When Misalignment Arrives Quietly

You might have noticed I’ve gone a little quiet with my thought leadership over the past few weeks. Nothing dramatic happened — but something quieter, and much more important, did.

A couple of weeks ago, I realised something significant:

Misalignment rarely arrives like a crisis.
It creeps in quietly — not through revolution, but evolution.

A tiny compromise here.
An unspoken frustration there.
A “this is fine… for now” that stretches just a little too long.

And suddenly, your work, your leadership, your relationships…
don’t feel as clean or as you as they used to.

In between travel, client delivery and everyday life, I’ve been doing what I guide Boards and leaders to do every day:

A check-in. An audit. A self-clean-up.

Because like many of us, I was conditioned early to put everyone else first — and myself last.
And even with strong boundaries and guiderails in place, things shift.
Environments change.
People evolve.
Energy moves.

So the check-in is essential.

For me, misalignment shows up in my body before it shows up anywhere else.
My head, heart and gut stop humming in unison.
When one of them goes off-key, that’s my signal:

Something needs attention.

Yours might look different — a tight chest, a short fuse, a sense of flatness where you used to feel energised.
We each have our own tell.

The deeper question is:

Are we listening?

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking closely at:

• Where my work feels deeply aligned

• Where my energy feels clean and purposeful

• and where I’ve allowed subtle misalignment to take up space

Because misalignment often shows up as a feeling long before it becomes a problem.

You feel a little more drained after certain meetings.
You hear yourself excusing someone’s behaviour… again.
You override the quiet internal voice saying, “This doesn’t actually work for me.”

Left unchecked, these tiny moments accumulate.
They blur boundaries.
They distort power.
And they slowly pull you away from who you are and how you want to lead.

And with 61 days until 2026, I’m choosing not to carry any of that quiet misalignment into a new year and pretend it’s “just how things are.”

If you’re noticing this in your world too, here’s a place to start:

Name the misalignment.
Where does something feel even 5% off?

Follow the power.
Who benefits from things staying as they are?

Make one clean adjustment.
A boundary.
A conversation.
A decision.

This is the work I do with Boards and leaders every day — resetting systems, relationships, structures and processes so power is held cleanly, and not merely by the loudest or most privileged voices in the room.

And right now, I’m doing that work for myself as well.

A gentle invitation - If this landed, and you’re realising there are places where your leadership, authority or energy feel even slightly “off”, I’m hosting a free live online session on:

Date: Thursday 27 November
Time: 4:00pm (Sydney time)
Location: Via Zoom

In this session, we’ll explore how to:

• hold your power cleanly in the Boardroom

• lead with authority and integrity (without overextending yourself)

• reset expectations, boundaries and conversations in a way that feels aligned and sustainable

If you’d like to join us, use this link to reserve your place.

If you needed the topic of this Newsletter as a reminder today: don't forget that you still have time to choose what — and who — you’re taking with you into 2026.

With alignment,