Last updated: June 2026 The CFO role has become one of the most demanding and consequential positions in any organisation, and the people shaping how it is practised are doing something genuinely important: they are working in public, sharing the thinking, tools, experience, and honest assessments that allow finance leaders everywhere to do better work. As of June 2026, that conversation has never been more consequential or more accessible. The 35 people in this directory are

The practitioners shaping people strategy, workforce transformation and AI in 2026 By Jonno White | Clarity Group Global | consultclarity.org | June 2026 Introduction The organisations that navigate the next decade well will not be defined primarily by their technology. They will be defined by the quality of their people strategy. The leaders shaping that strategy most powerfully right now are the CHROs and Chief People Officers who hold the people function at the centr

If you have ever sat in a brainstorming session and felt your energy drain with every half-formed idea thrown at the whiteboard, you are not broken. Invention sits as a frustration in your Working Genius profile. That means ideation, creative problem-solving, and new concepts do not energise you. They cost you. Most leaders assume they need to fake enthusiasm for the parts of leadership that drain them. They do not. They need to build teams and systems that let other people c

If you have ever wondered why some types of work energise you while others leave you questioning your career choices, the answer is not in your personality type. Myers-Briggs has been the default language of workplaces for decades. Organisations use it to understand team dynamics, predict leadership styles, and justify why certain people clash. It feels scientific. It gives people a four-letter identity. But it does not explain why your INTJ operations manager keeps missing

If you have ever watched a team complete a personality assessment, nod politely through the debrief, then return to exactly the same patterns two weeks later, you already know the gap between insight and change. Working Genius sits somewhere different. It is not another personality framework. It is a lens on how people contribute to work, which makes the distance between the session and the behaviour shift shorter than most tools. But that does not mean the framework does t

If you have ever wondered why some types of work energise you while others leave you questioning your career choices, the Working Genius model holds the answer. Patrick Lencioni created Working Genius to name the six types of work that every project and every team needs. The model maps talent to task type, not job title. When someone works inside their Genius, they perform at their best and feel energised doing it. When they work outside it for too long, they burn out even if

Last updated: June 2026 A strong executive offsite agenda is built backwards from one primary decision, the conversation the team has been avoiding, and the behaviour change needed 90 days later, then time-blocked so the room cannot leave without producing clarity, ownership, and a follow-through rhythm. The agenda is the single biggest predictor of whether an offsite changes anything. As of June 2026, most leadership teams still build the agenda the wrong way round, starting

You have blocked out three days, booked the venue, and cleared executive calendars that are never clear at the same time. Now comes the decision that determines whether those three days produce genuine change or just expensive conversation. The facilitator you choose will either unlock what your leadership team has been avoiding for months, or they will run a workshop that feels good in the moment and changes nothing by the following quarter. Most leaders treat facilitator

If your executive team is talented on paper but dysfunctional in practice, the problem is not the strategy deck. The problem is what happens in the room when disagreement surfaces, when the real concerns stay unspoken, and when three months after the offsite nothing has actually changed. You need someone who can create the conditions for honest conversation, surface the tension that is already there, and translate two days of talk into 90 days of execution. I put together

Your executive team is talented individually but dysfunctional together, and the last offsite you ran produced nothing that lasted past the first Monday back. You know the pattern. Engaged faces during the session. Polite nodding. Strategic frameworks on whiteboards. Then three months later it is like the day never happened. The same unresolved tension between two senior people. The same meetings that do not produce decisions. The same gap between what the team says in the

Last updated: July 2026 When every decision routes through you, your team stops growing and your organisation's capacity caps at your personal bandwidth. The strategies below help you delegate authority rather than just tasks, build a team that moves without you, and shift your focus to the high-leverage work only you can do. As of June 2026, this is one of the most commonly raised challenges in leadership coaching and executive facilitation. Every leader reaches this point e

Last updated: June 2026 Getting your team to open up starts with one clear insight: silence in a team is almost never about personality. It is about safety. When people feel genuinely safe to speak, they speak. When they do not, even the most vocal people go quiet on the things that matter most. The seventeen strategies in this blog give you a practical, evidence-based path to building the kind of environment where your people tell you what they actually think. As of June 202

