Inspect and Adapt logo
  • Home
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Books
    • The Coach’s Casebook
    • Calm REBEL Leadership
    • Stakeholder Safari
    • Scrum Mastery
    • Product Mastery
    • Team Mastery
  • Workshops
    • Calm REBEL Workshop
    • ORGANIC Leadership
  • Blog
  • About Me
  • SC1 – Today We Put A Retrospective Action Into Practice
  • Home
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Books
    • The Coach’s Casebook
    • Calm REBEL Leadership
    • Stakeholder Safari
    • Scrum Mastery
    • Product Mastery
    • Team Mastery
  • Workshops
    • Calm REBEL Workshop
    • ORGANIC Leadership
  • Blog
  • About Me
  • SC1 – Today We Put A Retrospective Action Into Practice
CONTACT

Geoff's Blog

A selection of musings about leadership and coaching

Most Leadership Problems Are Adaptation Problems

Many organisations know their leaders are stressed, exhausted and burning out. What’s harder to accept is that some of the behaviours the organisation itself rewards may be quietly pulling good people away from good leadership.

Read More
Leadership drift blog post thumbnail

A Case Study About Leadership Drift

From the outside, Frank was doing well. He was in a senior role, well respected, leading a well-functioning department and getting things

Read More
Leadership drift thumbnail image

When Adaptation Becomes Drift

Leadership drift rarely looks dramatic. Small compromises in the name of pragmatism or not causing a fuss but they can add up. Emma remembers what leadership means to her and finds a way to keep that in mind to counter her drift.

Read More
Geoff Watts speaking at leadership conference

Turn it off…or don’t!

What can a musical about Mormon missionaries teach us about Calm REBEL Leadership?

Read More
Leadership framework diagram

The Calm Rebellion of Empathy

A leader I’ll call Sarah* was passionate about agility from the start. She believed in servant leadership, in creating space for her teams to

Read More

The Cost of Being the Reasonable One

When Priya* got back in touch, I was genuinely pleased to hear from her. We’d worked together a couple of years earlier,

Read More

Join our newsletter to stay updated

Most Leadership Problems Are Adaptation Problems

Many organisations know their leaders are stressed, exhausted and burning out. What’s harder to accept is that some of the behaviours the organisation itself rewards may be quietly pulling good people away from good leadership.

Read More
Leadership drift blog post thumbnail

A Case Study About Leadership Drift

From the outside, Frank was doing well. He was in a senior role, well respected, leading a well-functioning department and getting things

Read More
Leadership drift thumbnail image

When Adaptation Becomes Drift

Leadership drift rarely looks dramatic. Small compromises in the name of pragmatism or not causing a fuss but they can add up. Emma remembers what leadership means to her and finds a way to keep that in mind to counter her drift.

Read More
Geoff Watts speaking at leadership conference

Turn it off…or don’t!

What can a musical about Mormon missionaries teach us about Calm REBEL Leadership?

Read More
Leadership framework diagram

The Calm Rebellion of Empathy

A leader I’ll call Sarah* was passionate about agility from the start. She believed in servant leadership, in creating space for her teams to

Read More

The Cost of Being the Reasonable One

When Priya* got back in touch, I was genuinely pleased to hear from her. We’d worked together a couple of years earlier,

Read More

The Firefighter Who Lost His Spark

When I first met Ian*, he described himself as being “basically the fire brigade for my company.” * Name changed for anonymity

Read More

When Caring Becomes Damaging

I’ve been noticing a pattern. Maybe you have too. The people who care the most at work — the ones who want

Read More

Social Media Posts

This is a gallery to showcase images from your recent social posts

Join Our Newsletter

Inspect and Adapt logo

Leadership agility coaching, training and workshops — with Geoff Watts

Menu
  • Home
  • Coaching
  • Workshops
  • Books
  • About Geoff
Contact

E-mail

geoff@inspectandadapt.com

Phone

+44 8450 178150

Copyright © Inspect And Adapt Ltd. 2026. All rights reserved