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Leaders are learners
Welcome to our blog, a hub of knowledge, insights, and inspiration crafted to empower your journey.
Here you'll find articles with expert advice and thought-provoking content covering a range of topics from leadership strategies, personal development, industry trends and innovative solutions.




































Scaffolding: The Architecture of Leadership
Rooted in psychological research on learning and motivation, scaffolding is the leader’s toolkit for sustaining performance amid uncertainty. It turns confusion into clarity, failure into feedback, and chaos into coordinated effort. Explore how leaders can use framing, psychological safety, and cadence to create adaptive systems that hold teams together without holding them back.
Because in times like these, resilience isn’t built by being unshakable—it’s built by being supp
Neil Pretty
Nov 24, 20254 min read


Breaking Free from Legacy Culture: 5 Steps to Drive Transformation
Honoring the past while courageously redesigning the future can turn culture from a constraint into a catalyst and release the organization’s capacity to adapt, innovate, and thrive in constant change.
Neil Pretty
Nov 10, 20254 min read


How to Lead Through Apathy When You Actually Care
Apathy at work isn’t laziness—it’s a survival response to exhaustion, ambiguity, and low psychological safety. Leaders often try to push harder, but real engagement comes from changing the conditions: clarify priorities, restore agency, and make work feel meaningful again.
Neil Pretty
May 28, 20256 min read


Winning the Battle Against Leadership Loneliness
Leadership can feel lonely, but it doesn’t have to be. Connection is the key. Here’s how to build it.
Neil Pretty
Mar 31, 20256 min read


The Simplest Framework to Get Projects Done Faster and Stop Wasting People’s Time
Meetings don’t have to be a waste of time. Research shows that 72% are ineffective, leaving employees overwhelmed, read more...
Neil Pretty
Mar 17, 20258 min read


Project Aristotle: Google’s Data-Driven Insights on High-Performing Teams.
In 2012, Google launched Project Aristotle to uncover the secrets of high-performing teams. The goal was ambitious: identify the factors tha
Neil Pretty
Dec 1, 20244 min read


Multi-dimensional Leadership: Leading Courageously
When we talk about leadership, the concept of multi-dimensional leadership stands out as truly important. It goes beyond the standard...
Neil Pretty
Mar 12, 20242 min read


Practical Steps to Boost Team Collaboration
Collaboration helps businesses create actual workplace environments. When people work together, they bring different ideas and skills to...
Neil Pretty
Nov 27, 20233 min read


The Fine Line: Constructive vs. Destructive Criticism in Leadership
Feedback is essentially a critique--for better or for worse--it is what it is. Criticism can be a powerful tool for growth, but it's...
Neil Pretty
Oct 24, 20232 min read


Self Awareness
In a business environment culture can be the differentiator between success or failure. Whether or not people feel psychologically safe...
Dr. Kate Price
Dec 27, 20222 min read


The Benefits of Being a Humble Leader
A successful leader is not always the one who is the most assertive or the loudest in the room. Humility is a key attribute for leaders...
Aristotle Performance
Nov 8, 20222 min read


How to Improve Your Everyday Communication to Enhance Psychological Safety
It's no secret that communication is key to a successful workplace. But what you may not realize is that the way you communicate can...
Aristotle Performance
Sep 14, 20222 min read


Battling Back Against the Great Resignation with Aristotle Performance
Solving the great resignation one organization at a time by improving organizations’ internal capability to create psychological safety.
Aristotle Performance
Jul 12, 20224 min read


3 Signs a Manager Does Not a Leader Make
How to spot a manager who might need to learn more about how to lead.
Aristotle Performance
Jul 5, 20222 min read


Navigating Uncertainty
How to manage and navigate uncertainty both personally and professionally with insightful steps provided by our CEO Neil Pretty.
Neil Pretty
Jun 28, 20223 min read
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