Faris Aranki and I talk about what it really takes for teams to perform and why the thing standing in the way is rarely strategy or intelligence. Faris talks us through his equation (Success = IQ × EQ × FQ) based on 20 years of watching some brilliant organisations fail to execute on perfectly good ideas. We get into resistance and how it shows up in the kids who walked into his maths classroom certain they couldn't learn and in the boardrooms where groupthink is found. We talk about fixed belief systems and biases. There's a lot of practical wisdom here about listening for what people leak, sharpening language and how his formula for success comes to life in an organisation. And we end on the two-metre radius around each of us and what becomes possible when we simply look after that well.

Faris Aranki is the CEO of Shiageto Consulting, an innovative consulting firm blending strategy and emotional intelligence; we will discuss how Faris went from high school teacher to CEO and all the skills he picked up along the way. Having spent over 20 years delivering strategic change for businesses around the world, Faris has experienced first-hand the fine differences between success and failure. He came to realise what hinders institutions from achieving their goals isn’t the quality of their ideas; it’s their ability to get engagement and focus around those ideas; aspects he is an expert in. To build on this passion he set up Shiageto Consulting in 2019 to help businesses and individuals improve their strategic effectiveness and they now work with some of the top organisations in the world. On top of leading Shiageto, Faris is now an accomplished speaker, writer and contributor for a variety of outlets.