Maria Muir

To kick off the month of June, we brought together a group of enterprise leaders from across sectors to explore a question that continues to dominate leadership conversations: How do we build a better system to deliver better outcomes? In the room, we had a group of leaders from across banking, insurance, retail, telecommunications, education, automotive, professional services and not-for-profit organisations. On the surface, these leaders appear to come from very different contexts:...

For many organisations, the annual planning season is a familiar ritual - strategy decks get dusted off, budgets are locked in, and project roadmaps are finalised months before the new financial year. But behind this seemingly structured process lies a system that’s often disjointed, misaligned, and increasingly unfit for the pace of today’s world. If your annual planning sounds like this, it doesn’t need to be this way. Why annual planning needs to change In many organisations, annual...

In 2023, I wrote a perspective on the 5 roles and their behaviours for leaders. This was based upon my work in transformation and strategy to execution advisory from the previous decade. A few years on, I see these 5 roles as even more critical than ever! Today’s leadership environment is even more complex, uncertain, and demanding. To support leaders in navigating this, I’ve transformed these 5 roles into a light-weight self-assessment tool designed to guide reflection and shape your...