Brian Sands

Brian Sands is a strategy advisor and interim executive. As an advisor to Boards and Executive teams designing strategy, implementing change and developing people his insights originate through managing large-scale, high-risk, low-margin construction and property businesses. He is also the author of Stop The Bleeding – A Mind Shift Through Business Crisis Management... Thinking and Doing Everything Differently. Brian Sands is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Follow him on LinkedIn.

Tech and Innovation

10 Resilience Building Initiatives that will Create a Culture of Confidence

Tech and InnovationBrian Sands

In an organisational context resilience is a label that often attaches to its leaders ability to take on the full force of disruption, to dust themselves off and to soldier on. Resilience is actually about emotional strength - our ability to adapt and bounce back when things are not going...

CEO Insights Lifestyle and Travel

Six insights that can underpin your leadership style

CEO Insights Lifestyle and TravelBrian Sands

Should you decide you want to be a leader – whether you have been selected to or not – your apprenticeship as a great follower can provide the foundation for that step. However, the risk in this or any transition is that you have not learned how to lead yourself...

CEO Insights Tech and Innovation

How frontline leadership accelerates business transformation

CEO Insights Tech and InnovationBrian Sands

The traditional concept of frontline leadership conjures up images of a CEO rallying the troops and defending their competitive perimeter. However, the scale and pace of disruption that is now business as usual has transformed this concept to include anyone within an organisation that is managing a tactical response of...

Tech and Innovation

The Five Resilience Indicators That Unlock Discretionary Effort

Tech and InnovationBrian Sands

To be a leader in todays’ business environment, you need an ability to set strategy, to show empathy and to make decisions. In fact, leadership is a strategy in itself, an enabler, a how. It’s about co-creation not domination, and it originates with a mindset. In any position of responsibility,...

Tech and Innovation

Putting People Before Profit – Creating a Culture of ACE people

Tech and InnovationBrian Sands

Who would’ve thought that an infectious disease could create the economic crisis that it has, and brought the world to its knees, to the extent that it has? Obviously, this is now top of mind…. both its global scale, and its personal impact. Aligned, capable and engaged people will be...

Success and Leadership

START WITH THE END IN MIND: The Compelling Reason For Being In Business.

Success and LeadershipBrian Sands

In fear of stating the obvious, the business environment within which we operate is in a constant state of flux brought about by aggressive macro-economic conditions in a hyper-connected global marketplace, accelerated by technology. There is a lot going on. The scrutiny on investment and expenditure. The interrogation of risk...

CEO Advisory

Can’t Fight This Feeling – Why it Matters How A Team Behaves When No-one Is Looking

CEO AdvisoryBrian Sands

Whilst the lyrics of this 1980’s REO Speedwagon song describes an unwavering commitment since receiving clarity and direction, in an emotional setting, it is not unlike the emotional connection that every leader seeks when building a culture inside an organisation. Almost everything we think and do, starts and stops with people. There was a...

Brian Sands

10 Resilience Building Initiatives that will Create a Culture of Confidence

Six insights that can underpin your leadership style

How frontline leadership accelerates business transformation

The Five Resilience Indicators That Unlock Discretionary Effort

Putting People Before Profit – Creating a Culture of ACE people

START WITH THE END IN MIND: The Compelling Reason For Being In Business.

Can’t Fight This Feeling – Why it Matters How A Team Behaves When No-one Is Looking

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