Most leadership development focuses entirely on adding new knowledge — and almost never addresses what needs to be let go first. This blog introduces unlearning as the critical, overlooked precondition for genuine behaviour change, connects it directly to the Attitude and Meaning dimensions of The Resilience Wheel, and makes the case that it is the most underinvested capability in leadership development.

Most senior leaders know what they should be doing differently — this blog explains precisely why they do not do it, where in The Resilience Wheel the gap most commonly lives, and what the Strengthscope psychometric adds as an alert system for the moments when established patterns override good intentions.