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Every leader I work with says “fine” in the first session.Nobody is ever just fine.It’s not lying. Most of us were just ...
13/10/2026

Every leader I work with says “fine” in the first session.

Nobody is ever just fine.

It’s not lying. Most of us were just never given the words. Happy, sad, angry, and then off you go to run a team.

The trouble is, what you can’t name, you can’t manage. It just leaks out sideways. Usually at the people you care about most.

So today, one word more accurate than “fine.”

Mine: caffeinated and cautiously optimistic.

Yours? Drop it in the comments.

Follow along if you lead people and are also, technically, fine.

13/10/2026

Last call.
One space left on the October Leading Under Pressure cohort. Starts 29th. Registration closes 16th.
The room is senior leaders from hospitality, retail, charity and growth businesses. Different sectors. Same pressure.
Next cohort isn’t until 2027.

09/10/2026

Some days I feel like the luckiest person alive.

I get to sit with leaders right in the middle of the pressure. Stuck, unsure what comes next, unable to make the call.

Then I get to watch them come out of it thinking clearly and moving forward.

I do this because I’ve been that leader. Senior roles in big corporates, across lots of industries. Performing at my best and still struggling.

Pressure isn’t the problem. Pressure is useful.

What matters is how you move through it. Calmly. Knowing yourself. Staying human.

That means connection, trust and safety. Teams need it. Businesses need it if they want to hit their numbers. You need it if you want to last.

I had to figure that out for myself first.

Now it’s my job.

You’re not bad at the job. You’re just winging half your calls and praying nobody clocks it. Six sessions. Two hours a m...
09/10/2026

You’re not bad at the job. You’re just winging half your calls and praying nobody clocks it.

Six sessions. Two hours a month. Six months where you stop hiding that and start dealing with it.

Leading Under Pressure group coaching. October’s cohort starts 29th.

Registration closes 16th, only 2 spaces left.

Not trying to rush you. Just don’t want you finding this on the 17th going “did I miss it.”

Sitting on this one? This is the window. DM me “group” and I’ll sort the rest.

Nothing happens if you keep sticking your head in the sand about needing help. No crisis. No wake-up call. Just the same...
08/10/2026

Nothing happens if you keep sticking your head in the sand about needing help.

No crisis. No wake-up call. Just the same meetings, same firefighting, same “I’ll sort it once this settles down” that’s been running for months, because at your level, asking looks like weakness.

October’s cohort starts 29th whether you’re in the room or not.

Leading Under Pressure group coaching. Registration closes 16th, only 2 spaces left.

The only thing that changes between now and Christmas is whether you’re still carrying this the same way, or whether you’ve invested in six sessions to shift it.

Comment “group” and I’ll send you the details.

My parents could picture two futures for me. Working the tills at Woolworths, or cleaning out a horse yard. Not said unk...
07/10/2026

My parents could picture two futures for me. Working the tills at Woolworths, or cleaning out a horse yard. Not said unkindly, just what they could actually see.

Getting out of that became the driver.

Then Scott Robertson came along and didn’t seem to have got the memo. Threw me into things I had no business being ready for, and backed me to figure it out anyway. More than once my honest internal reaction was closer to “what the actual”, but he never blinked.

Turns out quiet isn’t the same as nothing going on. People just can’t always see what they’ve never been shown.

Who’s the person who saw something in you before you could see it yourself?

Six months from now, you’re either still fighting the same fires. Or you’re not. That’s it. That’s the choice, whether y...
05/10/2026

Six months from now, you’re either still fighting the same fires. Or you’re not.

That’s it. That’s the choice, whether you make it consciously or just let the deadline pass and default into “next time.”

Imagine the version of you who actually deals with the decision instead of sitting on it.

Who says the hard thing instead of managing around it.

Who’s not the bottleneck anymore.

That version starts 29th October. Registration closes 16th, only 2 spaces left.

Leading Under Pressure group coaching. Comment “group” and I’ll send you the details before the door shuts.

Three summers on the same horse. The horse hasn’t changed.Between the first and the last, I quit corporate and went self...
01/10/2026

Three summers on the same horse. The horse hasn’t changed.

Between the first and the last, I quit corporate and went self employed. Gave myself room to think properly for the first time in a long while.

Turns out that’s where the clarity came from. Where are you still gripping, and what’s it costing you?

Formentera Retreats

No hidden pricing. No “let’s jump on a call to discuss investment.” Just the number. Leading Under Pressure group coachi...
01/10/2026

No hidden pricing. No “let’s jump on a call to discuss investment.” Just the number.

Leading Under Pressure group coaching.

For people who need somewhere to actually think, not another framework to file away.

Self-funded: £1,200 for the full series, or £200 a session. Org-funded: £1,800 for the full series, or £300 a session.

Same programme either way. Same six sessions, same room, same “get your s**t together” energy.

Not going to make you DM me three times to find that out. If it’s not right for you, better we both know now, not after a discovery call that goes nowhere.

Registration for October closes 16th, only 2 spaces left. DM me “group” and I’ll walk you through it.

Feeling overwhelmed by everything right now? One person on a recent Leading Under Pressure cohort was. A restructure had...
30/09/2026

Feeling overwhelmed by everything right now?

One person on a recent Leading Under Pressure cohort was.

A restructure had been sitting on their desk for months. Not because they hadn’t thought it through. Because they had, and knew exactly what it meant.

People they liked, good people, just not the capability the business needed going forward.

So it didn’t move. Easier to keep it in “still thinking” than actually decide, especially with everything else stacking up around it.

One session on deciding under uncertainty, and within a month, half the plan was done.

Not because the answer got easier. Because they stopped waiting for it to feel comfortable before acting on it.

Uncertainty doesn’t go away. What changes is how long you let it sit before you move anyway.

Comment “group” and I’ll send you the details.

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