Effective leadership in 2026 will require one great element: courage. That's where my CLARITY model starts and where most of us stall. As I say in my Keynotes, we need the ' Courage to Challeng e' our aims, methods, processes, goals, our people, our stakeholders and, most importantly, ourselves. Because leaders who don't have the courage to challenge themselves and invite challenge from others will continue in a downward spiral of their own limiting assumptions and beliefs. Y

In leadership conversations, culture is often invoked as both the problem and the solution. It’s what’s blamed when things feel misaligned, and what’s celebrated when organisations thrive. But amid the urgency to change culture, one fundamental truth is often missed: