Campbell Macpherson

Campbell Macpherson is a sought-after speaker and international business adviser on leadership and change. His acclaimed leadership development program ‘Leading with Influence’ is now available as an online self-learning programme at www.leadingwithinfluence.online. He is based in the UK and can be found wherever his clients need him to be. Campbell is an Executive Fellow of Henley Business School and the author of four books: The Change Catalyst (2018 Business Book of the Year), The Power to Change, You Part Two, and Leading with Influence. More information about Campbell can be found Here.

Campbell Macpherson is a distinguished member of the CEOWORLD Magazine Executive Council. You can connect with him on LinkedIn or learn more by visiting his official website.

C-Suite Insider

7 essential leadership traits for a world of AI

Campbell MacphersonC-Suite Insider

You can’t out-robot a robot. Being human is your superpower: hone it. Are you still spending hours drafting emails, composing reports, generating presentations, perfecting complex spreadsheets, developing detailed plans? Stop. As a leader none of this is your job. Delegate it - to AI. We now live in a world...

Executive Agenda

The 8 Components of Extraordinary Leadership Teams

Campbell MacphersonExecutive Agenda

Leadership is a team game, not a solo pursuit. Leadership teams are critical to every organisation’s success – and they exist at all levels of an organisation. Leadership teams set the strategy, are responsible for the delivery of the strategy, create the culture and set the tone and the example for...

the lehman trilogy at the gillian lynne theatre

Boardroom Advisory

The moment that Lehman Brothers lost the plot – when they abandoned their ‘Strategic Core’

Campbell MacphersonBoardroom Advisory

I was lucky enough to see The Lehman Trilogy at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London last month. What a brilliant play: sharp script, clever set, perfect direction, simply brilliant performances. Every second of the three hours and twenty minutes was unmissable. But there was one moment in particular that...

CEO Insider

Extraordinary Leadership

Campbell MacphersonCEO Insider

In my 25+ years of enabling business leaders to lead successful and sustainable change, I have determined that extraordinary leaders possess three core, critical skills: The ability to deliver results The ability to influence, motivate and empower people (Emotional Intelligence) The ability to build extraordinary leadership teams Poor leaders possess...

Global CEO Forum

Lessons in leadership from this era of uncertainty

Campbell MacphersonGlobal CEO Forum

I would like to share some of the insights I have gleaned from the delegates of the Leading Change and Embracing Change webinars I have been running since March 2020. Lessons about change, about anxiety, about coping with uncertainty, about leadership. Several of the insights are revelations. Others are reminders...

C-Suite Intelligence

The 5 key truths about change

Campbell MacphersonC-Suite Intelligence

It is 25 years since I first encountered ‘change’ as a discipline and began helping leaders to instigating change. And everything I have learned about change over the last quarter century can be distilled down to five key truths. At first glance, they may appear to be blinding glimpses of...

C-Suite Insider

The secret to leadership today? Helping your people to want to change.

Campbell MacphersonC-Suite Insider

88% of change initiatives fail, according to a 2016 report by Bain & Co. And while we can argue about the percentages, the fact that the vast majority of change initiatives, business strategies, mergers and acquisitions fail to deliver – is irrefutable. But we can be among the 1 in...

CEO Insider

The must-have skills to accept and embrace change in a COVID world

Campbell MacphersonCEO Insider

Covid-19 has hammered home something we already knew – that change is inevitable and often completely out of our control. It has also taught us that we have no choice but to accept it – good change, bad change, even change that we didn’t ask for. We can try to...

Executive Roundtable

How an oncologist is hitting Big Tobacco where it hurts – in the wallet

Campbell MacphersonExecutive Roundtable

The Kubler-Ross Change Curve is well known – the sequence of emotions that we all experience when major change is done to us. But there is another change curve that no-one warns us about. I call it ‘The Quantum Leap Change Curve’. It is the sequence of emotions that we...

Boardroom Advisory

Does Joe Biden’s election mark the end of Tribal Leadership?

Campbell MacphersonBoardroom Advisory

The entire Western World and roughly half of the United States breathed a sigh of relief when Joe Biden was inaugurated as US President earlier this year. After four years of narcissistic leadership when facts were fungible and truth an irrelevance, it was a moment of hope. Hope that leadership...

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