For leaders in high-accountability operation environments who want the science without the self-help bullshit. Twice weekly.
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Oh Fu*k. Authenticity Is A Luxury Good Paid For With Privilege!
Authenticity is not equally safe.
The more power, status, and cultural familiarity you have, the more of your “true self” you can bring to work without paying for it. Everyone else learns to codeswitch, mask, and edit. We change the clothe...
I spent three years refining my second brain so you don't have to. Stop putting out fires and get strategic.
If you implement a personal knowledge management system, you will:
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Be more organized.
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Forget less important shit.
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Have more mental bandwidth for strategic thinking.
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Make better decisions and use time more wisely.
Thi...
Leaders Who Want Engagement, Go the Fuck To Sleep.
This isn’t your normal Substack post. I will challenge you. I will ask you to consider primary sources. I will admit my own failure and expect you to self-admit yours. I will ask for growth.
Gurus, vibe-coaches, posers,… turn back now.
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Find Your Blind Spot Before It Finds You
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The standard hierarchy of teams and corporate structures puts leaders in a spot beyond feedback and awareness.
For so long have we treated leaders as individuals beyond critique that we’ve built entire institutions around protecti...
The Official Meeting Playbook for Leaders Who Want High Performance Results Without Turning Into A Stinky Corporate Goblin
In high-consequence work, meetings are where risk moves around the room until someone either owns it, hides it, misunderstands it, or accidentally turns it into a quarterly initiative.
If you manage a team doing important work, safety-crit...
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Anti-Bullshit Leadership and EQ Writing. Because how you lead matters. The Updraft: management science for leaders in high-reliability environments. Kestryl Edge: Company updates. Founder @ Kestryl Edge, LLC.
I write about designing organisations, careers and lives by design, not by default, so you can bring your whole self to all three. 12+ years in startups&small businesses. Building IKIGLOO, a life design brand for multi-passionate people, on the side.
20+ years in Fortune 500 HR Leadership. Now I'm the mentor I wish I'd had, teaching what the degrees and certifications don't. Leadership. Confidence. You don't have to figure this out alone.
Addressing leadership from a birds eye view because how you lead matters
Leadership is never neutral. It either expands people or diminishes them. | Writing on leadership, culture, and team performance to challenge perspective and deepen awareness. ✨ | Author of Disengaged, Fall ’26
Ex-corporate leader + lawyer. I quit my UK job for nomadic expat life. Now I help corporate professionals and business founders become confident people leaders. I write about everyday leadership practice and finding personal and professional freedom
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