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About Marcus: Executive Leadership Coach, London·Tier: BrandForge Growth·Interview duration: 30 minutes
LinkedIn Posts — 3 included per month
Marcus Reid · Executive Leadership Coach
1st · 2h
Three years into my coaching business, I nearly packed it in.
Not because I wasn't good at what I do. Not because clients weren't seeing results. But because I'd spent so long helping other people lead that I'd completely lost my own sense of direction.
I remember sitting in my car outside a client's office in Canary Wharf, thinking: "I coach leaders for a living and I can't even lead myself out of this."
That moment cracked something open.
I reached out to a mentor I'd been too proud to call for years. Within 20 minutes of that conversation, I had more clarity than I'd had in six months. Not because he told me anything I didn't know — but because someone finally asked me the right questions.
That's the thing about leadership development that no one talks about: even the best leaders need someone to think with. The ones who scale fastest aren't the ones with all the answers. They're the ones willing to be questioned.
If you're in a season where the wheels are spinning and nothing feels like it's moving — that's not weakness. That's the signal that you've outgrown your current thinking.
Get in a room (or on a call) with someone who will challenge you. Faster than any course. More honest than any book.
What shifted things for you when you were stuck?
#Leadership #ExecutiveCoaching #PersonalDevelopment #LeadershipMindset #Founders
Marcus Reid · Executive Leadership Coach
1st · 2h
Managing high-performers is one of the most misunderstood skills in leadership.
Most managers treat their best people the same way they treat everyone else — regular check-ins, standard feedback loops, the same quarterly goals. And then they're blindsided when those people hand in their notice.
Here's what actually works:
1. Stop managing them. Start resourcing them.
High-performers aren't motivated by oversight. They're motivated by having what they need to do exceptional work. Ask: "What's in your way?" More often than not, it's a process, a tool, or a decision that's stuck somewhere above them.
2. Give them problems, not tasks.
The fastest way to lose a high-performer is to reduce their work to a to-do list. They want to own outcomes, not execute instructions. Frame their objectives around problems to solve, not boxes to tick.
3. Protect them from the noise.
Your best people attract the most requests, the most meetings, the most interruptions. Part of your job is to run interference so they can stay in deep work.
4. Make growth visible.
If a high-performer can't see a clear line between where they are and where they're going, they'll find that line somewhere else.
5. Tell them what you see.
Specific, genuine recognition lands differently than "great job." Name exactly what they did and why it mattered. They remember it.
The bottom line: if you're managing your best people the same way you manage everyone else, you're not managing them at all.
Which of these do you find hardest to do consistently?
#LeadershipDevelopment #ManagingPeople #TeamPerformance #ExecutiveLeadership #HighPerformance
Marcus Reid · Executive Leadership Coach
1st · 2h
Unpopular opinion: psychological safety is being used as an excuse to avoid hard conversations.
I've sat in boardrooms where leaders talk endlessly about creating safe spaces — and then use "safety" as the reason they haven't addressed a performance issue in eight months.
That's not psychological safety. That's conflict avoidance dressed up in the language of modern leadership.
Real psychological safety doesn't mean everyone feels comfortable all the time. It means people trust that when the hard conversation comes — and it will come — it will be handled with honesty and respect, not cruelty and politics.
The teams I've seen perform best are not the ones where no one ever feels challenged. They're the ones where people know that challenge is part of how they grow — and that disagreement won't end their career.
If you're a leader who talks about psychological safety but consistently avoids the difficult feedback, the accountability conversation, the honest performance review — your team doesn't feel safe. They feel managed.
There's a difference.
Build a team where people trust you enough to hear the truth from you. That's real safety.
(I'll take the heat for this one.)
#LeadershipTruths #PsychologicalSafety #ExecutiveCoaching #HonestLeadership #ManagementMindset
Twitter/X Thread — 2 per month
Thread: “5 reasons your best people are about to leave (and what to do about it)”
Your best employee hasn't told you they're unhappy. But they're already updating their CV. Here are 5 reasons your top people are about to walk — and what you can do before it's too late 🧵
1/ They've stopped being challenged. High-performers don't need easy wins. They need hard problems. If the last 3 projects felt like maintenance, not momentum — they're already mentally checking out. Fix: Find out what they actually want to own. Give them a problem bigger than their current role.
2/ They don't see a future. Talent leaves when it can't see where it's going. It doesn't have to be a promotion. It can be a new skill, a stretch project, a path they didn't expect. Fix: Have the career conversation. Not at review time. Now.
