Resources

Tools & templates

A thoughtfully curated collection of tools, templates, and practical exercises designed to support you and your team as you strengthen your strategic thinking and bring big ideas to life.

12 Practices of Strategic Mastery

Great strategists share a common set of capabilities and competencies...

Articulating Emotions - Emotions Wheel

Emotions Wheel is a simple tool to help you recognise, name and navigate what you feel...

Assess Your Relationship With Uncertainty

A short self-assessment and guide to build your comfort with the unknown...

Barriers to Listening

A practical reflection tool to uncover what gets in your way when you try to truly listen...

Building Psychological Safety

A short guide to creating the conditions for openness, learning, and creativity...

Communicating Strategy with the Pyramid Principle

How to clarify your “so what” before you even open PowerPoint..

Create Your Personal Vision

A short guide to imagining and defining the future you want to build...

De Bonos Thinking Hats Exercise

A practical guide for critical and creative thinking (solo or with a team)...

Developing Your Listening Muscle

Practical exercises to help you build deeper attention, empathy, and understanding...

Do you actually have a life strategy?

This short self-assessment helps you test whether what you have is a strategy — or simply a plan...

Do you have a life strategy?

This ‘one-page’ reflection tool helps you take stock of your personal life — not just...

Escaping the Mind Traps

How to think clearly and calmly in uncertain times...

Exploring Levels of Listening

A practical guide to recognise how you listen and how to move to deeper levels...

Facilitating Great Inclusive Meetings

A practical guide to designing and leading meetings where every voice counts...

Fixed or Growth Mindset

Discover how you respond to feedback and how to shift from defensiveness to development...

How Creative Are You?

A simple self-assessment and guide to unlock your imagination...

How Do I Learn Best

Discover how you learn best and how that shapes your ability to think and act strategically...

How Future Focused Are You

A short exercise to explore how you naturally think about the future...

How To Create a Clear Problem Statement

A practical guide to sharpen your critical thinking and improve your decisions...

Identify Your Decision Making Style

A short guide to help you recognise your default style and learn to make clearer, faster decisions...

Know what drives you: Values & Beliefs Exercise

A guided reflection to uncover what matters most to you, and what ‘makes you tick’...

Left Brain or Right Brain Test

A quick, practical test to explore how you and those around you ‘think’...

OODA Loop Explored

A practical guide to adopting a faster, clearer, and more adaptive decision-making approach...

RAPID Decision Making Framework

A simple tool to clarify who does what — so decisions get made and acted on...

Serious Play: Think With Your Hands

How to unlock deeper insight, creativity and collaboration through LEGO®

Strategic Stakeholder Mapping

A short guide to start mapping the people who can make or break your work...

Surface and Challenge Your Assumptions

A practical exercise to think objectively and make better strategic decisions and choices...

Team Health and Performance Diagnostic

A short self-assessment to understand how well your team collaborates and what to strengthen next...

The Art of Persuasive Communication

Four simple storytelling frameworks to help you influence with clarity, credibility, and impact...

The Futures Thinking Canvas

A practical tool to help you explore possible futures and shape the one you want...

Understanding How People Experience Change

This short guide helps you recognise where you and / or your team are in the ‘change process’...

Using Parallels To Think Differently

A short guide to learning from other worlds to unlock creativity and strategy...

Watson Glazer CT Assessment

An assessment Inspired by the Watson Glazer Test...

books

A collection of recommended / useful reads all handpicked by Charlie to cover the most relevant materials for any aspiring leader. Here you will find books covering a wide variety of subjects you can find the best guidance from the very best in the business.

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4 Disciplines of Execution

Strategy

In Covey's experience, the thing that most undermines the ability to execute goals is what he calls the Whirlwind: those urgent tasks...

Atomic Habits

Personal Effectiveness

Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now. People think that when you want to change your life you need to think...

Big Magic

Creativity

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now, this beloved author shares...

Black Box Thinking

Critical Thinking

When was the last time you experienced a sense of failure? Did you brush it off, or allow it to knock you down? Or did you use it as an...

Blink

Critical Thinking

An art expert instantly spots a fake. A cop decides whether to shoot. A psychologist accurately predicts a couple's future in minutes...

Critical Thinking Skills

Critical Thinking

The ability to demonstrate critical thinking is essential for students who seek to achieve good grades at university but it typically...

Deep Work

Personal Effectiveness

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary...

Everybody Writes

Creativity

In the newly revised and updated edition of Everybody Writes, marketer and author Ann Handley improves on her Wall Street...

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Strategy

Even though everyone is talking about it, there is no concept in business today more muddled than 'strategy'. Richard Rumelt, described...

Leaders Eat Last

Leadership

In Leaders Eat Last, Simon Sinek, internationally bestselling author of Start With Why, investigates these great leaders from Marine...

Leadership and Self-Deception

Leadership

Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Its sales continue to...

Manifest

Personal Effectiveness

MANIFEST is the original and essential guide for anyone wanting to feel more empowered and be more intentional in their life...

Measure What Matters

Strategy

Measure What Matters is about using Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), a revolutionary approach to goal-setting, to make tough choices...

Multipliers

Leadership

A revised and updated edition of the acclaimed Wall Street Journal bestseller that explores why some leaders drain capability and...

Order Out of Chaos

Communication

Scott Walker has probably one of the most difficult jobs in the world. When pirates have hijacked a ship, when a criminal gang...

Pig Wrestling

Critical Thinking

Pig Wrestling is a simple story with a powerful message. Read it in under an hour, and you’ll be ready to tackle any type of sticky...

Pyramid Principle

Communication

Join the tens of thousands of people worldwide who have benefited from Barbara Minto's technique, to present your thinking so clearly...

Radical Candor

Communication

A practical guide to those bewildered or exhausted by management, written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Drawing on years of...

Steal Like An Artist

Creativity

Artist Austin Kleon's beautifully illustrated bestseller teaches readers how to use their surroundings and their own creativity to...

Surrounded by Idiots

Communication

Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function and why we often struggle to connect with certain types of people...

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Personal Effectiveness

Considered one of the most inspiring books ever written, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has guided generations of readers for...

The Art Of War

Strategy

The original and bestselling leadership book! Sun Tzu's ideas on survival and success have been read across the world for centuries...

The Artist's Way

Creativity

The Artist's Way provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self. It aims to dispel...

The Chimp Paradox

Personal Effectiveness

Do you sabotage your own happiness and success? Are you struggling to make sense of yourself? Do your emotions sometimes dictate your...

The Culture Code

Leadership

The Culture Code reveals the secrets of some of the best teams in the world - from Pixar to Google to US Navy SEALs - explaining the...

The Culture Map

Leadership

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this insightful and practical guide, perfect...

The Source

Personal Effectiveness

Self-help books like The Secret promise that we can tap into the 'law of attraction' to control our destiny, simply by changing our...

The Strategy Book

Strategy

Strategy is about shaping the future. Thinking strategically is what separates good managers and great leaders. Learn the fundamentals...

The War of Art

Creativity

A succinct, engaging, and practical guide for succeeding in any creative sphere, The War ofArt is nothing less than Sun-Tzu for the...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Critical Thinking

Why do we make the decisions we do? Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman revolutionised our understanding of human behaviour with Thinking...

Time to Think

Personal Effectiveness

The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book, Nancy Kline describes how we can...

Traction

Strategy

Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar...

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