15/09/2026
After a keynote, someone almost always comes up and asks the same question.
"How do we give our people that, rather than just hear about it?"
For a long time I didn't have a good answer.
I've spent a fair bit of my life making decisions a long way from help. Crossing the Tasman in a kayak. Walking to the South Pole and back, unsupported, dragging everything we needed behind us. Neither of those taught me anything while it was going well. They taught me somewhere in the middle, when the plan had stopped working and there was nobody to ask.
That's the part I've never been able to hand over in forty-five minutes.
So I built LeaderX. Two days and one night in the Blue Mountains. Abseiling, canyoning, a night at Base Camp under a sky with nothing in it.
Three things make it work.
I host all of it. Start to finish, no handover to a facilitator, in country I've been taking people into for years.
Everyone in the room comes from a different organisation. Nobody is performing for their boss, and nobody has a reputation to protect.
And it's two days, not one. The shift almost never lands on day one. It lands on the second morning, when people are tired enough to be honest with each other.
It runs once a year. The next one is 16 and 17 November.
Curious what actually moved the needle for you at that point in your own career. What was it?
