Mastering MESSY Leadership: How Exceptional Leaders Thrive When No One Has the Answers
Jerry Connor · Lee Sears
Dec 2026 · John Murray Business · Narrated by Katherine Fenton and Ryan Wilson
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Today's leaders face a messy reality. Constant disruption, competing priorities across business and society and complex human pressures, mean their ability to inspire their teams and deliver outstanding results is becoming ever more difficult.
Mastering MESSY Leadership reveals a breakthrough approach for leading in today's unpredictable and demanding world. Based on insights from more than 10,000 coaching conversations with talent leaders around the world, it demonstrates how a small number of extraordinary leaders rise above the overwhelm, towards a more fluid, adaptive, and human way of operating.
This book uncovers the five mindsets that enable these exceptional leaders to thrive amid complexity. MESSY leaders must:
· Find Meaning in tackling complex organizational and societal issues
· Connect Emotionally in today's culturally rich and diverse world
· Sense the direction of current events and emerging futures
· Seize momentum and stay ahead/competitive
· Tame Your ego, so that you can empower people to step in and step up
From BTS, world leaders in the people side of strategy, and drawing on fifteen years of real-world examples, Mastering MESSY Leadership is a practical, actionable guide for anyone who wants to lead with clarity and confidence in a complex world.
Mastering MESSY Leadership reveals a breakthrough approach for leading in today's unpredictable and demanding world. Based on insights from more than 10,000 coaching conversations with talent leaders around the world, it demonstrates how a small number of extraordinary leaders rise above the overwhelm, towards a more fluid, adaptive, and human way of operating.
This book uncovers the five mindsets that enable these exceptional leaders to thrive amid complexity. MESSY leaders must:
· Find Meaning in tackling complex organizational and societal issues
· Connect Emotionally in today's culturally rich and diverse world
· Sense the direction of current events and emerging futures
· Seize momentum and stay ahead/competitive
· Tame Your ego, so that you can empower people to step in and step up
From BTS, world leaders in the people side of strategy, and drawing on fifteen years of real-world examples, Mastering MESSY Leadership is a practical, actionable guide for anyone who wants to lead with clarity and confidence in a complex world.
Today's leaders face a messy reality. Constant disruption, competing priorities across business and society and complex human pressures, mean their ability to inspire their teams and deliver outstanding results is becoming ever more difficult.
Mastering MESSY Leadership reveals a breakthrough a...
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About the author
Jerry Connor (Author)
JERRY CONNOR was the founder of BTS Coaching Practice and leader of BTS's Global Leadership Practice. Jerry is a pioneer in the fields of leadership and coaching. He founded 'Coach in a Box', one of the first companies to employ virtual coaching to reach the masses. Coach in a Box quickly grew to be one of the world's biggest coaching companies with over 250 coaches in 40 countries working in 27 languages. Jerry is also a founder of Bridge, a top global leadership consultancy and of two not-for-profit organizations in international development and developing leadership in young people. Jerry is Head of Strategy for the Bridge Institute and a specialist in big systems change. Jerry lives in Sydney and is the architect behind the mindset research and the IP that has now benefitted over a half a million business leaders worldwide. Mastering MESSY leadership is his third book.
Lee Sears (Author)
LEE SEARS is a leadership expert, commercial and social entrepreneur, author and speaker specialising in organisational transformation and place-based change. His work brings together transformations in business, education and place-based change.
With Jerry Connor, he co-founded Bridge and Coach in a Box, which grew into one of the world's largest coaching organisations, with 250 coaches operating in 40 countries. He specialises in helping senior leaders navigate major organisational and cultural change and achieve breakthroughs through innovation.
Alongside his work in business, Lee has founded developmental charities in Africa and the UK and spent the past fifteen years working to reshape education. He co-founded Big Education, a London-based multi-academy trust, and in 2026 established Meridian, a new school offering a more expansive education to prepare young people for an increasingly complex world.
His commitment to place-based change is reflected in his work in Bath, where he co-founded The Bath Bridge, a community interest company dedicated to the city's renewal, and established its Future Talent Programme. He has also served as a non-executive director of Bath Rugby and designed a Creative Leadership Programme for Bath Spa University as a potential precursor to a new MBA.
Lee lives in Bath with his family. Mastering MESSY Leadership is his second book.
JERRY CONNOR was the founder of BTS Coaching Practice and leader of BTS's Global Leadership Practice. Jerry is a pioneer in the fields of leadership and coaching. He founded 'Coach in a Box', one of the first companies to employ virtual coaching to reach the masses. Coach in a Box quickly grew to be one of the world's biggest coaching companies with over 250 coaches in 40 countries working in 27 languages. Jerry is also a founder of Bridge, a top global leadership consultancy and of two not-for-profit organizations in international development and developing leadership in young people. Jerry is Head of Strategy for the Bridge Institute and a specialist in big systems change. Jerry lives in Sydney and is the architect behind the mindset research and the IP that has now benefitted over a half a million business leaders worldwide. Mastering MESSY leadership is his third book.
Lee Sears (Author)
LEE SEARS is a leadership expert, commercial and social entrepreneur, author and speaker specialising in organisational transformation and place-based change. His work brings together transformations in business, education and place-based change.
With Jerry Connor, he co-founded Bridge and Coach in a Box, which grew into one of the world's largest coaching organisations, with 250 coaches operating in 40 countries. He specialises in helping senior leaders navigate major organisational and cultural change and achieve breakthroughs through innovation.
Alongside his work in business, Lee has founded developmental charities in Africa and the UK and spent the past fifteen years working to reshape education. He co-founded Big Education, a London-based multi-academy trust, and in 2026 established Meridian, a new school offering a more expansive education to prepare young people for an increasingly complex world.
His commitment to place-based change is reflected in his work in Bath, where he co-founded The Bath Bridge, a community interest company dedicated to the city's renewal, and established its Future Talent Programme. He has also served as a non-executive director of Bath Rugby and designed a Creative Leadership Programme for Bath Spa University as a potential precursor to a new MBA.
Lee lives in Bath with his family. Mastering MESSY Leadership is his second book.
Jerry Connor (Author)
JERRY CONNOR was the founder of BTS Coaching Practice and leader of BTS's Global Leadership Practice. Jerry is a pioneer in the fields of leadership and coaching. He founded 'Coach in a Box', one of the first companies to employ virtual coaching to reach the masses. Coach i...
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