In business, it is easy to become fluent in the language of systems. We speak about strategy, structure, performance, governance, efficiency, risk, roles, outputs and results. These things matter. Organisations need discipline, direction and accountability. They need clarity about where they are going and how they will get there. Also, beneath every system is a human being. Beneath every leadership team are people carrying pressure, purpose, responsibility, fear, loyalt

Every organisation has a life beneath its visible systems and structures. There are plans, roles, strategies, priorities and performance measures. There are also relationships, histories, hopes, tensions, loyalties, silences, ambitions and unspoken fears. At Aspirall, we work in the space where these dimensions meet: the strategic and the human, the visible and the less visible. For more than fifteen years, we have partnered with boards and executive leadership teams who are

We have invested in smart, capable and experienced leaders. Individually, they are excellent and deeply committed to the organisation's success. So why does it feel like our Executive Teams are not leading the organisation as a whole?