moves that many organisations have made towards promoting diversity in leadership roles, their staff progression systems may still...
How Successful Founders Become Their Own Bottleneck
By Dennis Kuipers
Many growing companies stall because critical decisions, relationships, and knowledge remain concentrated around the founder instead of the organisation.
Founder dependency is one...
Leadership Lessons from Difficult Bosses: Does Command and Control Still Have a Place in...
In the wake of Miranda Priestley's return to the big screen, leadership experts and authors examine why the fear-based management she exemplifies is losing...
The Tired Brain: Why Leaders Make Worse Decisions Under Pressure
By Kate Pearlman-Shaw
It’s not rocket science: our brains don’t work well when we’re under pressure and fatigued. Here’s what’s happening, and what to do...
Why Resilience Isn’t Just Being Tough, but How You Bounce Back from Failure
By Dr Melisa Buie
Dr Melisa Buie explores why resilience is the ability to learn, adapt and grow stronger through failure - rather than...
The Seven Nutrition Habits of Highly Effective Women
By Dr Linia Patel PhD, RD, MBDA
Award-winning dietitian Dr Linia Patel reveals the seven evidence-based nutrition habits that help high-performing women sustain energy, focus,...
The New Collaboration Challenge: Leading Through Complexity, Uncertainty and Human Connection
By Guy Lubitsh
When businesses face complex problems, we might suppose that a process of collaboration is more likely to deal with them effectively than,...
How Custom Box Sizes Provide the Right Fit for Every Packaging Requirement
Today, packaging is no longer just for carrying products it has become much more than that. Boxes serve multiple purposes, including protecting products, acting...
How F1 Can Help Businesses Drive Their AI Strategies
By Chalan Aras
Formula 1 teams win through seamless data flow, observability and rapid decision-making. Enterprises pursuing AI success need the same foundations.
Formula 1 (F1)...
Why Enterprises Struggle to Move AI from Experiment to Production
Interview with David Villalón
The future of AI belongs not to those with the best models, but to those who can orchestrate systems, governance, and...
The Democratisation Tax: Why Modern Enterprise Leaders are Evolving from Aggregators to Synthesizers
By Tariro Mutizwa
Navigating the systemic friction of decentralised C-suites now necessitates that CEOs move beyond strategic aggregation to master the discipline of active strategic...
AI is Good at Finding Answers. Leaders Must Find What’s Missing
By Francisco Veloso
Judgement is becoming an increasingly valuable leadership skill. Developing it requires more opportunities to have our assumptions challenged, not fewer.
AI excels at...
How a Personal Board Can Accelerate Professional Growth?
By Emma Maslen
Successful leaders assemble trusted boards of advisors who broaden their perspectives, challenge thinking, and support development. Here’s how to leverage your network...
Why European Businesses Are Turning to Partnerships, Consolidation, and Cross-Border Growth
Interview with Javier Alfaro
Exploring how adaptability, consolidation, and international expansion are helping European businesses remain competitive amid uncertainty, shifting market conditions, and evolving global...
From Control to Empowerment: Leading Organizations in the Age of Independent Work
Interview with Mikko Teerenhovi of Xolo
Organizations everywhere are facing a fundamental leadership challenge: how do you manage work when people can increasingly manage it...
Financial Services for the Unbankable: The Journey of Global Mortgage Group
Interview with Donald Klip and Robert Chadwick of Global Mortgage Group (GMG) and America Mortgages
Asset-rich but bank-poor? Now there's help on hand to release...
Agentic AI is Scaling Faster Than Organisations Can Govern It
By Mick Leach
Agentic AI is accelerating enterprise automation, but governance, visibility, and accountability are struggling to keep pace with rapidly scaling autonomous systems.
For most...
How High-Performance Leadership Shapes Growth in Fast-Changing Industries
Interview with Miquel Angel Mora of Tauniqo.ai
As industries evolve rapidly, leaders must balance execution, innovation, and resilience to scale businesses while maintaining clarity, culture,...
Why Digital Trust Is Becoming a Competitive Business Advantage
Interview with Gonzalo Alonso
As digital interactions expand, organisations are rethinking trust, identity, and fraud prevention to balance security, privacy, and seamless customer experiences.
Digital trust...
Why a Successful Leader is an Engaging Storyteller
By Ang Brennan
Most strategies fail not because they're poorly designed, but because leaders haven’t yet developed the storytelling skills to make them live and...
Harnessing Human Empathy and Vision for Leadership in the AI Era
By Ambika Zutshi, Dr Andrew Creed, and Patrick J. Murphy
True leadership energises, empowers, and inspires through integrity and genuine care. Artificial intelligence can amplify...
Leading with Clarity and Speed in a Global Digital Product Landscape
Interview with Dina Usolceva of Yesim
As digital products scale across borders, leaders must navigate complexity while maintaining simplicity, reliability, and user trust. Dina Usolceva...
CEO Tenure, Succession, and the Value of the Firm
By Jerry Haar, Siddharth Upadhyay, and Vaibhav Mishra
CEO turnover has risen notably over the last decade. Globally, CEO departures across major indices are now...
