The Loneliest Job in the Building: What Gallup Reveals About How Leaders Really Feel
Leaders report higher life satisfaction than the people they lead, and more stress, anger, sadness and loneliness within the day. Gallup's 2026 data shows engaged leaders reverse the pattern entirely. Here is why leader resilience is a business issue, not a perk.
VUCA, VUCA Prime or BANI? Why Resilience Has to Come Before the Acronym
Is BANI replacing VUCA? It is the question L&D professionals keep asking, and it is the second question, not the first. VUCA, VUCA Prime and BANI describe the weather; none of them builds the boat. Drawing on Gallup's 2026 data, new meta-analyses on leadership and coaching, and fresh UK research, Russell Harvey makes the case for building and role-modelling resilience first, so the frameworks have something to stand on.
Why Capable Leaders Reach Out for a Coach — And What the Evidence Says About Why It Works
Three separate strands of research — leadership agility, transformational change, and coaching triggers — converge on the same point: capability alone is not enough. Context is where a coach makes the difference.
From VUCA to BANI: What the Next Wave of Leadership Research Means for Your Business
Leadership research is beginning to shift from VUCA towards BANI — brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible. Here is what that means for how organisations should be developing their leaders.
Psychological Safety Isn’t Optional: Why Your Best Leaders Can’t Be Agile Without It
Leaders are not resistant to change — they are often responding rationally to organisations that punish the very experimentation and speed they are asked to deliver. Psychological safety is the missing condition.
Three Capabilities Every Resilient Leader Needs: Cognitive Agility, Emotional Intelligence and Behavioural Adaptability
Recent leadership agility research names three developable capabilities that determine how well leaders respond to volatility and uncertainty — and shows how each maps to The Resilience Wheel.
The Real Reason Change Programmes Stall: What a Meta-Analysis of 5,651 Leaders Reveals
A 2026 meta-analysis of 5,651 leaders found leadership effectiveness in change is highly context-dependent — generic change leadership models consistently underperform against diagnosed, context-specific approaches.
Why Agile Leaders Still Get Stuck: The Organisational Conditions Behind Leadership Agility
A 2025 review of 116 studies shows leadership agility depends on more than individual capability — the organisation has to supply psychological safety, information and decision latitude before that capability can show up.
What Your Organisation Is Learning From Other Organisations — and Why It Probably Isn’t Enough
Inter-organisational learning — the deliberate transfer of knowledge and insight across organisational boundaries — is one of the most consistently underused and most evidenced resilience-building practices available, and this blog makes the case for building it deliberately, introduces The Forward Table as its structural embodiment, and connects it to the Support dimension of The Resilience Wheel at organisational scale.