Resources for
Future-Ready Leadership

Cover of a book titled 'The F.I.R.E.D. Leader' with the subtitle 'Why We're Firing the Very Leaders We Need - and How to Regenerate the Future of Leadership,' featuring an illustration of a school of fish, with one fish standing out in a bright color.

The F.I.R.E.D. Leader: Why We Keep Firing the Very Leaders We Need.

A short manifesto on reimagining leadership for a world that no longer fits yesterday’s systems. Discover the five F.I.R.E.D. qualities quietly reshaping how we identify, recruit, onboard and develop future leaders.

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An infographic titled "The 13 Unlucky Steps to How Leaders Are Identified, Recruited, Onboarded, and Developed" with a dark blue background and illustrations of a school of fish, highlighting one green fish leading the others.

The 13 Unlucky Steps: What’s Broken in the Leadership Pipeline — and How to Fix It.

A visual guide to the inherited leadership pipeline — where it fails, what it costs, and how the F.I.R.E.D. framework offers a measurable alternative. Designed for CHROs, CPOs, Hiring Managers and L&D leaders ready to break the cycle.

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The F.I.R.E.D. Leadership Program: Embracing Tomorrow’s Leader, Today.

A practical overview of the six-month F.I.R.E.D. journey and its 12 modules. See how the program helps organizations identify, recruit, and develop leaders who thrive amid disruption and drive measurable cultural change.

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THE F.I.R.E.D. LEADER COMPANION GUIDE.

The F.I.R.E.D. Leader Companion Guide is based on global leading practices and contains over 30 critical activities organizations are recommended to conduct to introduce F.I.R.E.D. leadership, including suggested activity completion timelines and a ‘done well’ accountability checklist.

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Book cover titled 'Disrupt for Growth' featuring a school of dark blue fish above a green fish with pink outline and eye, and the subtitle 'How to identify, cultivate, and embrace tomorrow's emerging leaders based on their ability to be disruptive.' Authors are Paul McCarthy and Simon Haigh.

DISRUPT FOR GROWTH

We will increasingly need a different kind of leader for the future. A new kind of leader who has the required leadership qualities to navigate ongoing disruption. This eBook has been developed to support organizations interested in better understanding this kind of leader.

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Podcasts

The Future of Leadership with Paul McCarthy

Organizations are not prepared for the types of leaders they need in the future. They spend billions each year for little return on such investment while getting frustrated with outdated leadership identification, recruitment, onboarding and development systems and processes.    And until the world’s largest global human capital experiment in history (Covid-19), few wanted to talk about this honestly, publicly or in a forward moving manner.    It’s time. It’s time to address the increasing ineffectiveness of current approaches to preparing our leaders for the future. Future of leadership expert Paul McCarthy shares monthly content to get you rethinking, reinventing, and regenerating the future of YOUR leadership.

GGG Unleashed: The Future of Leadership Leadership Identification, Recruitment, Onboarding and Development provides practical insights, techniques and ways to address this and its impact right now. Listeners will be equipped with tangible tools to create open dialogue about how their organizations and approaches to leadership can better prepare for navigating ongoing disruption.

PAUL MAC LEADERSHIP PODCAST SERIES

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Episode 1 : My Personal Story

Episode 2 : Outdated Hiring Systems Holding You Back?

Episode 3: Outdated Hiring Systems, Part II: How YOU Play a Part

Episode 4: Making the Case for the Disruptive Leader

Episode 5: Disruptive Leaders: How to Identify, Recruit and Onboard Them, Part I

Episode 6: Disruptive Leaders: How to Identify, Recruit and Onboard Them, Part II

Episode 7: Introducing the FIRED Leader: Fresh Thinking

Episode 8: Introducing the FIRED Leader: Inquisitive Nature

Episode 9: Introducing the FIRED Leader: Real and Accountable

Episode 10: Introducing the FIRED Leader: Expressive and Challenging

Episode 11: Introducing the FIRED Leader: Direct and Transparent


CEO FOR LIFE Experience: Get F.I.R.E.D™ With Paul McCarthy

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Leadership Junkies: F.I.R.E.D Leadership: Reinventing the Future of Leadership

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Right Here Right Now LIVE: with Paul McCarthy

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Coffee & Change: F.I.R.E.D Leadership & Change with Paul McCarthy

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Geeks Geezers Googlization: Reinventing the Future of Leadership with Paul McCarthy

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Conversations on Conscious Change: Fired for what you were hired to do, what?

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The Game Changers Experience: How to reinvent leadership

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Leadership Simplified: Reinventing the future of leadership

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Sketches

Why we need a new leadership conversation - sketch notes by Paul Mac
 
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Interviews





Articles

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The New Portrait Of Leadership: Paul McCarthy Of Paul Mac Leadership On Which Legacy Ideas About Leadership Need To Be Discarded, And Which New Approaches To Leadership Should Be Embraced


An Interview with Karen Mangia

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