https://linusmurphy.com/ Linus Murphy is an elite executive coach. He coaches global CEOs, C-suite teams and elite athletes, drawing on 45% annual growth in businesses he led. en-gb https://linusmurphy.com/articles/spot-executive-burnout-before-the-board-does/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/spot-executive-burnout-before-the-board-does/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT Executive burnout risk shows in decisions and culture before it shows in a speech. Early signals leaders can act on—without pretending coaching replaces care. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/what-elite-sport-taught-me-about-boardroom-performance/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/what-elite-sport-taught-me-about-boardroom-performance/ Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT National champion discipline meets the chief executive role. Five performance transfers from elite cycling—and the sport myths leaders should stop copying. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/alberto-contador/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/alberto-contador/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Seven grand tours, a 2012 CAS ban, then a foundation team that won at the Giro and Aurum bikes with Ivan Basso. What a slow-built pipeline teaches a board. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/difficult-conversations-ceos-keep-postponing/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/difficult-conversations-ceos-keep-postponing/ Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Postponed conversations become culture. A CEO coach’s five-move structure for the talks senior leaders keep delaying—and how to close them cleanly. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-executive-energy-is-a-leadership-system/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-executive-energy-is-a-leadership-system/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT For CEOs, energy is strategy. A former high-growth CEO and national champion cyclist on designing load and recovery that protect judgement—not slogans. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/build-an-accountability-culture-that-scales/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/build-an-accountability-culture-that-scales/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Accountability is clarity plus consequence—not blame. How scaling companies install a culture that holds standards as headcount and geography grow. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/founder-to-ceo-transition-nobody-briefs-you-for/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/founder-to-ceo-transition-nobody-briefs-you-for/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Title changes fast; the operating system does not. A former start-up-to-scale CEO maps the founder-to-CEO shift boards rarely brief. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/how-ceos-decide-better-under-pressure/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/how-ceos-decide-better-under-pressure/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pressure reveals judgement; it does not create it. A former multi-country CEO shares a four-gate protocol for decisions when data is late and stakes are high. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/psychological-safety-at-the-executive-table/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/psychological-safety-at-the-executive-table/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Psychological safety among executives is a performance system—not a vibe. How CEOs make dissent usable at the table without creating chaos. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-coach-the-executive-team-not-just-the-ceo/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-coach-the-executive-team-not-just-the-ceo/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coaching only the CEO leaves the system untouched. When—and why—executive team coaching becomes the higher-leverage move. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/lonely-at-the-top-designing-support-for-ceos/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/lonely-at-the-top-designing-support-for-ceos/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lonely at the top is a design problem, not a personality flaw. How CEOs build confidential support that protects judgement—without theatre. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/tom-boonen/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/tom-boonen/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The 2005 world champion co-owns Iconiccars, Belgium's Donkervoort dealer. How he partnered with car people, then rebuilt the business around what he believed. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/executive-presence-is-a-decision-discipline/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/executive-presence-is-a-decision-discipline/ Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Executive presence is how your judgement lands under scrutiny—not a costume. A CEO-coach’s field guide to presence that survives the boardroom. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-ceo-coaching-beats-generic-leadership-training/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-ceo-coaching-beats-generic-leadership-training/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT CEO coaching is not a longer leadership course. A former multi-country CEO explains when coaching beats training—and how to brief it without theatre. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/pat-mcquaid/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/pat-mcquaid/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Irish road champion and twice Tour of Ireland winner who ran races, the Irish federation and the UCI from 2005 to 2013. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-defining-blind-spots-is-mission-critical/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-defining-blind-spots-is-mission-critical/ Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT High-growth companies rarely stumble because of a weak market or a slow product team—they stumble because leaders fail to see the thing everyone else can. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-self-team-awareness-pays-board-level-dividends/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-self-team-awareness-pays-board-level-dividends/ Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT High-growth organisations move only as fast as their leaders’ self-awareness—and as honestly as their teams are willing to see themselves. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/sean-kelly/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/sean-kelly/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Sean Kelly’s second career: a Flanders academy, Ireland’s first UCI Continental team (2006–2017) and a clothing range. What a CEO can take from it. https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-transferring-vision-is-the-ceos-job-one/ https://linusmurphy.com/articles/why-transferring-vision-is-the-ceos-job-one/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT A crystal-clear, repeat-until-it-echoes vision is the cheapest growth lever in your toolkit. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/jonathan-vaughters/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/jonathan-vaughters/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Vaughters won on Mont Ventoux, admitted doping, then built Slipstream Sports from $50,000 into a WorldTour team EF bought in 2017. What a board can learn. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/fabian-cancellara/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/fabian-cancellara/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT Double Olympic champion, events founder, then owner of Tudor Pro Cycling. How Cancellara chose the owner's chair and left daily running to his CEO. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/chris-hoy/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/chris-hoy/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT Six Olympic golds, then HOY Bikes with Evans Cycles. Why Hoy called it a project, not a product, and what that teaches a board about launches. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/chris-boardman/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/chris-boardman/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT Olympic pursuit gold, British Cycling R&D, Boardman Bikes and the Halfords sale, then Sport England and Active Travel England. A method that scaled. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/eddy-merckx/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/eddy-merckx/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT Merckx retired in 1978 and opened Eddy Merckx Cycles on 28 March 1980. What his teacher, his sale and four owners teach a board about life after the peak. https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/greg-lemond/ https://linusmurphy.com/peloton-to-boardroom/greg-lemond/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT Three Tours, a Trek licence that ended in court, then LeMond Composites. What a rider-founder teaches boards about owning the system behind a name.