Resources
Free tools for new leaders.
Articles, worksheets and podcast episodes from eight years of coaching. Start with the two-minute self-check if you’re not sure what to read first.
Leadership self-check
What’s holding your leadership back?
Six quick questions about your real week. You’ll get one of four leadership patterns, three things to try this week and the program that fits best.
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Four patterns
The Expert Doer
Still doing the work you were promoted for.
The Peacekeeper
Kind, but the hard conversations wait.
The Firefighter
Always available, rarely ahead.
The Lone Navigator
Clear on the plan; the team isn’t.
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Leadership self-check
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The library
Articles, worksheets and episodes
12 resources
Article
Delegation · Featured
How to delegate without disappearing
The difference between handing off and abandoning, and the three check-ins that keep quality high without hovering.
9 min read Read the article: How to delegate without disappearing →
Article
Feedback
The feedback note: five lines for hard conversations
Observation, impact, question, request, support. A structure short enough to remember in the moment.
7 min read Read the article: The feedback note: five lines for hard conversations →
Article
Confidence
Your first thirty one-to-ones
What to ask, what to write down and how to turn a status meeting into the most useful half hour of their week.
11 min read Read the article: Your first thirty one-to-ones →
Article
Strategy
The calendar audit: decide, inform or habit
A one-week exercise that usually frees four to six hours, and the uncomfortable conversations that come after.
6 min read Read the article: The calendar audit: decide, inform or habit →
Article
Confidence
Feeling like a fraud is a sign you’re growing
Why almost every new manager feels underqualified, and what to do with the feeling instead of hiding it.
5 min read Read the article: Feeling like a fraud is a sign you’re growing →
Article
Career
Build a promotion case your manager can champion
Promotions are decided in rooms you’re not in. Give your manager the one page they need to argue for you.
8 min read Read the article: Build a promotion case your manager can champion →
Article
Strategy
Run a meeting that ends in a decision
Agenda as questions, a named decider and a decision log. Three changes that cut most leadership meetings in half.
7 min read Read the article: Run a meeting that ends in a decision →
Worksheet
Delegation
The delegation ladder
Five levels from “do exactly this” to “decide and tell me later”, with a page to plan each person on your team.
PDF worksheet · 3 pages Get it with the free guide: The delegation ladder →
Worksheet
Career
One-page leadership brief
The template clients use to describe the leader they want to be in a year, in behaviours others would notice.
Template · 1 page Get it with the free guide: One-page leadership brief →
Worksheet
Feedback
Feedback conversation planner
Plan a hard conversation in ten minutes: what you saw, why it matters and the one thing you’ll ask for.
PDF worksheet · 2 pages Get it with the free guide: Feedback conversation planner →
Podcast
Feedback
Ep. 42: When your friend becomes your report
How to keep the friendship and still do the job, with three managers who’ve been there.
34 min listen Listen to the episode: Ep. 42: When your friend becomes your report →
Podcast
Delegation
Ep. 41: Founders who can’t let go
Two founders on the year they stopped approving every decision, and what it cost them to wait.
41 min listen Listen to the episode: Ep. 41: Founders who can’t let go →
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Podcast
The First Hundred Days
Honest conversations with people in their first year of leading, every other Tuesday. Forty-two episodes so far.
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Ep. 42: When your friend becomes your report
October 6, 2026 · 34 min
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Ep. 41: Founders who can’t let go
September 22, 2026 · 41 min
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Ep. 40: The one-to-one, reinvented
September 8, 2026 · 29 min
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