Land With Calm Authority

The implementation practice for senior leaders and teams navigating high-stakes transitions.

Whether you're stepping into a new role or leading an established team through a necessary shift in direction, the ground is moving and the stakes are high.

Transition creates a gap between the situation you're in and the habits you've relied on to succeed.

The work is to move beyond the reactive.

It requires the sustained discipline of reading and managing the system, the room, and the self.

This is the practice of response.

It's how you land your transition with grounded authority.

Two Sides of the Same Transition

We focus on the two most volatile moments in a business:

  • The Individual Transition: Moving into a senior role where the expectations have scaled beyond your previous experience.

  • The Organisational Transition: Leading an established team through a change in how you deliver value or how the business must operate.

The risk in both situations is the same. When the ground moves, the individual leader, their peers, and the senior team can be tempted to revert to old habits and autopilot responses that worked in a different context. The space to think is lost, the system becomes noisy, and when alignment fails, so does execution.

Making the Strategy Work: from intent to implementation

A shift in leadership or direction often stalls because the organisation lacks the capacity to absorb the movement. We establish the conditions required for work to actually flow.

  • Strategic Direction: Defining what the transition specifically demands of the leader, the leadership team, and the system they lead.

  • Organisational Capacity: Establishing the four conditions: Define, Align, Engage, and Enable. This ensures strategy moves through the structure and the people without hitting bottlenecks.

  • The Practice of Response: Building the discipline to read the situation accurately and adapt. This ensures the leader and their team maintain momentum without losing clarity under pressure.

Sustained Implementation: a structured partnership

Significant shifts do not happen in a single workshop or coaching session. I provide a comprehensive implementation package designed to embed these changes into the daily rhythm of the organisation.

This moves beyond the initial diagnostic to ensure the new direction is codified, the leadership team is aligned, and the organisation has the practical capacity to deliver.

It's about moving from the initial landing to a state of sustained performance.

Paula Broadbent

The practitioner behind the practice.

I'm a Business Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working across sectors to bridge the gap between how people think and how a business actually runs.

My primary work is in the field with leaders facing significant organisational change, and I also serve as a Programme Director at Cranfield School of Management.

I believe leadership is a situational discipline, not a personality type.

My work provides a framework for the leader and their team to establish a sustained response to the situation they are in.

I designed the Leadership Response Transitions framework to ensure that when the ground moves, you build a foundation that lasts.

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