Campbell Macpherson

Campbell Macpherson is a sought-after speaker and international business adviser on leadership, strategy and change. He is an Anglicised Australian based in the UK and can be found wherever his clients need him to be. Campbell is an Executive Fellow of Henley Business School and author. His first book, The Change Catalyst (Wiley 2017), won 2018 Business Book of the Year in London. His second book, The Power to Change: How to Harness Change to Make it Work for You (Kogan Page 2020) was a Highly Commended Runner-Up in the 2021 Business Book Awards. His third book, You: Part Two (thriving in the second half of your life) was co-authored with his yogi wife, Jane Macpherson, and was published in 2021 by Hachette. All of his books are available from Amazon US & UK and Booktopia in Australia. More information about Campbell can be found Here.

Campbell Macpherson is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

CEO Agenda

The 8 Components of Extraordinary Leadership Teams

CEO AgendaCampbell Macpherson

Leadership is a team game, not a solo pursuit. Leadership teams are critical to every organisation’s success – and they exist at all levels of an organisation. Leadership teams set the strategy, are responsible for the delivery of the strategy, create the culture and set the tone and the example for...

the lehman trilogy at the gillian lynne theatre

CEO Advisory

The moment that Lehman Brothers lost the plot – when they abandoned their ‘Strategic Core’

CEO AdvisoryCampbell Macpherson

I was lucky enough to see The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London last month. What a brilliant play: sharp script, clever set, perfect direction, simply brilliant performances. Every second of the three hours and twenty minutes was unmissable. But there was one moment in particular that...

CEO Insider

Extraordinary Leadership

CEO InsiderCampbell Macpherson

In my 25+ years of enabling business leaders to lead successful and sustainable change, I have determined that extraordinary leaders possess three core, critical skills: The ability to deliver results The ability to influence, motivate and empower people (Emotional Intelligence) The ability to build extraordinary leadership teams Poor leaders possess...

Success and Leadership

Lessons in leadership from this era of uncertainty

Success and LeadershipCampbell Macpherson

I would like to share some of the insights I have gleaned from the delegates of the Leading Change and Embracing Change webinars I have been running since March 2020. Lessons about change, about anxiety, about coping with uncertainty, about leadership. Several of the insights are revelations. Others are reminders...

Education and Career

The 5 key truths about change

Education and CareerCampbell Macpherson

It is 25 years since I first encountered ‘change’ as a discipline and began helping leaders to instigating change. And everything I have learned about change over the last quarter century can be distilled down to five key truths. At first glance, they may appear to be blinding glimpses of...

Executive Insider

The secret to leadership today? Helping your people to want to change.

Executive InsiderCampbell Macpherson

88% of change initiatives fail, according to a 2016 report by Bain & Co. And while we can argue about the percentages, the fact that the vast majority of change initiatives, business strategies, mergers and acquisitions fail to deliver – is irrefutable. But we can be among the 1 in...

CEO Insider

The must-have skills to accept and embrace change in a COVID world

CEO InsiderCampbell Macpherson

Covid-19 has hammered home something we already knew – that change is inevitable and often completely out of our control. It has also taught us that we have no choice but to accept it – good change, bad change, even change that we didn’t ask for. We can try to...

Tech and Innovation

How an oncologist is hitting Big Tobacco where it hurts – in the wallet

Tech and InnovationCampbell Macpherson

The Kubler-Ross Change Curve is well known – the sequence of emotions that we all experience when major change is done to us. But there is another change curve that no-one warns us about. I call it ‘The Quantum Leap Change Curve’. It is the sequence of emotions that we...

CEO Advisory

Does Joe Biden’s election mark the end of Tribal Leadership?

CEO AdvisoryCampbell Macpherson

The entire Western World and roughly half of the United States breathed a sigh of relief when Joe Biden was inaugurated as US President earlier this year. After four years of narcissistic leadership when facts were fungible and truth an irrelevance, it was a moment of hope. Hope that leadership...