Field notes

Notes from the coaching room.

Original, field-tested ideas on senior leadership, decision-making and change. Written by ICF-certified coaches working with C-suite leaders in Saudi Arabia and the GCC.

Featured · Lateral Leadership

Lateral Leadership: the C-suite skill nobody teaches.

Authority got you to the C-suite. It will not get you through it. Why the senior leaders who win in their second decade learn to lead peers, not just teams.

Pillar topics

Six lenses on senior leadership.

Inner Game

Self-awareness, presence and decision-making at the top.

Lateral Leadership

Leading peers, not just teams.

Team Dynamics

Tavistock-informed insights on executive teams.

Change Leadership

Vision 2030, Prosci, family-business transformation.

Coaching as Profession

For HR leaders and aspiring coaches.

Founder Essays

Written by Abdulelah Alhadidi.

The senior leader's inner game

A · 5 essays

02The blind spot every Saudi CEO hasInner Game 05What the Birkman assessment reveals that 360 feedback missesInner Game 06Why letting go is the hardest skill in the C-suiteInner Game 07The leader who confused calm with weaknessInner Game 08Decision paralysis at the top: four questions that break itInner Game

Lateral leadership

B · 4 essays

01Lateral Leadership: the C-suite skill nobody teachesLateral 09The CFO who couldn't influence the COOLateral 10How to disagree with the CEO without losing the roomLateral 11The cost of unspoken conflict on an executive committeeLateral

Team and group dynamics

C · 3 essays

04Why your executive off-site didn't change anythingTeams 12What the Tavistock Institute teaches about why your leadership team stallsTeams 13The five roles that quietly emerge in every executive teamTeams

Change leadership in Saudi Arabia

D · 4 essays

03Leading change in a Saudi family businessChange 14Vision 2030 is a leadership mandate, not just an economic oneChange 15What Prosci gets right and what it misses in Saudi family businessesChange 16Leading a workforce that's localising in real timeChange

Coaching as a profession

E · 3 essays

17Should HR leaders get coach-certified? An honest answerCoaching 18Mentoring, advising, and coaching: when each one is wrongCoaching 19What ICF accreditation actually signals in the GulfCoaching

Founder essays

F · 3 essays

20What Ingvar Kamprad taught me about charismatic leadershipFounder 2116 years of leading change: the one thing I would tell my younger selfFounder 22Why I left operations to become a coachFounder

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