Michael’s Insights

Breaking Free from Paralogistic Leadership
Today's business environment is more demanding than ever. We face rapid technological change, constant corporate reinvention, and the relentless pressure to do more with less.

Why Training Your Team Beats Replacing Them
Employee turnover is expensive. Really expensive. Yet many companies still choose to replace underperforming employees rather than invest in training them. This approach might seem like the quick fix, but the numbers tell a different story.

Psychology Determines Business Performance
Most business leaders operate within the comfort zone of predictable outcomes. They set "realistic" goals, plan for "reasonable" growth, and celebrate "modest" successes. But what if this approach is limiting your potential?

How to Change Your Business Expectations
Your team's mindset isn't just about workplace culture—it's the invisible force driving your bottom line.
The collective psychology of business teams shapes everything from decision-making speed to innovation capacity.

A Leader's Guide to Thriving Through Change
Change isn't just happening around us—it's accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Yet most business leaders I work with describe feeling trapped in a paradox: they know they need to evolve, but the very demands of managing change consume all their energy, leaving little room for the strategic thinking that drives real transformation.

Exceptional Sales Growth Through Innovative Thinking
Sales success doesn't come from following the same playbook as everyone else.
Truly exceptional growth happens when teams dare to think differently and challenge conventional approaches.

Why the World's Largest Brands Are Investing in Sales Psychology
Global brands are discovering that the secret to sales success isn't always found in restructuring departments; it's in understanding how the human mind works.

Anyone up for a ‘Job Swap’?
Just imagine trying to convince any sane company CEO that organising ‘Job Swaps’ for the purpose of improving performance at all levels is a sensible idea. Sounds ridiculous however, it only works!

Imposter Syndrome
‘Imposter Syndrome’ - More and more, when working with individuals and companies, is this phrase being identified as a mindset which prevents the opportunity of being at the very best in terms of delivery, performance and innovation.

The Dark Side of the Moon
The Dark Side of the Moon has to be one of my all-time favourite albums (shows my age) and when looking back over the past year, depicts all that has gone on in the world of change, business transformation and leadership. My three great passions.

The Colour of Belief
A rather small and innocuous word that hides a multitude of performance woes and yet little is written or possibly understood about its importance, or even how to change it for the better.

Cultural Toxicity
How real is this issue in this modern age of leadership and more importantly what is the impact and cost to our businesses from this bedfellow.

Change Management
If there is ever a phrase to inspire confidence to shareholders and owners alike then this must be the phrase of the century. A new form of “change management” in disguise.

Bespoke Scientific Interventions
If there is ever a phrase to inspire confidence to shareholders and owners alike then this must be the phrase of the century. A new form of “change management” in disguise.

Business Transformation (Really?)
If there is ever a phrase to inspire confidence to shareholders and owners alike then this must be the phrase of the century. A new form of “change management” in disguise.




