Nick Hassett: The Problem Won't Be Solved by the Thinking That Created It

On the Subject of Leadership · Apr 28, 2026 · 1h 4m

Nick Hassett has spent more than three decades intervening in organisations under pressure—not as a theorist, but as someone called in when the politics are already difficult and the gap between what the board believes is happening and what is actually happening has grown wider than anyone has yet said aloud. His work spans banking, technology, essential infrastructure, and sport across Australia and Asia, covering the full arc of an organisation in trouble: mobilisation, intervention, and recovery.

In this conversation, we explore why transformation programs fail when the people leading the…