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The Leading Note: Graham Boyd with 'From Gridlock to Growth'
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Break free from burnout and gridlock. Graham Boyd reveals why trying harder fails during major change and how to build fresh, future-focused solutions.
- Format: Live online
- CPD: 1 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
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Join us for a FREE monthly series of motivational talks featuring remarkable individuals from diverse fields. Discover their strategies and mindsets that drive success—and how to apply them both professionally and personally. In music, the leading note is the final note before the keynote of the scale. Unlike a keynote talk, which represents the main idea or conclusion, these leading note talks explore the path and momentum that guide you there—an ideal metaphor for talks focused on strategies that drive success.
Overview
Q: When is trying harder a mistake?
A: When you're facing an epochal change and only new ways can rise to the challenge (think the Tiktaalik fish that developed primitive legs when life on land began).
If you're burning out, trapped in gridlock and nothing is really working (however hard you try): you're making the 'Streetlight Effect' mistake – looking for answers where the light is better, rather than where the truth is more likely to lie.
Because – it's not about you – only changing the structures, systems, interactions and strategy will break through gridlock.
In this talk, gain insights into how the following may be creating burnout and gridlock for you and/or your company:
- Our current beliefs about ourselves
- How we interact with each other
- Organisations designs
- Corporate governance structures
- Investment structures
It's time to stop fixing the old and start building new ways of thinking.
Benefits of attending
- Learn why effort alone fails in times of major change – and how you can shift your approach
- Understand the hidden causes of burnout and gridlock
- Stop searching for solutions in familiar places and start looking where the real answers lie
- Explore structural and systemic barriers and why they could be holding you back
- Move beyond 'fixing' what's broken and start building from a fresh, future-focused perspective
Who should attend?
- Leaders and executives struggling with burnout or organisational gridlock
- Anyone looking to challenge outdated systems and spark fresh thinking at work
- HR professionals interested in designing healthier, more adaptive workplaces
- Investors and governance professionals evaluating how structures impact long-term outcomes and innovation
- Founders and entrepreneurs at a crossroads and realising that more effort isn’t always the answer and are curious about new models
- Anyone feeling stuck while trying hard to grow – specially those sensing that traditional paths are no longer effective in their personal or professional lives
Graham Boyd
Evolutesix
Graham Boyd, Founder & CEO Evolutesix, is CEO, serial entrepreneur, particle physicist, disruptive innovator and author of Rebuild. Graham has 15 years experience in adaptive organisation and adaptive leadership practice. He innovates and transforms business systems so as to create antifragile, regenerative businesses using his methodology. He also consults to multinationals and startups on harnessing conflict to drive their own regeneration.
Register for The Leading Note: Graham Boyd with 'From Gridlock to Growth'
18 November 2025
12:00-13:00 UK (London)
13:00-14:00 Paris
07:00-08:00 New York
