THE HARD CALL
You're not here
to be popular.
You're here to be respected.
Leadership is the work of changing what people do when they have to live with the consequences. I help leaders make the hard call, and make it hold.
Tom Foley spent more than a decade making irreversible calls under pressure in professional rugby, culminating as Television Match Official at the 2023 Rugby World Cup final. He now works with senior leaders, executive teams and boards who face the same underlying challenge: making contested decisions that hold, in public, with consequences they cannot undo.
The book
You're Not Here to Be Popular. Making decisions stick when there's no right answer.
About the bookAdvisory
Working with boards and leadership teams on contested decisions that have to hold.
About advisory"I didn't like it, but I get it."
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