Boardroom Notes
Essays and field notes on leadership, judgement, and responsibility.
This Journal holds essays, reflections, and field notes drawn from boardrooms, executive coaching conversations, and lived experience across leadership, power, and responsibility.
It is not commentary.
It is thinking in public for those who carry weight, or are preparing to.
Written for CEOs, Chairs, senior leaders, and thoughtful operators navigating complexity, scrutiny, and real consequence.
Editorial Themes
Decision & Judgement
Leadership Under Pressure
Power, Responsibility & Ethics
Work, Identity & Meaning
Leadership Coaching for Startups
Leadership coaching should be a staple part of the narrative for not just large organisations, but for startups too.
Success, significance and succession
Whether you are actively pursuing leadership, purposely put on a leadership development journey or have landed into a role by just good fortune of knowing the right people, a good moment of reflection would be, what does this journey look like for me and those who I intend to serve? I would like to suggest to look at your leadership journey through the lenses of success, significance and succession.
Do you really want to bring your whole self to work?
When we tell people they can bring their whole self to work what does that mean?
Is it a utopian ideal or something that is real?
(source Rodrigo Borges de Jesus)
Maybe you’re not a leader, and that’s OK
Maybe it’s OK to recognise that by function or title, being a senior manager is ok. Reward them well for what it is that they do but don’t be afraid to have that honest conversation. Maybe you are not a leader.