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The Executive Leadership Journal

Ideas and insights for senior leaders navigating the realities of executive leadership.

Six Signs it may be time for Executive Coaching
By Caroline MacPhail • October 9, 2026
Identify six key signs that indicate it's time for executive coaching and discover how it can enhance your leadership journey.
Executive coaching pain points
By Caroline MacPhail • September 27, 2026
Area Manager at 22, Director at 25, Managing Director at 39. Looking back, none of it came from feeling ready, and that's the part worth understanding.
Executive Coaching Australia/ United Kingdom
By Caroline MacPhail • September 25, 2026
Corporate language is rarely neutral. It usually tells you exactly where a decision is being avoided, and what it's costing you
Executive Coaching
By Caroline MacPhail • September 21, 2026
A letter to myself at 30, newly promoted and desperate to prove I deserved it. The thing I most needed to hear took another decade to arrive." source_post: "If I could speak to myself at 30
By Caroline MacPhail • September 11, 2026
The hardest part of senior leadership was never the workload, and for me it was always the business of carrying decisions I couldn't fully share with anybody. At senior level you're expected to decide with imperfect information, competing priorities and real consequences for people, for performance and for reputation. That's the job, and nobody hides it from you when you take it. What nobody mentions is where the doubt is supposed to go afterwards.
Executive Coach and Mentor
By Caroline MacPhail • August 28, 2026
Two decades of senior leadership at ALDI produced twenty lessons. Sorted properly, they turn out to be five decisions every leader is making whether they know it or not.