Professional Services Leadership

High Performance long term in unsustainable. In this episode, Grant Herbert helps you avoid burnout in a high energy career. ⸻ In this episode, you’ll learn: • Why 'High Performance' is not sustainable • The 3 ingredients needed to optimise your performance • The 7 Key metrics of Sustainable Performance ⸻ Reflection question: Where could you make a small shift that would give you more energy right...

Purpose drives performance through your priorities. In this episode, Grant Herbert helps you realign your career with what really matters. ⸻ In this episode, you’ll learn: • Why it is imperative to rediscover your purpose  • How to find what drives you and keeps you going • How alignment with your values determine your success • Why your priorities matter and how to stay true to them ⸻ Reflection...

Emotional Intelligence is more important than ever in this age of generative, conversational, and agentic AI. In this episode, Grant Herbert introduces a new model of Emotional Intelligence, developed through nearly two decades of working with professional services leaders around the world. This model provides a roadmap to help you navigate your emotions in the age of AI. You’ll discover the 4 ess...

Are you doing really well technically?  OK, you have skills and abilities that allow you to do what it is that you've trained to do, but you still feel something's wrong and feel that you're not cutting it. We understand that feeling all too well, not only in my own lives, but in the lives of everybody that we are working with right now around the world, and it's got nothing to do with your techni...

Leadership is not what it used to be. Professional services leaders are operating in a fundamentally different environment. AI, disruption, and increasing complexity have created we call the Intelligence Age, and succeeding in this environment requires a new approach to leadership. In this episode, Grant introduces his 9 Crucial Shifts Leadership Framework, a roadmap developed from nearly two deca...

Many senior professionals look successful on paper — strong roles, good income, solid reputations — yet quietly feel that something is off. Not because things are going badly. But because the rules they built their careers on no longer seem to fit the world they’re leading in. In this episode, I share what I’m hearing in honest, behind-closed-doors conversations with partners, directors, and senio...