Get results without burning people out

Twenty leadership challenges, tackled honestly

Real fixes and small steps to regain your momentum

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Praise for Momentum

  • I’ve known Leah for more than a decade, and Momentum is exactly the book you’d expect from someone who’s spent many years in the trenches of large organisations. I’ve spent years articulating that ‘leadership behaviour makes it or breaks it’ and is a primary enabler of better organisational outcomes. Incentives (implicit and explicit) drive behaviour. Behaviour drives outcomes. The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing in the same context and expecting a different outcome. Leah Stockley makes that same case in Momentum and backs it up with the kind of practical, road-tested thinking that leaders can start using today. If you want your people to thrive, start here.”

    - Jonathan Smart, lead author, CEO and founder of Sooner, Safer, Happier

  • “A highly relatable and practical read. Through personas and real-life scenarios, it brings to life many of the challenges executives face, and several examples felt very close to home. “The book offers thoughtful perspectives and actionable lessons for navigating the complexities of leadership, making it a valuable resource for both current and aspiring senior leaders.”

    — Stephen Barnham, group CIO / CDO, Daiichi Life Group

  • “As a leadership coach, I often struggle to recommend leadership books to my clients. Much of the existing literature oversimplifies the reality of leadership in favour of a clear model and memorable sound bites. “Leah Stockley’s book is fundamentally different. It’s first and foremost a practitioner’s guide, taking real-life leadership challenges and fully embracing their complexity. It’s a book that guides leaders to the right questions rather than assuming that it can provide answers. Yet it’s also a rigorous examination of the forces at play that leaders in modern organisations have to contend with—and the book’s insights are backed by academic research. “I was lucky enough to work with Leah during some of the period referenced in this book, and it’s truly impressive how she’s extracted so much insight from her experiences. I highly recommend this book as valuable to anyone, but mid- to senior-level leaders in organisations dealing with high levels of complexity will benefit the most.”

    —Zaf Djabri, leadership coach and counsellor

  • “Leah Stockley gets something most leadership books miss: Growth and humanity aren’t in competition; they’re the same job. Momentum is a practical, honest guide for leaders who want to stop choosing between results and people—because you were never actually supposed to choose. The future of growth is human!”

    — Ryan Estis, keynote speaker and bestselling coauthor of Prepare for Impact

Is this book for you?

STRUGGLING TO GET THE RESULTS YOU NEED?

You’re not alone.

As a leader, you’re expected to break the cycle of exhausted teams and escalating stakeholder demands, yet no one is showing you how!

Momentum is your lifeline.

It tackles your leadership challenges honestly, bringing you real solutions from real companies, backed by evidence-based insights from organisational psychology.

For each challenge, you’ll find practical, easy-to-start tips that have been road-tested in the real world.

Leah Stockley has spent twenty-five years in the corporate trenches across industries and continents and now coaches CEOs and leadership teams. Here she distils that understanding to help make work better so that organisations AND people thrive.

Throughout the book I offer you templates, checklists and guides that can help you take the next small step

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About the Author

LEAH STOCKLEY is a leadership advisor and organisational psychologist who works with founders, CEOs, and leadership teams to drive lasting change that improves company results whilst enhancing people’s experience at work. She is the founder of leadership consultancy Let’s Flow and creator of the ACT! Leadership System™ and ACT! Academy and Community, where she continues to inspire leaders to make work better so that organisations AND people can thrive.

Leah’s corporate career spans global banks, consultancies, fintech, and startups across business and technology, leading global teams of up to 700 people across continents. She moved from the UK to Singapore in 2009, where she still lives with her husband and two kids, yet it was her first leadership role, spending her weekends running a pub kitchen at age fourteen, that shaped her leadership style: achieving great results by earning, not expecting, respect.

Over the following thirty-five years of leading and being led, she recognised the outsized influence leaders have on the experience and results of everyone around them. To deepen that understanding, she undertook an MSc in Organisational Psychology in 2023, specialising in leadership and change.

Today, Leah speaks, coaches, and advises internationally, from boardrooms to podcasts to conference stages. She writes the Momentum newsletter on Substack, is a regular voice on panels and roundtables, and sponsors the Inspiring Future Leaders podcast, exploring what it really takes to lead well.

She is available for keynotes, workshops, and advisory engagements with leaders and organisations ready to close the gap between what they know is possible and what they’re actually achieving.

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