I am an experience-led author with a background in leadership, transformation, and systems change. I have spent decades working inside organisations, projects, and institutions where decisions look neat on paper but unfold very differently in reality.

That gap between intention and outcome is where my writing lives.

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Background and perspective

Before writing, I worked across leadership, operational delivery, and change roles. I have seen improvement programmes succeed, stall, and quietly fail. I have watched good people struggle inside systems that were never designed with real human behaviour in mind.

Rather than rejecting methods outright, my work asks harder questions:
When do they help? When do they harm? And who carries the cost when they fall short?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Why I write

I write because too much modern thinking is built on distance. Distance from consequence. Distance from people. Distance from reality.

My books are not about being right. They are about being honest. About slowing down judgement, noticing patterns, and asking better questions of ourselves, our organisations, and the systems we build.

Personal note

I am interested in how everyday life has changed over the last sixty years, how leadership has drifted from lived experience, and how progress is often measured without reflection. Writing is my way of making sense of that shift.

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Contact

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Reach out to share thoughts, questions, or reflections on my writing.

Connect

Questions, thoughts, or just saying hi.

Email

Phone

Skelton.dave2@gmail.com

+44 7713 480988