3/ They're being paid under market and they know it. LinkedIn exists. Recruiters are in their inbox. They've done the maths. "We value you" doesn't pay rent. Fix: Benchmark proactively. Address the gap before a competitor does.
4/ Their manager takes credit and shares blame. This is the quiet career killer. High-performers track this. They don't say anything. They just start looking. Fix: Name your team's wins publicly, specifically, and often. When something goes wrong, own your part first.
5/ They feel like they have to manage upward just to get things done. If your best person is spending energy navigating organisational politics instead of doing their best work — you've created friction where there should be flow. Fix: Clear the path. That's literally your job as a leader.
Retention isn't an HR problem. It's a leadership problem. The good news: every one of these is fixable — if you catch it early enough. What would you add to this list? Follow me for more on building teams people actually want to stay in. → Marcus Reid | Executive Leadership Coach, London
Newsletter Excerpt — 1 per month
Subject
The leadership habit that costs nothing and changes everything
I want to tell you about the most underrated leadership skill I've observed in 15 years of coaching executives.
It's not strategy. It's not executive presence. It's not even decision-making, though all of those matter.
It's this: closing the loop.
Here's what I mean.
Last month I was working with a senior leader — sharp, respected, genuinely good at her job. Her team, however, was quietly disengaged. She couldn't figure out why. So I asked her to walk me through the last three times someone on her team had flagged a concern or made a suggestion.
She could name all three. She remembered the conversations in detail. What she couldn't remember — and this is the part that landed — was whether she'd ever told those people what happened next.
She'd acted on two of the suggestions. Changed a process. Escalated a concern. Real outcomes. But she'd never gone back to close the loop.
To her, it was done. To her team, it was silence.
And silence, when you've been vulnerable enough to raise something, reads as indifference.
This is what I see in leader after leader: the intention is good, the action is often right, but the communication at the end is missing. The person who raised the issue never finds out if it mattered.
So here's the habit. It costs nothing and takes less than five minutes.
When someone flags something — an idea, a frustration, a risk — write it down. Set a reminder for two weeks out. Then go back and tell them what happened. Even if the answer is: “I heard you, I looked into it, and we're not going to change this — here's why.”
That conversation, even when the answer is no, builds more trust than a dozen town halls.
People don't just need to be heard. They need to know that being heard meant something.
Start closing the loop this week. Pick one person. One conversation. See what changes.
Until next time,
Marcus
P.S. — If your team is disengaged and you're not sure why, reply to this email. I'm happy to spend 15 minutes thinking through it with you. No agenda.
Quote Graphics — 5+ per month
The best leaders I know aren't the ones with all the answers. They're the ones willing to be questioned.
— Marcus Reid
Psychological safety isn't about comfort. It's about trust — trust that the hard conversation won't end your career.
— Marcus Reid
Your best people don't leave bad companies. They leave managers who stopped seeing them.
— Marcus Reid
Stop giving your high-performers tasks. Give them problems. There's a difference, and they feel it.
— Marcus Reid
Closing the loop costs nothing. But not closing it will cost you everything.
— Marcus Reid
Video Script — 2 per month
60-second Direct-to-Camera Script
“Why you're the reason your team is stuck”
Format: LinkedIn Video / Instagram Reels / Talking-head to camera · Tone: Direct, honest, slightly provocative
[HOOK — 0:00–0:08]
(Direct to camera, no preamble)
“If your team isn't performing — before you look at them, I want you to look at yourself first.”
[BODY — 0:08–0:45]
“I've coached senior leaders for over a decade. And the most common pattern I see when a team is stuck is this: the leader is either making too many decisions for them, or not making enough.
Either you're so involved that no one can move without your sign-off — or you're so hands-off that no one knows what actually matters to you.
Both feel like leadership. Neither of them is.
Your team isn't waiting for a better strategy. They're waiting for clarity. Clarity on the goal, clarity on their authority, and clarity on what good actually looks like.
When those three things are missing, people fill the gap with busyness. They look productive. They have full calendars. But they're not moving anything forward — because no one has told them what ‘forward’ actually means.
That's not their failure. That's yours.”
[CTA — 0:45–0:60]
“If you're a leader who knows something is off but you can't put your finger on it — that's usually the sign.
Follow me. I post on this every week.
And if you want to work through it together, the link's in my bio.”
(Slight smile, hold for a beat, cut.)
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