Experimental: The restless leader's field guide for building high performing, change-ready teams

by Amale Ghalbouni

You need your team performing at their best. Instead, they're drowning in the uncertainty brought on by the disruption all around them. They’re heads down, playing it safe, waiting to be told what to do at the exact moment you need them to show up differently.

You’ve tried empowering them and giving them more ownership, but it hasn’t worked.

That's because change readiness isn't a motivation problem. It's an environment problem. And environments can be intentionally designed to drive a different set of outcomes.

Experimental is a field guide for restless leaders inside complex, risk-averse organisations. It shows you how to understand why your team is playing it safe, build the five conditions that turn change-fatigued teams into change-ready ones, and run a repeatable process for shaping change that gets off the ground, builds collective courage, and actually sticks when it hits the reality of an organisation in flux.

You don't need to fix the whole system. You just need to build a corner of it where things work differently. Then let the proof do the persuading.

204 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 31, 2026