Forthcoming book
The Hidden Gap
Solving the Human Alignment Problem Behind Conflict, Behaviour and Culture
How operating values drive behaviour, conflict and culture
Most organisations do not have a dysfunctional behaviour problem. They have a human alignment problem.
The Hidden Gap explores the distance between what people and organisations say matters — and what actually drives behaviour when pressure rises.
Available June 19th, 2026.
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What the book covers
What the book helps you see
Not just what people say they value — but what is actually operating underneath behaviour, decisions and culture.
The gap
The difference between declared values and operating values — between what is said and what is actually reinforced when pressure rises.
The cost
How misalignment shows up as conflict, cynicism, stalled change, energy drain and hidden patterns that keep repeating regardless of intervention.
The response
A clearer way of understanding what is really going on — and a more intentional, practical way of working with it.
"The gap does not close because people try harder.
It closes because they see more clearly."
— The Hidden Gap
Early readers
What people are saying
"Turns the light on. Leads you through the mistakes that resonate before unwrapping the reasons they are being made."
Mick Power
Programme & Transformation Leader
"Turns the light on. Leads you through the mistakes that resonate before unwrapping the reasons they are being made."
Mick Power
Programme & Transformation Leader
"A hugely insightful read. Organisational issues hiding in plain sight — a read that would benefit many organisations and leaders."
Mick Power
Programme & Transformation Leader
"Exposes a shortfall in organisations testing their capability to implement proposals and improve performance. A valuable subject."
John Wilson
Executive Transformation Consultant & Author | 35+ years in enterprise change
Five parts. One through line.
Part 1
What's Really Running the Show
Why values collide, what keeps the hidden gap alive, and the energy cost of misalignment.
Part 2
Taking Responsibility for What Runs You
How to surface, clarify, and work honestly with the values already operating in your life.
Part 3
When Values Become Shared
What happens when values work moves from the individual into teams and organisations.
Part 4
Working with the Gap in Real Time
The Inner Coach, the Choice Triangle, and how to spot and respond to the gap as it appears.
Part 5
Aligned to What? The System We Are Building
The human alignment problem at civilisational scale — and what each of us can do about it.
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