What the US$113 billion leadership development industry is getting wrong

ASK any boardroom, policymaker, or your favourite chatbot to identify the defining challenges of our time, and the answers are remarkably consistent: geopolitical conflicts, geoeconomic fragmentation, misinformation, social inequality, climate risk, and the potentially negative consequences of artificial intelligence and technology use.

Yet, amid the urgency to respond to these systemic threats, one profound shift remains underexamined – the collapse of opacity.

We have entered what might be described as a “naked era” of radical transparency.