Two Years of Helping Leaders Panic Slightly Less.
Two years of coaching, card decks, and awkwardly honest leadership advice. Still winging it… just a bit better now. Thanks for being here for the ride. 🥳
Modernworks has officially reached the ripe old age of two. In toddler years, that means we’re just about able to string a few sentences together and throw the occasional tantrum – which feels about right.
So, before we get misty-eyed and reflect on why we’re here, let’s have a quick look at who we are and what on earth we’re actually doing.
Our Mission
We exist to help people (especially those who are left floundering without proper support) become the kind of leaders who put people first – leaders who inspire teams to work together without resorting to passive-aggressive emails or interpretive sighs.
The end goal?
Teams that function well enough to achieve something a business might actually notice.
Modern Leadership
We’ve created leadership principle and method cards – a bit like Top Trumps, but instead of cars or dinosaurs, they’re for new managers who’ve just been promoted and are frantically googling “how to be a boss without everyone hating me.”
These cards cut through the endless management books and give you small, practical steps to experiment with, without accidentally inventing a cult.
We help people by:
Saving time – no need to spend your weekends wading through 600-page books with titles like The 7½ Habits of Highly Efficient Hamsters.
Offering advice you can actually use. Stories are nice, but if you can’t apply them, they’re just bedtime reading.
Pointing at reputable companies so you know it’s not just us making it up in the pub.
Learn to Lead
We also run a network for new leaders and managers who’ve been dropped in at the deep end and are wondering whether “winging it” counts as a valid management style. Here, they can get advice, swap stories, and realise they’re not the only ones secretly panicking under the desk.
We help people by:
Creating a safe space to share the highs, lows, and awkward email mishaps of leadership.
Giving access to the collective wisdom of people who’ve been there, done that, and possibly got the “world’s best boss” mug to prove it.
Why?
We’ve all been in those shoes – fresh managers with a vague job description and the haunting feeling you’re supposed to “know things.” We’ve compared notes, swapped horror stories, and figured out a few tricks along the way.
So we thought we’d share them, partly out of generosity, and partly because it’s cheaper than therapy.
Enjoy. Jess & Mark.