If you're a leader, you have to learn to manage change.
Maybe you're transforming the way your team works; maybe the market around you has shifted, and you need to adapt; maybe you’re simply watching the wild acceleration of the world and wondering what it means to lead your business and the people who make it through such uncertainty. Perhaps all of these are true.
Whatever situation you find yourself in as a leader, Shift, Leading from the Future, is the book for you.
Here, you'll learn how keeping ahead of change will help you not just survive, but thrive.
But this is no simple 'how to' guide. Because the more you deal with change and uncertainty, the more you will see that context is everything. Instead, we’ve described a set of shifts in behaviour and attitude that any leader, manager or individual can apply.
By mastering these shifts, leaders can achieve breakthrough performance and create thriving organizations.
The book is ideal for leaders and aspiring leaders looking to navigate today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business landscape. It offers practical insights for those who want to move beyond traditional leadership models, embrace adaptability, and foster innovation within their teams and organizations. By addressing the need for mindset shifts, the book equips readers with tools to thrive in rapidly changing environments while inspiring collaboration, resilience, and sustainable success.
Mike has over 30 years of experience in the industry, working with large corporations such as Coke, Roche, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Diageo, Heineken, Microsoft, AMEX, and many public sector bodies and is a regular speaker on the topic of transformation and cultural change.
He founded Achieve Breakthrough in 2003, an award-winning organizational change consultancy that helps clients achieve and sustain significant step changes and business performance improvements. Management consultancy Achieve Breakthrough have won L&D Consultancy of the Year twice in the last ten years and many awards for their development programmes. Mike is connected to Bath University Business School (UK) and Duke Corporate Education where he runs Breakthrough, Innovation and Leadership Transformation sections of their programs
Mike is an international speaker and thought leader on transformational leadership.
Paul is a CEO with diverse private equity and major multinational experience, successfully leading a number of businesses through change of ownership transactions. Proven track record buying, building and repositioning companies to create greater value for customers and investors; developing new capabilities within businesses and their people to accelerate growth at pace.
Now a seasoned executive with a number of CEO roles leading private equity backed businesses under his belt, Paul has a 20+ year history in leadership/delivering organizational change to brands such as Diageo, Smith & Nephew plc and Private Equity backed companies across Europe, the Americas, Asia and is currently CEO of a specialist clinical treatment business.
In 2022, Paul was the winner of the UK dental industry Business Leader of the Year award. Mike and Paul are co-authors of The Little Black Book of Change.
In an ever more complex world, where leaders are facing uncertainty and volatility at every turn, ‘how to’ guides to leadership simply don’t cut it anymore. Everyone’s context is different, and for every leader, this context is decisive.
That’s why instead of prescriptive strategies or guides, Shift, Leading from the Future is built around shifts in behaviour and attitude that any leader can learn to apply. Here’s a taste of what you’ll find:
