The Full Report
Sixteen interviews, the method, and a section on education, mental health, and the justice system. Published in 2022 under Life With Balance, which is what the practice was called then. The 2026 edition includes a new foreword, and the research remains unchanged.
In 2022, I interviewed 16 Black CEOs and founders in the UK about confidence and how outward achievement and inner certainty drift apart. I had been noticing it happen in coaching sessions for years.
Someone with a track record that would satisfy anyone, still unable to take in what they had done. What I wanted to know was whether the thing I kept seeing had a shape, or whether I was making connections that were not there.
What it turned into
Recalibration Intelligence™ did not exist when I ran this. It came from what I did with the material afterward, and it is why the report still matters to me four years on.
Which patterns are shaping how you lead?