Your role changed.
Did you?
Transitioning leaders do not fail because they lack talent. They lose ground in the gap between the role they were given and the leader they are becoming. We close that gap.
"This is not a generic leadership quiz. It named something I had been avoiding."
— Gemma Petry, programme participant
Your team is asking four
questions of you.
Not in words. In how they show up to your meetings, whether they bring you their honest problems or curated versions, whether they execute when the room empties or wait for the next instruction.
These are the four dimensions we work through, together. The assessment tells you where you are losing ground — and where you are stronger than you think.
Can I find my flow?
Most leaders live in the grind state — overthinking every decision, tightening their grip when things get messy, ending each day drained from holding it all together.
Can we be led by you?
You inherited the title. That does not mean you inherited the trust, the followership, or the permission to set the direction. Leadership is given, not assumed.
Can we be managed by you?
Management is the discipline of turning intent into outcome. Without it, leadership becomes performance art and strategy becomes a slide deck nobody acts on.
Can we trust you?
Trust is the currency every other thing on this list runs on. Spend it carelessly and the management system collapses. Build it deliberately and the team will follow you into difficult ground.
Insight without implementation is just expensive daydreaming.
Lost in Transition
The online programme and book for leaders stepping into a role bigger than the one they have already mastered.
Cape Town
Twenty leaders, one week, mind-body-spirit reset. The kind of room that changes what you do on the Monday after you fly home.
Positive Deviant Ltd
OD, change, and executive coaching for organisations that need transformation that actually lands.
Antonio Belgrave
Director, Positive Deviant Ltd
Twenty years in pharma — Novartis, AstraZeneca, SmithKline Beecham, GlaxoSmithKline. Twelve at GSK, including Head of Performance Management for Supply Chain Transformation and Director of Transformation for GSK UK. Founded Positive Deviant in 2014.
NLP Master Practitioner, Applied Neuroscience, Gestalt OD. Board member at AFWAG. Founding member of BAME Rendezvous. Author of Lost in Transition.
"These aren't theories I've borrowed. They're convictions I've earned."
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