Best Leadership Training Companies in Australia (2026)
Best Leadership Training Companies in Australia (2026) Updated July 2026 · By the LeadershipHQ team Choosing a leadership development partner is one of the highest-leverage decisions an organisation makes — and one of the hardest, because the Australian market spans global franchise programs, boutique consultancies and everything between. This guide profiles eight of the strongest […]
Leading Through AI Without Losing Our Humanity
JULY 2026 · Leading Through AI Without Losing Our Humanity THE EXECUTIVE BRIEF BY SONIA McDONALD Hello, Welcome to the very first edition of Leadership Intelligence™. Every month, I’ll bring together the best thinking from around the world — Harvard Business Review, McKinsey, MIT Sloan, Deloitte, Gartner and leading researchers — then share what it […]
FOBO: Leading When Your Team Fears Becoming Obsolete
The story of 8,500 phone calls, a robot named Billie, and what neuroscience says about the fear quietly killing your AI strategy. How do we get here? FOBO: Leading When Your Team Fears Becoming Obsolete. In 2021, IKEA’s parent company faced a decision that thousands of businesses are now staring down. They had built an […]
The Uncomfortable Truth About HR Leadership
The Uncomfortable Truth About HR Leadership (And Why Courage Is the Only Way Through) HR leadership doesn’t fail in strategy. It fails in moments. The moment a leader needs to be held accountable and nobody does it. The moment toxic behaviour gets named in an exit interview and then quietly filed away. The moment everyone […]
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE KPMG CRISIS
When the partners are running for the exits, leadership has already failed. Let me set the scene for you. It’s 2026. One of the most prestigious professional services firms on the planet is in freefall. The CEO is gone. The COO is gone. The head of audit is gone. Partners — people who spent decades […]
Soft (aka Human) skills in big demand as AI enters workforce
Hot take: The most valuable thing you can do right now is NOT learn another AI tool. It’s learn how to be more human. We know, we know. Every other newsletter is telling you to master your prompts, automate your workflows, and 10x your output before breakfast. And look — we’re not anti-AI. But here’s […]
The Disappearing Middle Manager
The Lead – the leadership newsletter for people who lead — and those figuring out what that even means anymore. Half of Them Will Be Gone by the End of This Year Let’s not bury the lede. The Disappearing Middle Manager. Gartner predicts that by the end of 2026, organisations using AI to flatten their […]
LAW ONE: LEADERSHIP ISN’T A TITLE. IT’S HOW YOU SHOW UP UNDER PRESSURE.
THE LAWS OF LEADERSHIP: 52 Laws. One year. Everything they didn’t teach you about leading. LAW ONE: LEADERSHIP ISN’T A TITLE. IT’S HOW YOU SHOW UP UNDER PRESSURE. WELCOME. I didn’t set out to write a leadership series. I set out to make sense of the moments that broke the ones that quietly rebuilt me […]
The Leadership Compass – Five Pillars That Separate Leaders Who Last From Leaders Who Just… Lasted
The Leadership Compass™: Five Pillars That Separate Leaders Who Last From Leaders Who Just… Lasted Let me start with something that might sting a little. Most leadership development is cosmetic. A two-day offsite. A personality assessment with a colour-coded report you glance at twice. A keynote from someone whose main qualification is that they once […]
When Leaders Really Fail (And No One Calls It Out)
Let’s get something straight. Leaders don’t fail because they’re stupid. They don’t fail because they skipped your half-day workshop with the stale muffins and recycled slides. They fail in moments. Small, high-pressure, emotionally charged moments where their brain goes into protection mode… and leadership quietly disappears. And the worst part? Most of the time… they […]