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Groundwork: What a Stressed C-Suite Has to Settle Before Anything Above It Holds

Decision Order in a Stressed C-Suite: how the Peak Performance Pyramid sorts what a leadership team settles first and what can wait

Tayyaba Jordan watches stressed executive teams spend their best hours on the decision sitting at the top of the pile, and almost none on the conditions that decide whether that call is any good. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts with ten years coaching senior leaders, she uses her Peak Performance Pyramid to sort a leadership team's week into the layers it actually rests on: the attention a leader arrives with, the clarity of who owns what, the honesty of the room, and only then the strategy everyone is arguing about. She walks through what happens when a team keeps working the top layer while the base is missing, drawing on engagements with senior teams in London, Dubai, New York and Singapore where the pressure left no room to take the layers out of order. Listeners leave able to place their own hardest decision on the pyramid, and to name the layer beneath it that has to be settled first.

About Tayyaba Jordan

Tayyaba Jordan, podcast guest

Leadership and Performance Coach Helping Senior Teams Build Candour, Cohesion, and Human Sustainability

10+ years Coaching and training senior leaders2024 winner Global Woman Innovator of the YearFRSA Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts5 frameworks Named leadership and performance methods

Tayyaba Jordan is a leadership and performance coach who fixes senior-team cohesion, candour, and hidden burnout for CEOs, senior leadership teams and boards.

She got into this work after repeatedly encountering the same corporate patterns that quietly erode performance - slow decisions, mixed leadership signals, fractured communication, and isolated leaders. Raised in a household where her father brought philosophy, psychology and sociology into everyday conversation, she learned early to interrogate dynamics and language; that upbringing shaped her appetite for addressing what is not being said in organisations.

Her practice has developed over a decade of work with senior leaders; she lists ten years coaching senior leaders and holds roles including Executive Performance Coach at Wellness With Me and Leadership & Team Performance Specialist at her own practice. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has worked with organisations such as BBC, Spotify, Deloitte and the Wall Street Journal, and with clients across London, Dubai, New York, Singapore, Norway, Amsterdam, Japan, Iran and Beirut.

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