When a new boss arrives and starts changing everything, it rarely feels personal, but it lands that way. This post looks at what happens when the ground shifts beneath a senior leader, the boundary a coach has to hold when a client's story mirrors his own, and what new leaders get wrong about proving themselves too soon.

There's a version of this story that goes straight to the insight. This isn't that version. Mark Taggart on the night that started a four-year shift — and what Breakaway Andalusia is really for.

Most organisations call groups of people teams when really they're just structured arrangements of individuals. If your team is struggling, the answer might not be in the room.

Leadership coach Mark Taggart explores what actually makes a team work, and why you can't force it.

Five articles into a series about AI and leadership, and this week it's about cycling.

The research on movement, nature and creative thinking points in one direction - and it has significant implications for how senior leaders perform at their best.

Three articles in, it's time to get practical.

Ten concrete things any leader can start this week to close the Leadership AI Gap - no transformation programme required.

There's a moment on every group ride when the pack divides. The same thing happens in careers. If you're chasing a pace that's leaving you worn out rather than energised, it might be time to ask whether the group you've been following is heading somewhere you actually want to go.

Enthusiasm for AI is running ahead of critical thinking in most organisations.

This is the third article in the The Leadership AI Gap series - five traps every leader needs to know about before they fall into one.

Watching Gorky's 1904 Summerfolk at the National Theatre, Mark Taggart found himself recognising something uncomfortably familiar — the gap between a successful life and a fulfilling one. If you're carrying that weight right now, this one's for you.

AI isn't just an efficiency tool.

In the second article in the Closing the Leadership AI Gap series, Mark explores five specific roles AI can play in making you a better leader — with some honest personal examples along the way.

A slightly deflating gig and a very strange lyric led to an unexpectedly relevant moment. If you're a senior leader with that nagging sense that something feels off - this one's for you.

Most people see the ride. They don't see the two hours before it. Bedford-based leadership coach Mark Taggart pulls back the curtain on Breakaway — outdoor coaching delivered on bikes — and what genuine preparation looks like for senior leaders.

AI can theoretically support 91% of what leaders do. Most aren't using it.

This is the first in a series exploring the gap between what's possible and what's actually happening — and what senior leaders can do about it.

Promoting your best person doesn't automatically make them your best manager. The skills are different, the aptitude distinctive, and the motivations often completely altered.

Here's what most organisations get wrong, and what the good ones do differently.

Geraint Thomas rode three weeks of the Tour de France with a broken hip. For someone else's victory.

His story isn't just about cycling - it's about what the invisible years of leadership actually build in you, and whether we're giving our best people enough time in the engine room before we hand them the keys.

There's a photo on my phone I keep coming back to. Me, mid-ride, somewhere in the middle of the country, two days into a 250-mile solo trip I needed more than I realised.

This is the story behind Breakaway - and why I believe the space you think in changes the quality of the thinking itself.

Feeling ready for change but not sure where to start?

In this post I share the three questions I explore with every client who finds themselves stuck at this crossroads - on purpose, energy, and the shape of what comes next.

What if your best thinking didn't happen in a meeting room? Breakaway is professional coaching delivered on a bike – for senior leaders who ride and are navigating something significant.

Most talent reviews produce the same list, the same conversations, and the same frustration.

This post explores why - and shares a practical framework for connecting your talent strategy directly to the business outcomes you're trying to deliver.

Feeling like you're pedalling hard but going nowhere? It might not be you. It might be the formation.

Mark Taggart reflects on working in a founder-centric business and what it taught him about sustainable leadership.

I haven't ridden my bike outdoors since December 31st.

Until I wrote this, I hadn't told anyone. This is a post about the stories we tell, the masks we wear, and why it's never too late to stop and be honest with yourself.