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For the first time, people are Googling "jobs that help people" more than "jobs that pay well." That is not the whole story.
For years, one of the top career searches was "careers that pay well." Predictable. Sensible

Sarah-Jane Last
4 days ago7 min read


Too Much of a Good Thing: What High Empathy Really Looks Like in the Workplace
Too Much of a Good Thing: What High Empathy Really Looks Like in the Workplace

Sarah-Jane Last
6 days ago6 min read


How to get a Senior Leadership team back to High Performance
Senior team conflict isn't a relationship problem, it's a performance problem

Sarah-Jane Last
May 198 min read


When Working Harder and Faster Stops Working
Why are humans, who are clever enough to put rockets into space, so cruel to themselves?

Sarah-Jane Last
May 197 min read


You Were Brilliant at the Bank. But Did Anyone Teach You How to Manage?
The investment banking world produces some of the sharpest minds in finance. It also produces some of the most undertrained people managers we have ever worked with.
Joanna Floyd BSc, MSc
Apr 238 min read


The Attention Economy Is Quietly Undermining Your Organisation
There’s a moment most leaders recognise but rarely stop to examine. You reach the end of a full day. Back-to-back meetings. Dozens of messages. Constant decisions. You’ve been busy relentlessly so.

Sarah-Jane Last
Apr 155 min read


You're not too busy. You're just badly scheduled.
Save this one. Share it with your leadership team.

Sarah-Jane Last
Apr 146 min read


Most organisations approach change backwards (Here's what the research actually says)
When a change programme fails, the post-mortem usually blames the communication plan. Or the training rollout. Or the project governance. did we create the conditions for people to actually want to engage?

Sarah-Jane Last
Mar 315 min read


The Leaders Nobody Fully Sees
There is a particular kind of leader we work with a lot. Brilliant. High-functioning. Often magnetic. The person everyone in the room looks to. And carrying, quietly, an enormous amount

Sarah-Jane Last
Mar 247 min read


Who Are You When It Costs You?
AI company Claude emphasizes ethical standards and privacy, prioritizing them from the start. Anthropic was offered $200 million. All they had to do was say yes. They said no. Not because they could afford to walk away. Not because the decision was easy. But because saying yes would have meant becoming something they had promised, publicly and in writing, they would never be. But this is not a story about AI . It is a story about ethics under pressure. About what organisatio

Sarah-Jane Last
Mar 109 min read
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