This season, we have been thinking about pace, about leading at pace and with pauses, times to slow down, to stop and think, to reflect and deepen connection.

In today’s rapidly shifting business landscape, collaboration isn’t just a leadership buzzword. It’s a commercial necessity. As leaders respond to complex global risks, economic pressure, technological acceleration and increasing social polarisation, the ability to work together across differences is emerging as a defining factor in organisational resilience and performance.

Collaboration is one of those words that everyone agrees with in principle - yet so often struggles in practice.