Awake at Work, Without the Wake-Up Call

Most organisations are not in crisis. That might be the problem.

They are functioning. People show up, work gets done, targets are met, and on the surface everything looks fine.

And yet, something feels slightly off. The energy is lower than it should be, creativity is quieter than it used to be, and purpose often ends up living on a slide deck instead of in the day-to-day.

That is what makes it tricky. Nothing is broken enough to force change. So we wait. We wait for disengagement to show up in the numbers, for people to start leaving, or for something to go wrong. Only then do we act.

Mike Stevenson has spent years walking into rooms like this. Not to deliver a quick burst of motivation, but to wake something up that has been quietly fading. No hype, no gimmicks, just a different way of looking at what we have come to accept as normal at work.

In this conversation, we will explore why organisations wait for pain before they change, what really sits behind low energy and absenteeism, and the difference between feeling inspired and actually changing something. We will also get into how creativity disappears in otherwise competent workplaces, and what it might take to reignite a sense of purpose before a crisis forces it.

And maybe the question worth sitting with is this. If nothing is obviously wrong, why does it still feel like something is missing?

If you work with people, lead people, or recognise that quiet drift yourself, this one might land closer than expected.

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