71% of leaders report heightened stress from AI transformation. Here's what's really happening—and what to do about it.

Procurement isn't judged by savings alone anymore — but most organisations still measure it that way. This article explores how procurement leaders create real business value through risk management, speed, innovation, and cross-functional influence, and how to make that shift visible at the executive level.

Most supplier risk systems don't fail because they're wrong — they fail because they measure the past. This article explores how to spot the signals that predict supplier failure, why lagging indicators dominate procurement risk, and what I learned from one missed shutdown that changed my approach to risk forever.

Legacy isn't what you build — it's what you change in other people. This article explores how leadership legacy forms through everyday decisions, developed people, and systems that outlast you — and how to shape it deliberately without turning it into a performance.

Crisis doesn't test how much you know — it tests how well you decide without knowing everything. This article presents a practical framework for leaders operating at 70% certainty, covering how to communicate decisively and turn uncertainty into momentum rather than paralysis.

The hardest career transition isn't changing roles — it's changing identity. This piece reflects on the shift from technical expert to people leader: what it costs, what it creates, and how to grow into responsibility without abandoning what made you effective in the first place.

Great managers don't just get work done — they develop people who can lead without them. This article lays out a practical framework for turning daily responsibilities into leadership capability, and how to know when your team is ready for more.

Modern leadership rarely comes with formal authority — especially in procurement. This article lays out a practical playbook for influencing decisions, aligning stakeholders, and driving outcomes when your responsibility far exceeds your direct control.

AI won't negotiate supplier contracts for you. But it fundamentally changes what's possible before, during, and after the negotiation. This article explores how procurement teams combine AI-driven analysis with human judgment to consistently win better outcomes.

AI won't replace your team — but it will change how work is done, how value is measured, and what leadership requires. These are the seven decisions managers must make to lead people honestly through AI-driven transformation in 2026.

AI won't replace procurement professionals. But procurement professionals who use AI will replace those who don't.

It’s easy to overspend on AI procurement software that looks impressive but delivers little. This piece lays out a six-step evaluation framework, shaped by real experience reviewing dozens of tools

90% of Fortune 500s use ChatGPT in procurement. Get 20 copy-paste AI prompts for spend analysis, supplier management, contracts, and reporting—from a practitioner.

Agentic AI is coming to procurement in 2026. Here's what autonomous procurement agents actually do, which jobs are at risk, and the skills AI can't replace — from a practitioner's view, not an analyst's.

The move from procurement to product management looks unconventional — but it makes sense. This article explores why procurement builds the judgment, trade-off thinking, and credibility that many product leaders spend years trying to learn.

Product managers often treat procurement as a final checkpoint. In reality, it's where many launches slow down or fail. Here are five mistakes PMs make — and what changes when procurement is involved early.

Most innovation dies in agreements nobody remembers negotiating.

Two functions, both optimizing. Neither willing to admit what they're really protecting.

Not because they expose mistakes—because they expose choices no one wants to defend.

Internal proliferation kills faster than the market—but we keep blaming competitors.

They understand leverage, not just users—and it changes everything they build.

It reveals who is willing to disappoint whom—and when.

A year of achievement revealed something unexpected: the best work doesn't always look like work at all.

What happened when I chose teaching and technical depth over corporate advancement—and why it paradoxically moved everything forward.

Teaching marketing strategy after twenty years in business revealed something unexpected: not how much I'd learned, but what I'd stopped noticing.

What happens when development becomes a substitute for recognition—and why good companies let it continue.

Why traditional strategic thinking increasingly fails to explain outcomes — and what this means for how we think, decide, and act under conditions of uncertainty.

Coaching tools promise insight, clarity, and progress. Most of the time, they deliver structure — but little change. This post explores why tools so often fail, and what actually makes them matter.

Brand protection is often treated as a legal or marketing exercise. In reality, it is about understanding where trust is fragile — and where organisations quietly undermine themselves.

Emotional intelligence is widely praised and rarely lived. This post is about what emotional intelligence actually demands from leaders — and why it is much harder than it sounds.

Leadership coaching is often treated as a set of tools or conversations. This post explores what coaching actually changes — and why its impact depends less on technique than on how leaders relate to themselves and their role.

Leadership is often treated as a personal trait. This blog post argues that leadership is better understood as a system — and explores what changes when leaders begin to see it that way.

Benchmarking is widely used in strategy — yet often applied in ways that obscure judgment rather than improve it. This post explains what benchmarking is actually for, and how to use it intelligently.