Last updated: June 2026 As of June 2026, board pressure on executives has reached levels that researchers are now describing as a genuine leadership crisis. The single most effective way to manage board pressure to deliver results is to shift from reactive reporting to proactive trust-building, replacing the dynamic of performance anxiety with one of strategic partnership. When executives get this right, boards become a source of insight and support rather than a source of st

Last updated: June 2026 The fastest way to close the skills gap on your team is to start with an honest assessment of what your people can actually do right now, map that against what your strategy genuinely requires, and then address the gap through a combination of deliberate development, smarter delegation, and consistent leadership behaviour. Most teams have the raw capability. What they lack is a structured approach to surfacing it, developing it, and making it stick. As

Last updated: June 2026 The people most actively shaping how Adventist schools are led, researched, and sustained include global system executives, university presidents, journal editors, curriculum researchers, and frontline education directors who collectively serve the second-largest Christian school system on earth. As of June 2026, these 21 individuals represent the clearest window into where Adventist education is heading and why it matters to every school leader who wa

Last updated: June 2026 Knowing which school principals to follow on LinkedIn is more useful than it sounds. The best principal voices on the platform share what textbooks, conferences, and policy documents rarely capture: the lived reality of leading a school community through real challenges, on real days, with real stakes. This directory profiles 30 outstanding school principals and former principals whose LinkedIn presence offers genuine, practitioner-level insight for an

Last updated: June 2026 The 50 people on this list are the marketing voices in Australia and New Zealand who genuinely deserve to be at the top of every serious conversation about the discipline in this region. Some have changed how the world thinks about brands. Others have built the country's most recognised campaigns, led the most awarded agencies, or built communities and institutions that raise the floor of marketing capability across both countries. Many are active on L

Last updated: 9 June 2026 Choosing the right keynote speaker for your Brisbane association conference is one of the most consequential decisions you will make as an event organiser. Association audiences are not corporate audiences. Your members paid their own way, gave up a workday, and need to leave with tools they can use on Monday, not just an experience they forget by Wednesday. As of June 2026, this list covers 25 voices who understand association audiences, speak in Br

Last updated: June 2026 Cloud computing in Australia and New Zealand has passed the tipping point. It is no longer a question of whether organisations should move to the cloud. The question every CIO, CDO, and board director is now wrestling with is who to listen to about how to use the cloud well, how to use it securely, how to use it in ways that comply with Australian and New Zealand data sovereignty requirements, and how to avoid paying for more than necessary. As of June

Last updated: June 2026 The Middle East tax landscape has undergone more change in the past five years than in the preceding five decades. As of June 2026, every practitioner, finance executive, and policy professional working across the Gulf Cooperation Council or wider MENA region needs to understand who is shaping this conversation. The UAE introduced corporate tax at nine percent in June 2023, implemented a Domestic Minimum Top-Up Tax of 15 percent aligned with the OECD's

Last updated: June 2026 The people genuinely shaping how Queensland law firms are led, managed, and built are not always the names that appear in national rankings. As of June 2026, Queensland is home to a distinctive legal leadership conversation shaped by managing partners of independent firms navigating succession and strategy, peak body leaders setting the profession's agenda, innovators redesigning what a law practice can look like, and educators equipping the next gener

Last updated: June 2026 As of June 2026, North Carolina has one of the most active and well-documented school leadership ecosystems in the United States. If you want to understand what excellent principals, superintendents, researchers, and policy advocates look like in practice, this state is one of the best places to look. The people on this list are shaping how schools are led, how future leaders are prepared, and how the evidence base for better leadership gets built and

Last updated: June 2026 If you are responsible for developing leaders and managers in Australia or New Zealand, the question you are really asking is not what training to buy. It is who to listen to. The practitioners, researchers, coaches, and facilitators genuinely shaping how ANZ organisations build leadership capability in 2026 are doing work that is practical, evidence-based, and grounded in the specific economic and cultural context of this region. As of June 2026, lead

Last updated: June 2026 If you lead a school, district, or education system and want to sharpen how you think, the most practical thing you can do right now is review who is actually influencing your LinkedIn feed. The most influential educational system leaders globally are actively posting on LinkedIn in 2026, sharing frameworks, district results, policy positions, and hard-won lessons in formats that a practitioner can use. As of June 2026, the 49 people on this list repre