Leaders rarely break in the crisis. They break in the long middle that follows.
Four books and eleven years of field research on what keeps teams standing after the emergency stops being news. Written for the people who have to keep going.
The Steady Middle
Leading after the emergency stops being news
The applause arrives for the rescue. The damage arrives eighteen months later — in turnover, in silence, in the good people who quietly stop offering ideas. The Steady Middle is a field guide to the unglamorous stretch where organisations actually decide what they are.
Built on 240 interviews across hospitals, shipyards, schools and one very tired newsroom.
A keynote that leaves the room with language for what they are living through.
Forty-five minutes, no slides after the first, and a closing exercise your leadership team will still be quoting at the next offsite. 62 stages since 2019 — conferences, boards, union halls.
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Renata Ossei · Chief People Officer, Harbourline Health (fictional)
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