Insights — FIERA Leadership
Practical essays on isolation at the top, leadership transitions, and the conversations that decide whether a team moves.
- Only 6% want your job: the leadership pipeline the great flattening destroyed: Flat structures look like efficiency and behave like debt. What happens to the managers who survive a restructure, and why the next generation has already opted out.
- You are panicking about the wrong thing: trust is not a prompt: AI is faster than you at synthesis, drafting and recall. It cannot walk into a room where people have decided not to trust you and change their minds.
- We signed. They didn’t: the contract younger leaders never agreed to: A 26-year-old negotiated a stretch project with me instead of gratefully taking all of it. My irritation turned out to be the interesting part, not his answer.
- 59% of CEOs are wrong: the empathy backlash will not age well: Executives are quietly reclassifying empathy as a luxury. The same research shows their own mental health collapsing.
- The time you cannot get back: being available at all times is not generosity: The fragmented calendar, the 9pm Sunday call, the vacation check-in. Leaders call it dedication. It looks more like a compulsion, and it has a name.
- Founder isolation: why it gets worse as the company gets better: Isolation is a structural side effect of seniority, not a personality problem, and it shows up in your decisions long before it shows up in how you feel.
- Your first 90 days in a senior role: what to decide, what to postpone: A practical plan for new executives: what to move fast on, what to leave alone, and how to build the credibility that makes later changes possible.
- How to run a leadership offsite that changes something: Most leadership offsites produce energy and no decisions. A design principle, an agenda structure, and the follow-through that makes the day count.
- What executive coaching actually is (and what it is not): A plain explanation of how 1:1 executive coaching works, what happens in a session, what it costs you in time, and when it is the wrong tool.