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.

There's one in every room. The one who arrives late, checks their phone, and asks the question designed to derail the whole session. But buried inside that question is one of the most useful lessons I know about leadership.

I thought LinkedIn was straightforward: post consistently, share insights, build followers.

After three months of impressive metrics but zero business conversations, I realised I had it completely backwards.

Here's what I learned about building genuine business relationships on LinkedIn

Talent Strategy was my job for years. It took stepping away from corporate life to realise I was the wrong person to be doing it - not because I wasn't capable, but because talent strategy isn't an HR problem. It's a leadership one.

Some days leadership is about survival, not sprinting. Mark Cavendish knew this - even the greatest sprinter spent most Tour days just getting through.

The question is: are you in the right team, or do you need to reframe how you're riding?

"What do you want?"

No one had asked my client that before. He was stuck playing peacekeeper when he should have been leading.

Here's why that question unlocked everything – and what it means for senior leaders trying to navigate competing demands.

Every leadership expert tells you something different about who you're supposed to be. Be vulnerable but confident. Listen but direct. The contradiction is exhausting. What if the real work isn't performing leadership - it's practising it?

Even the best teams fall apart when unexpected hits.

Drawing from a personal redundancy experience and the cycling concept of echelons, this post explores how leaders can navigate organisational crosswinds by building the right formation rather than trying to muscle through change alone.

A mid-week ride, an unexpected challenge, and a lesson about what happens when you stop choosing the comfortable group. Part of the Lessons from the Peloton series.

There's a particular kind of loneliness that comes with being the person everyone turns to for answers. You've built a career on competence. And yet something has shifted. The confidence that once felt like a given now feels fragile.

If this resonates, I want you to know something: losing confidence is not weakness. It's a signal.

"Thank you. I just needed to be listened to."

A reminder that sometimes the most powerful thing a leader can do is put the toolkit down.

The best thing I ever did for my team was accept it wasn't about me. I had to stop performing leadership and start actually leading. Here's what professional cycling teaches us about building teams with clear purpose, complementary skills, and genuine clarity about what matters.

"Stop the noise. I need space to think."

This came up in a client session last week. He arrived overwhelmed with ideas, concerns, problems, opportunities. When that happens, it's my job to create a Think Tank - the space where leaders can untangle what's really going on beneath the urgent.

"Yes this is me. Yes I can do all that." How a senior leader navigating career transition moved from self-doubt to authentic confidence by addressing the hidden commitments keeping her stuck