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What our guests left us with.

Every fortnight a guest brings something to the room: a framework, a story, a question worth carrying. These pages are the part of that we can share. One page per session, built from what the guest brought, never from what members said. Plus the occasional guide.

Guides

  1. Guide

    How do you choose a technology leadership community in the UK?

    Nine questions to ask before joining any CIO, CTO or IT leadership network, with an honest account of where we sit against them.

Session insights

One page per session, built from what the guest brought to the room. What members said in the room stays in the room.

  1. Session insight

    Why does leading feel so lonely, and what can a technology leader do about it?

    Jerry Colonna on the fears we bring to the chair, going first on honesty and the question that breaks old patterns.

    Jerry Colonna, Executive coach, co-founder of Reboot and author of Reboot and Reunion · 17 September 2026
  2. Session insight

    How do you recover from failing in public?

    Gerald Ratner on owning it fast, the seven years it really took and who was still there when the phone stopped ringing.

    Gerald Ratner, Former chief executive of the Ratners Group, entrepreneur and speaker · 4 September 2026
  3. Session insight

    How does a technology leader scale themselves without burning out?

    Cate Huston on managing energy rather than time, leadership styles as tools and why balance comes from doing more life.

    Cate Huston, Engineering leader and author of The Engineering Leader · 6 March 2026
  4. Session insight

    What are you not seeing in your organisation, and how do you lead when you can't see it?

    Stephen E Morris on the invisible forces behind every decision and the detector array that catches what your KPIs miss.

    Stephen E Morris, Leadership speaker and writer on how organisations really work · 20 February 2026

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