Stuart's

Leadership Insights

Ideas, frameworks, and perspectives on building leadership capability that scales.

Building Leadership Capability at Scale: An Architecture Approach

I've built this three times now: inside my own consultancy, and twice more rebuilding it for clients who'd already burned a year and a training budget on the wrong approach.

Methodology

What Causes Leadership Development Programs to Fail?

I've reviewed a lot of failed leadership development programs, and almost none of them failed because the content was bad. They failed for structural reasons that had nothing to do with the curriculum.

Measurement

How to Measure Leadership Capability Across an Organisation

CEOs often can't answer a simple question: is leadership capability in this business better than it was a year ago? Not because the answer doesn't exist, but because nobody's actually measuring it.

Leadership Architecture

What Is Leadership Infrastructure and Why It Matters

Every business I've worked with has leaders. Very few have leadership infrastructure. The difference is why some scale smoothly and others rebuild leadership from scratch every time someone senior leaves.

CEO

Executive Coaching or Leadership Systems: Which Should You Invest In?

CEOs ask me this constantly, usually while already leaning toward one answer. The honest response depends entirely on where the actual problem lives, not on which option sounds more serious.

Executive Teams

How to Realign an Executive Team That's Lost Alignment

By the time a CEO tells me their executive team has lost alignment, it's usually been true for months. The good news is realignment is a specific, sequenced piece of work, not a mystery.