Leaders LoopSkills Toolkit
Plain-English explainers on the core knowledge and tools of leadership, and a short Skill Check after each one, so you can prove you've got it and earn badges, awards & Leaders Loop Credentials you can share.
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Leadership, in a continuous loop
Grow as a leader through insight, example, and practice.
Leaders Loop brings together a practical skills toolkit, in-depth profiles of the people who shape great organisations, expert-led learning groups, and a free 360° app that shows you how you actually lead, so learning never stops at the last page.
Four ways to grow
One loop, four sources of momentum
Read to think differently, get inspired by leaders worth learning from, learn with peers in expert-led groups, then ask the people around you for an honest 360° picture of how you lead.
Leadership Profiles
In-depth editorial profiles of prominent leaders: what shaped them, the calls that defined them, and the lessons that hold up when you put them under the light.
Meet the leadersLearning Groups
Expert-led group sessions where a small cohort deep-dives one topic together, pairing the frameworks with real decisions, discussion and debate you can take straight back to work.
Book a learning groupThe 360 Review
A free 360° leadership assessment. Rate yourself across 38 leadership behaviours, each on how effective and how consistent it is, invite your manager, peers and team to weigh in anonymously, then get a report that maps your strengths, blind spots and where to focus next.
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Skills Toolkit
Grow real skills, one topic at a time
Clear, jargon-free guides to the things great leaders actually do, each one a quick read you can use the same day. When you're ready, a short, friendly Skill Check helps it stick, and completing the checks in a module earns you a Leaders Loop Credential to show for it.
Authenticity, Character & Executive Presence
Integrity under pressure: doing the right thing when it costs
Integrity isn't a trait you either have or lack. It's a decision made under load, and the research is clear about what bends the wire and how to keep it straight.
Stakeholder Management & Organisational Politics
Stakeholder mapping & analysis: the power/interest grid
A simple two-by-two won't tell you who matters most, but used honestly, it stops you spending your scarce political capital on the people least able to make or break your decision.
Coaching, Mentoring & Developing Others
Building team capability: a leader's practical guide
Capability isn't something you send people away to acquire. It's something you build into the work, by handing out the right hard problems, then standing close enough to help and far enough to let them struggle.
Authenticity, Character & Executive Presence
Values-based leadership: a practical guide
Values-based leadership isn't the poster in reception. It's a short list of principles you can actually act on when acting on them costs you something, and the discipline to do it consistently enough that people believe you.
Authenticity, Character & Executive Presence
Authentic leadership: leading as yourself, well
"Just be yourself" is the most repeated leadership advice there is, and the most likely to keep you small. Authentic leadership is a sharper idea than that, and it asks more of you.
Stakeholder Management & Organisational Politics
Public relations & media handling: a leader's field guide
Reputation isn't won in the good times; it's defended in the bad ones, and the leaders who come out intact are usually the ones who told the story first, plainly, and on their own terms.
Stakeholder Management & Organisational Politics
Reading & navigating organisational politics & power
Politics is not the thing that gets in the way of the work, in any organisation where people disagree about scarce resources, it is part of the work, and reading it well is a skill you can learn rather than a personality you're born with.
Coaching, Mentoring & Developing Others
Mentoring & sponsorship: the difference that decides who gets promoted
A mentor talks to you. A sponsor talks about you, in the room where the decisions get made, when you aren't there. Most careers stall in the gap between the two.
Stakeholder Management & Organisational Politics
External stakeholder & community relations: earning a social licence
The permission to operate that matters most isn't the one on the permit. It's the quiet, revocable approval of the people who live with the consequences of your decisions, and you earn it long before you need it.
Authenticity, Character & Executive Presence
Gravitas & poise: how leaders earn the room
Gravitas isn't a deep voice or a borrowed power pose. It's the perception that you carry weight, sound judgement, real conviction, and steadiness when the pressure is on, and most of it can be built on purpose.
Coaching, Mentoring & Developing Others
Creating a learning culture: the practical guide
A learning culture isn't a values poster or a training budget. You see it in the half-second after someone makes a mistake, whether the team leans in, or looks away. Here's what the evidence says, and the small moves that actually build one.
