About the notebook

Thinking, filed as it happens.

The Notebook is where Coach Key writes between sessions. It is not a blog in the marketing sense — there is no content calendar and nothing here exists to rank for a keyword. These are the observations that repeat often enough across coaching conversations, keynote rooms and leadership teams that they are worth writing down once, plainly, so they can be pointed at later.

Every note is published on Substack (opens in a new tab) and mirrored here. Each one follows the same shape: a line most people recognise immediately, then the read on why it happens, then something you can actually do. Short on purpose. If a note needs three thousand words to be useful, it becomes a keynote or a chapter instead.

If one of them describes your week a little too accurately, take the free Find Your Gap™ assessment to find out which Gap type is driving it, or read about working with Coach Key directly.

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