Resources for Leaders and Business Owners
Assessments, Articles, Tools, and Videos
These resources reflect the same thinking, tools, and frameworks used inside coaching. They're designed to help you see what's really happening, think more clearly, and take a meaningful next step. Not generic downloads. Not surface-level content.
COACHING READINESS ASSESSMENT
Leadership and Business Assessments
Coaching is powerful, but it's not always the right starting point. This short assessment helps you work out whether coaching will create real value for you now, or whether a different approach would serve you better first.
Coaching is powerful, but it's not always the right starting point. This short assessment helps you work out whether coaching will create real value for you now, or whether a different approach would serve you better first.
Aruka Performance Pulse
A structured diagnostic to identify where leadership capacity, team alignment, or execution may be under pressure, even when everything appears to be functioning.
Featured Videos and Podcasts
Mygrow: From Performance to Purpose
The Midlife Pivot Every Man Faces, recorded for International Men's Day. Register to access: https://mygrow.wistia.com/live/events/nkuf574f4z
Human-Powered Reignition Strategies
Reignition during Reintegration Series. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/ITQfOtN_mqk
Find Me Coaches / Flourish: One Small Step Podclass, Episode 10
Patrick Lawson on midlife leadership and the men who navigate it. https://youtu.be/1pQWPTcdtms
Reinvention Academy Africa: Reinvention in Practice, Faith in Action
What does it actually look like when faith moves beyond belief and starts shaping how we lead, decide, and act? Together with Crispin Swart and Fanie Kamfer, this session unpacks faith as direction (not just comfort), letting go (where trust begins to replace control), and action (what it means to live belief out, daily). Watch the full recording. (Link to be hosted and added.)
SEE HOW IT WORKS IN PRACTICE
Business Coaching Case Study
What happens when a capable team loses alignment, clarity, and direction, and what it actually takes to restore it. This case study walks through a real transformation inside a complex business environment, showing how leadership, structure, and execution were realigned.
WORK THROUGH IT YOURSELF
Practical Leadership Tools
Wheel of Life
Sometimes the challenge isn't effort or intent. It's perspective. The Wheel of Life is a simple but effective way to step out of the day-to-day and take an honest look at how different areas of your life are currently sitting. Not how they should look. How they actually feel.
Download Printable Version. (Image asset to be supplied by Patrick.)
How to use it:
- Review each area (work, health, relationships, finances, personal growth) individually
- Score each from 1 to 10 based on your current experience, not what it should look like
- Mark your scores and connect them to see the shape clearly
- Pause before acting. Where is it uneven? Where are you investing heavily? What's getting neglected?
- Choose one area. Resist fixing everything at once. One meaningful step forward is enough.
The goal isn't a perfectly balanced life. It's building awareness and intentional movement, so that where you invest time and energy becomes a choice, not a drift.
Titanic Syndrome Test
- Personal Assessment: for individual leaders reflecting on their own adaptability and future readiness
- Business Assessment: for evaluating how well your organisation is positioned for change and disruption
Recommended Reading
- Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Start with Why by Simon Sinek
- God is my CEO by Larry Julian
- What Happened to You by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
- Firms of Endearment by David B Wolfe, Jagdish Sheth, and Rajendra Sisodia
- Half Time by Bob Buford
- The Ultimate Exodus by Danielle Strickland
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
- Consolations by David Whyte
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