Coaching, Mentoring & Developing Others
Coaching skills: the GROW model and powerful questions, explained
Most managers believe they coach their people. The research says most of them are quietly handing out instructions and calling it coaching. The gap between the two is where development actually happens.
Leadership Profiles
Leaders worth studying closely
In-depth editorial profiles (the decisions, the context, and the durable lessons) from founders and operators to chairs and CEOs.
Operating & company building
The operator's manual: Claire Hughes Johnson and the case for writing it down
Most leadership books stay safely abstract. The one Claire Hughes Johnson wrote, drawn from scaling Stripe from fewer than 200 people to more than 7,000, is full of templates, cadences and a user guide to herself. The tactics, it turns out, are the point.
Platform & product leadership
Ship it half-baked: Teresa Huang's case against the perfect product
Bupa's Teresa Huang has built a career on two unfashionable convictions, that customers would rather hold a rough thing today than a perfect thing later, and that platform leaders have to hop two steps before anyone believes their work creates value.
Founder leadership
The two-step plan: the making of Melanie Perkins
She was turned down by more than a hundred investors before a word of yes. A decade on, the Canva co-founder runs her company on a plan she can recite in a single breath: build one of the world's most valuable companies, and do the most good she can with it.
Leadership & culture
The letters home: how Indra Nooyi led the whole person
Most chief executives talk about treating employees as whole people. Indra Nooyi, who ran PepsiCo for a dozen years, did something stranger and more concrete: she wrote to their parents. It is the smallest gesture in a very large career, and the one that explains the rest.
Technology & the study of progress
The man who wants a science of progress: Patrick Collison
In the summer of 2019 the co-founder of Stripe published a magazine essay arguing that humanity's most important subject, progress itself, was barely being studied. The piece launched a movement. It also revealed the idea that has run quietly through everything Patrick Collison has built.
Energy & industrial leadership
Confessions of a carbon emitter: Andrew Forrest's improbable bet
A fossil-fuel billionaire took the ABC's most prestigious lectern, titled his opening lecture Oil vs Water: Confessions of a Carbon Emitter, and admitted he was part of the problem, then bet his iron-ore empire on green hydrogen and a deadline most of his peers think is impossible.
Product & design leadership
Making research pay: Alex Burke and the case for proving UX value
Most leaders nod along when you say a company should be user-centred. Alex Burke, the CEO of the Wellington-built research platform Optimal Workshop, is interested in the harder question that comes next: can you actually prove what that research is worth?
Culture & corporate transformation
The learn-it-all: how Satya Nadella rewrote Microsoft's mind
When Satya Nadella inherited Microsoft in 2014, it was a company that knew everything and was learning nothing. His wager, that a culture of curiosity and empathy would beat a culture of cleverness, became one of the best-documented corporate turnarounds of the era.
Founder leadership
The gift of pain: how Jensen Huang built Nvidia on suffering
He told a graduating class at Stanford that he wished pain and suffering upon them, and meant it as a blessing. From a Denny's dishwasher to the head of the most valuable company on earth, Jensen Huang has spent three decades turning adversity into an operating system.
Product & commercial leadership
Better, not just faster: the making of Rob Alford
From a chip shop on the edge of the Wentworth estate to general management at SEEK and a software venture of his own, Rob Alford has spent twenty years chasing a single, stubborn idea, that the best leaders don't move fastest, they decide best.
Culture & talent
The woman who published the rules: Patty McCord and the Netflix culture deck
Most companies guard their culture in a brand book nobody reads. In 2009 Patty McCord did the opposite, she put Netflix's rules on the open web as a 125-slide deck, and turned the private craft of building a company into a document the whole industry could copy.
Distributed work & the future of the office
How, not where: Mike Cannon-Brookes and the case for distributed work
As the corporate world marches employees back to their desks, Atlassian's now-sole CEO has done the unfashionable thing: he counted. A thousand days of company-wide remote work, measured and published, became his argument that the real question was never the building, it was the way the work gets done.
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