Senior Leader
Work on the business with undefined problems in uncharted territory
Glass Ceiling
The hidden demands of senior leadership
Principle: Build a strategy that empowers decision-making.
Glass Ceiling: You were promoted on past success, but lack training to think strategically. You struggle to define problems, shape solutions, and communicate clear direction.
Principle: Build a culture that epitomises the pursuit of excellence.
Glass Ceiling: In political environments, ideas can easily clash. Without influencing skills, you can’t gain buy-in, leaving your direct reports caught in rivalry and uncertainty.
Principle: Build operational structures that enable swift execution.
Glass Ceiling: Your half-formed ideas cascade downward. Teams waste time and money interpreting your vague intent, exposing gaps in capability as skills fail to transfer upward.
These follow The Peter Principle, represented below: People are promoted based on their success in previous roles until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one role do not necessarily transfer to another.
If this sounds familiar, let’s explore how to break through. Start a conversation.
“I worked with Kenny at Heineken UK when Finance were going through a major transformation. He was quick to assimilate the nature and challenges of the business, supporting senior members of the Finance Management Team struggling with the pace of change. He has a rare combination of academic theory, very practical experience through his work in other organisations and his military background.”
Alistair Grant
Head of Procurement, Heineken UK
Mission Ready
Lead with vision. Empower with coaching. Decide with clarity.
Principle: Build a strategy that empowers decision-making.
Mission Ready: A senior leader maps out a clear strategy; vision, mission, short and long-term objectives, and practical steps. This clarity enables middle managers to align their departmental goals with the wider company direction.
Principle: Build a culture that epitomises the pursuit of excellence.
Mission Ready: When middle managers hit roadblocks, the senior leader coaches, thereby enabling them to solve problems themselves. This develops autonomy, strategic thinking, and prepares them to step into more senior leadership roles in the future.
Principle: Build operational structures that enable swift execution.
Mission Ready: The senior leader fosters an environment where managers can challenge decisions, highlight blind spots and share ideas. This prevents isolation at the top, ensures critical insights surface, and strengthens decision-making.
These principles and their corresponding actions enable individuals, teams & organisations to access flow, the sense of effortless progress, everything working as it should when it should. Below is a simplified example of how leadership roles should interconnect:
“Kenny rapidly understands the situation and challenges many of the assumptions leaders base their decisions on. I have found this to be invaluable when developing, executing or supporting new initiatives and strategies.”
Asif Moghal
Director of Design & Manufacturing, Market and Industry Development, Autodesk
Identify your blindspots
What could you, your team, or organisation achieve if your invisible barriers just disappeared?
I work exclusively with highly motivated individuals and teams who’ve hit a glass ceiling, are aware they’ve hit a glass ceiling and unable to move forward. If this describes your situation then lets discuss your options.
“Kenny is a turnaround specialist. In a very straightforward, direct and non-judgemental way, he helps individuals understand their behaviours, then how they work with and relate to others. And he does it so fast. It was life changing.”
Amanda Treend
Portfolio Chief Marketing Officer
Senior Leader
Work mostly on the business with undefined problems in unchartered territory
Glass Ceiling
The hidden demands of senior leadership.
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Principle: Build a strategy that empowers decision-making.
Glass Ceiling: You were promoted on past success, but lack training to think strategically. You struggle to define problems, shape solutions, and communicate clear direction.
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Principle: Build a culture that epitomises the pursuit of excellence.
Glass Ceiling: In political environments, ideas can easily clash. Without influencing skills, you can’t gain buy-in, leaving your direct reports caught in rivalry and uncertainty.
-
Principle: Build operational structures that enable swift execution.
Glass Ceiling: Your half-formed ideas cascade downward. Teams waste time and money interpreting your vague intent, exposing gaps in capability as skills fail to transfer upward.
These follow The Peter Principle, represented below: People are promoted based on their success in previous roles until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one role do not necessarily transfer to another.
If this sounds familiar, let’s explore how to break through. Start a conversation.
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He was quick to assimilate the nature and challenges of the business, supporting senior members of the Finance Management Team struggling with the pace of change. He has a rare combination of academic theory, very practical experience through his work in other organisations and his military background.”
Alistair Grant
Head of Procurement, Heineken UK
Mission Ready
Lead with vision. Empower with coaching. Decide with clarity.
-
Principle: Build a strategy that empowers decision-making.
Mission Ready: A senior leader maps out a clear strategy; vision, mission, short and long-term objectives, and practical steps. This clarity enables middle managers to align their departmental goals with the wider company direction.
-
Principle: Build a culture that epitomises the pursuit of excellence.
Mission Ready: When middle managers hit roadblocks, the senior leader coaches, thereby enabling them to solve problems themselves. This develops autonomy, strategic thinking, and prepares them to step into more senior leadership roles in the future.
-
Principle: Build operational structures that enable swift execution.
Mission Ready: The senior leader fosters an environment where managers can challenge decisions, highlight blind spots and share ideas. This prevents isolation at the top, ensures critical insights surface, and strengthens decision-making.
These principles and their corresponding actions enable individuals, teams & organisations to access flow, the sense of effortless progress, everything working as it should when it should. Below is a simplified example of how leadership roles should interconnect:
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decisions on. I have found this to be invaluable when developing, executing or supporting new initiatives and strategies.”
Asif Moghal
Director of Design & Manufacturing, Market and Industry Development, Autodesk
Identify blindspots
What could you, your team, or organisation achieve if your invisible barriers just disappeared?
I work exclusively with highly motivated individuals and teams who’ve hit a glass ceiling, are aware they’ve hit a glass ceiling and unable to move forward. If this describes your situation then lets discuss your options.
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he helps individuals understand their behaviours, then how they work with and relate to others. And he does it so fast. It was life changing.”
Amanda Treend
Portfolio Chief Marketing Officer