Most leaders don't fail for lack of knowing what good leadership looks like. They've read the books and sat through the training. Then Monday arrives, the pressure builds, and they lead the way they always have.
I've seen this for more than 20 years, working beside managers and leadership teams in many countries and industries. These were good people with good intentions. They assumed their team understood. They took agreement in the meeting as commitment. They trusted that everyone was aligned, until the results said otherwise. They weren't poor leaders. Their teams had simply learned how to lead them.
I started calling it the Autopilot Gap™: the distance between how we think we lead and what we actually do when we're not paying attention. I wrote a book about it, naming nine places where autopilot quietly costs leaders trust, alignment and results, and setting out what to do instead.
BEST FOR LEADERS is where that work becomes practical. Our courses aren't lectures. You'll find out how you really lead, rehearse something different where it's safe to get it wrong, and take it back to work the next day.
The world needs better leaders. Not louder ones, or ones with more certainty, but more deliberate ones. If you're one of them, or you want your organisation full of them, I'd be glad to work with you.
Imre van Gastel
Founder, BEST FOR LEADERS
