CEO Advisory

After 18 years of owning and operating a marketing and web design firm, I ran into a problem. I knew that our industry was changing, and that some of our current opportunities may not be there in the future. With the rise of new technologies, custom websites were far less...

Most folks who read my books and articles know that I am a big believer in the importance of returning common decency back into our leadership approach. With the global pandemic continuing to wreak havoc on many people’s emotional states, decency is more important now than ever before. Indeed, working...

If leading through exponential change feels relentless right now, it’s time to get in front of change fatigue, writes Ciara Lancaster. Revelations of an absence of duty of care from organisations have surfaced.  A joint Australian HR Institute (AHRI) and The Wellbeing Lab study found that, “Over a third of...

Growing up it always seemed like the majority of people around me knew something I did not. They were more successful than me, yet it did not seem like they were working harder than I was – if anything, it was the opposite scenario. In hindsight, there are a few...

COVID-19 has forced companies around the world to be agile and shift quickly. For many, that shift has come in the form of digital transformation efforts. According to a global McKinsey report, the share of products and services that had been partially or fully digitized by December 2019 was only 35%....

Overload. Overwhelm. Fatigue. These are just a few of the words I have heard people use to describe their work and life.  But the number one word that’s come up more recently, I hadn’t heard before – relentless. People are moving hard and fast. They are delivering more than ever,...

Increasingly, boards are recognizing that leadership accountability is a critical issue they need to be considering. Many of the directors I speak with realize that the organizations they serve have leadership accountability gaps. The gaps may be with the executive team or leaders at other levels of the organization. At...

Training people swiftly with business values is becoming more important towards overall success. Studies from Nielsen and Engage for good highlight companies’ values and social responsibility are a core consideration for both customers and employees: especially millennials (over 70%) who use it amongst criteria when electing who to work for....

“Somebody once told me the definition of hell: On my last day on this earth, the person who I became will meet the person I could have become, and those two people are total strangers. But somebody also once told me the definition of heaven: On my last day on...

Surely, you must have heard about creative directors in the fashion industry. Let me tell you this, they are inseparable to the industry. But, do you know what they do? To put it in simple words, a creative director provides a vision to the brand or project he is a...