Leadership Journal
Field notes
from the room.
Ideas on leadership, reputation, crisis, and the decisions that shape organisations.
Reputation Is Now a Balance Sheet Item
Why the boards that treat perception as a soft metric are the ones most exposed when the crisis arrives.
The First 24 Hours of a National Crisis
A field framework for institutional response, drawn from three decades inside government communications.
CommunicationsWhat Downing Street Teaches About Narrative Control
Lessons from the centre of state power on message discipline under sustained public scrutiny.
ReputationWhy Institutional Trust Takes a Decade to Build and a Week to Lose
On the asymmetry between reputation-building and reputation-loss, and what it means for how leaders should spend their time.
More From the Journal
New essays are added as sessions and editions produce them.
The Boardroom Case for Scenario Planning
Most institutions plan for the crisis they already survived. The next one rarely looks the same.
CommunicationsReading a Room Before You Speak in It
Stakeholder mapping as a discipline, not an afterthought — notes from three decades of crisis advisory.
Vice President Kashim Shettima, GCON
15th Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria
Lord Gavin Barwell
Former Chief of Staff to PM Theresa May · UK House of Lords
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
7th Vice President of Ghana, 2017–2025
Dr. Victor Oladokun
Former Director of Communications, African Development Bank
Kola Adesina
Group Managing Director, Sahara Power Group
Folake Ani-Mumuney
Communications Expert · Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Comms, FBN Holdings
Dr. Owen Omogiafo, OON
President / Group CEO, Transcorp Plc
Dr. Nero Ughwujabo
Former Special Adviser to PM Theresa May · The King's Trust
Dr. Yvonne Thompson, CBE, DL, FCL
Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London
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