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Dr Imogen Hale is the author of four books on leadership under sustained pressure, including The Steady Middle. A former logistics director turned researcher, she has spoken on 62 stages in 11 countries and writes a Sunday letter read by 34,000 leaders.
Dr Imogen Hale writes about what happens to organisations after the emergency ends. She spent a decade in logistics operations, including a warehouse fire whose aftermath cost her two thirds of her management team, before completing a doctorate at the Lowry School of Management on recovery in shift-based work. She is the author of The Recovery Habit (2016), Small Brave Things (2019), Hold the Line (2022) and The Steady Middle (2026), and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Public Services. She speaks to boards, conferences and whole-staff events in 11 countries, and lives in Edinburgh.
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