Boards & Executives
What Are We Rushing Towards?
The Direction We Don’t Question There’s something I can’t step away from. A question that doesn’t just pass through my mind… it stays. It lingers.
Lisa Sisson
May 18, 2026
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Boards & Executives
The Paradoxes That Matter Most in Leadership and Risk
Looking Beneath What We’ve Normalised In the first part of this blog, we explored the paradoxes we see… and the ones we live within. The
Lisa Sisson
May 11, 2026
Boards & Executives
We’re Living in a World of Paradoxes… So Why Do We Just Accept Them?
Noticing the Contradictions We’ve Come to Accept It’s interesting when you step back and start to notice it… our world of living and operating in
Lisa Sisson
May 4, 2026
Boards & Executives
Misreading the Signals: When Perception Distorts Risk
When Risk Becomes Personal There’s something I’ve been noticing in my conversations with leaders. Senior executives. Board members. Highly capable people with deep experience, strong
Lisa Sisson
April 27, 2026
Boards & Executives
Are You Protecting the House… or Creating the Illusion of Protection?
The Appearance of Protection Is Not Protection Walk into most organisations and ask about governance, risk, and compliance… …and you’ll be shown policies, frameworks, registers,
Lisa Sisson
April 20, 2026
Leadership
We Talk About Time Like We Own It. We Don’t.
There’s a short video called To Scale: TIME. It stretches the 13.8 billion years of our universe across a desert… placing lights along the way
Lisa Sisson
April 13, 2026
Leadership
Water Bankruptcy: Why Building the Future Like This Is a Leadership Failure
The Warning Signs We Keep Living Through — and Still Ignore The “You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone” lyric from Big Yellow
Lisa Sisson
April 6, 2026
Leadership
The Risk We’re Not Naming: When People Stop Feeling Like They Matter
Start With the Right Question Disengagement is often treated as a performance or motivation issue. Quiet quitting is often labelled as a drop in effort.
Lisa Sisson
March 30, 2026
Leadership
When a Decision Conflicts with Who You Are
Decisions That Quietly Lead to Disengagement I have shared how disillusionment can be a pathway to disengagement. It’s a heavy word — carrying the weight
Lisa Sisson
March 23, 2026
Boards & Executives
The Leadership Superpower We’re Getting Wrong
AI Isn’t the Superpower. Leadership Is. Every superhero story follows the same arc. Someone gains extraordinary power. At first, the excitement dominates. The possibilities feel
Lisa Sisson
March 16, 2026
Series
When Leaders Ask Me About the Risk Rebel Leadership Pathway – Part 2
Part 2 – Entering the Cave In Part 1, I shared some of the patterns that helped shape the thinking behind the Risk Rebel Leadership
Lisa Sisson
March 9, 2026
Series
When Leaders Ask Me About the Risk Rebel Leadership Pathway – Part 1
Part 1 — The Leadership Pattern I Could No Longer Ignore Over the past few months, I’ve had a number of leaders reach out with
Lisa Sisson
March 2, 2026
Series
The Accountability AiLusion: When Consequence Becomes Theatre
The ‘Rinse & Repeat’ Pattern We Pretend Not to See Another headline. Another internal memo. Another urgent directive telling staff to stop uploading confidential data
Lisa Sisson
February 26, 2026
Leadership
Who We Work With — And Why That Matters
“People like us do things like this.” Seth Godin I love this quote — but perhaps not in the way you might expect. For some,
Lisa Sisson
February 23, 2026
Leadership
2020 Wasn’t a Blip. It Was a Line in the Sand.
The Year We Didn’t Process — And What Gallup’s Data Might Be Quietly Revealing When you look at stats and data points, what do you
Lisa Sisson
February 16, 2026