Board Simulations are Key to Future-Proofing Your Business
By Shefaly M Yogendra, PhD
Board drills or simulations sharpen leadership’s ability to anticipate future challenges, react calmly to ‘black swan’ events and leverage opportunities...
Is This It? What to Do When Achieving Your Career Goal Doesn’t Bring Fulfilment
By Rob Cross
Many leaders reach their biggest goals only to find fulfilment missing. Here, Rob Cross explores why achievement doesn’t complete us—and what truly does.
He sat across from...
Empowerment in Action: Turning Skilled Managers Into “Freedom Coaches”
By Helen Beedham
Genuine empowerment starts with skilled managers who coach for clarity, care and constancy - turning everyday teamwork into high-trust, high-freedom performance.
‘We want...
The Silent Tax Your Executive Team is Paying Every Day
By Samantha Frost, Rafa Loyo and Caleb Hawkins
Imposter syndrome isn’t an HR problem - it’s a hidden performance tax quietly compounding at the top...
Architect of Decision Sovereignty Across Finance, Law and AI
Interview with Massimiliano Ferraris
As AI moves upstream into how decisions are formed, are organizations still truly in control or simply operating within systems they no longer fully understand?
Governance expert Massimiliano Ferraris reflects on how artificial intelligence is reshaping decision-making,...
From Corner Office to On-Demand: A New Era of Executive Life
By Sara Daw
Fractional leadership is reshaping the C-suite, giving organisations flexible access to senior expertise while enabling executives to work across multiple roles with...
Europe’s Leadership Test: Confidence, Not Capacity, Is the Missing Ingredient
By Nicole Junkermann
Europe’s greatest challenge is not capacity but confidence. Nicole Junkermann believes that leaders who act decisively can turn uncertainty into growth, investment,...
The Leaders Who Flourish: Why Graceful Power Outperforms Dominance
By Sally Netherwood
Graceful Power enables leaders to inspire commitment, navigate complexity, and build trust-driven teams without relying on dominance. Sally Netherwood shows how congruence,...
How Leaders Can Thrive Within the System by Meeting Fear Differently
By Rochelle Trow
Fear in leadership rarely looks obvious. It shows up as silence, careful alignment, or rushed decisions - shaping judgement and influencing outcomes...
Here’s How to Have the Difficult Conversations at Work
By Johan Depraetere
Letting people go can be the toughest conversation we have to make. Here, Johan Depraetere reveals how to ensure these conversations are...
What Remains Human in the Age of AI: Rethinking Leadership
By Akihiko Morita
Drawing on Hannah Arendt and Alvin Toffler, this article explores leadership, meaning, and collective sensemaking in the age of AI.
What remains human...
Why Luxury Travel Is Becoming More Personal Than Perfect
Interview with Daria Guristrimba of Globe7
Luxury travelers increasingly value frictionless precision, personal relevance, and quiet certainty over visible extravagance or traditional status markers.
Luxury travel...
Why Compassionate Companies Think Beyond Profit Alone
Interview with Bruno Roque Cignacco
Businesses that genuinely support communities often strengthen resilience, trust, and long-term value far beyond traditional corporate responsibility.
Corporate responsibility is often discussed...
The Hidden Rules of Executive Presence: How Women Can Make Themselves Promotable
By Nicole Johnston
Promotions hinge on perception, not just performance. Nicole Johnston unpacks the hidden rules of executive presence—clarity, composure, and strategic thinking—and how women...
What Scaling Reveals About Power, Capital, and Judgment
By Jennifer Forbes Iannolo
In this piece, Jennifer Forbes Iannolo examines what scaling actually demands of women founders beyond narratives of access, visibility, or representation....
Why Traditional Sales Training Fails Modern B2B Businesses and What to Change
By Helen Wada
Traditional sales training fails in today’s B2B markets; Helen Wada advocates coaching-based approaches that prioritise human capabilities such as curiosity, empathy, and collaboration.
In...
Seeing What Others Miss: The Patterns Driving Modern Leadership
Interview with Louisa Loran
Across industries, strong leadership increasingly depends on seeing hidden patterns early and acting before change becomes obvious to everyone else.
Some advisors...
The In-Between Trap: When the Leader You Were No Longer Fits
By Yuliya Arsenyeva
Leadership transitions aren't strategy problems - they're identity problems. Here's the map most leaders never get to see.
There's a particular kind of...
Women are Joining Finance in Numbers, Yet Leadership Still Remains Out of Reach
By Valentina Drofa
Women may be entering finance in growing numbers, yet many still leave before reaching senior leadership positions. Despite visible progress, structural barriers...
AGI as a Governance Event: From Decision Oversight to Architectural Sovereignty
By Massimiliano Ferraris
As agentic systems generate strategic options before humans deliberate, boards must evolve from supervising outcomes to designing the very conditions under which...
AI: The Boardroom’s Blind Spot
By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor
Most companies are deploying AI. Most boards can't govern it. The gap between adoption and oversight is becoming a...
