Resources by Katie

Katie started her career as a journalist. Not because she wanted to report facts — but because she was insatiably drawn to understanding how things work. Why people behave the way they do. What's really going on beneath the surface of a story.

Have a peek inside Katie’s brain...

"I'm never hiring a Gen Z again..."

The problems in today’s workplaces - burnout, disengagement, AI atrophy, attrition, multigenerational tension - are not disconnected symptoms. They are structured...

Katie Iles

Apr 182 min read

Workplace Disengagement: Leadership Failure or System Signal?

Gallup’s 2025 Global Workplace report shows just 21% of employees are engaged . And manager disengagement is the major driver (74% of outcomes hinge on this). Disengaged...

Katie Iles

Apr 182 min read

5 Generations, 3 Models, 1 Workplace

Why your culture, people, or performance problem is probably a system design issue. Leaders are now managing five generations within three different operating systems of work - each with a distinct social contract around trust, safety, and merit. This is why managers are burning out. They’re wedged within multiple human realities, trying to translate between systems that were never designed to coexist. The good news is that all models of work (and the generations attached to

Katie Iles

Apr 23 min read

A Mid-Life Crisis + The House of Lords = The Praxis Collective...

Leadership has become theatre - performative rather than legitimate. Trust has become transactional. Cultural systems, once designed to hold meaning and cohesion, are collapsing...

Katie Iles

Apr 22 min read

Leadership Incompetence or Organisational Incoherence?

It’s not incompetence, it’s incoherence Workplaces today are not struggling because of incompetence, but because of incoherence. From multigenerational tension to mass..

Katie Iles

Apr 21 min read