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Alex Bond Burnett: Performance & Culture
Leadership & Team Performance.
The Problem
Your team agrees in the room. Then does whatever they want outside it. Your best people are performing for themselves and your culture is rewarding it. Nobody tells the MD what they actually think. Everyone knows it. Nothing changes.
You could see these as strategy problems, when in essense, they're performance customs.
Inherited habits, unexamined rituals, default behaviours that were never designed for the team you have now.
I work with senior leadership teams to diagnose which customs are driving performance and which are destroying it. Then I design new ones
Services
Executive Coaching
For senior leaders in high-stakes, client-facing environments. CEOs, MDs, senior partners, heads of function. I specialise in leadership transitions, building credibility at board level, high-pressure decision-making, and the gap between what you know and what the room actually experiences.
How it works: An initial diagnostic conversation. Then fortnightly sessions over 3-6 months. Between sessions, you practice. I challenge. We redesign how you show up in the moments that matter.
500+ coaching hours. ICF PCC.
Clients include leaders at Ogilvy, Swiss Re, IMI PLC, Amazon, and HSBC."
Team Performance Programmes
For leadership teams running on customs nobody designed. I work with the whole team to examine the habits, rituals, and unwritten rules driving your culture, and I redesign the ones that aren't working.
This might look like:
a diagnostic phase with individual conversations and observation, a facilitated offsite where the team confronts what's really happening, and a sustained programme embedding new customs over 3-6 months.
Programmes designed for: post-merger integration, senior team alignment, AI adoption, client experience transformation, and leadership transitions.
Keynotes and Facilitation
I keynote, facilitate, and emcee for senior audiences who are tired of being talked at. My sessions are grounded in behavioural science, built for interaction, and designed to leave the room different from how it started.
Signature keynote: Monster Custom. Shakespeare called custom a monster and an angel.
I show leadership teams which one they're living with.
Other topics:
Curiosity as a performance capability. The Brilliance Gap. Leading through AI disruption. Designing team customs that stick.
Previous stages:
TEDx, Xerocon, ICAS Conference, Wolters Kluwer Client Conference, ACCA Roadshow, MCA.
What I’m Working On
Right now, I’m:
Cowry Consulting:
Leading the Behavioural Science Academy at Cowry Consulting.
Bold Behaviour Lab:
Building a leadership community for influence and innovation.
Speaking & Emceeing
Bringing behavioural science and leadership strategies to life on stage.
New Ventures
Building new projects in EdTech and M&A.
Writing
Sharing leadership, performance and BeSci lessons on LinkedIn.