Meet Max. He’s the picture of success. Multilingual, decades in senior oil roles, and paid very well. Bright, diligent, capable and funny. He leads a specialist global team, lives in a very pretty house and his children are all privately educated. His mother’s still telling people in the butcher’s queue about him.

There was a time when it felt like there was a deal to be done: work hard, plough through some of the boring stuff and get a good life. Do the right things until eventually, you reach a place where it gets easier. Maybe you even feel secure and in control.

Other people look up to you and believe you are powerful. But you don’t feel it.  You can influence some things, but your impact is patchy. When I interview people, I’m always amazed by how senior people (properly senior, the ones with offices with thick carpets) tell me they feel their power is very limited. 

I’ve reached two (possibly three, depends how you count) false summits in my career. Each one looked like “the job”, the grown-up one, the dream one, the one you worked hard to win and thought you’d maybe stay in forever. And each one, eventually, wasn’t.

There is so much hope among the doom: it’s always sunny above the clouds and this process will help you find your sunshine.

If you’ve spent decades creating successes for your employer…

Is it time to do the same for yourself?

We’re building a programme for leaders like you. People who’ve reached the summit, only to discover it’s not quite what they hoped for.