The Outer Game of Leadership: How to Unite and Inspire Teams in Times of Challenge and Crisis

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Paul O'Neill

The Outer Game of Leadership

How to Unite and Inspire Teams in Times of Challenge and Crisis

Paul O'Neill

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Lantern & Light Press
13 May 2025

Occupational & industrial psychology; Management: leadership & motivation; Organisational theory & behaviour

Series: Neuro-Resilience Skills

The Executive Edition of The Outer Game of Leadership is designed for those leading not just people-but atmosphere, alignment, and meaning.

YOU'VE MASTERED YOUR INNER STATE. NOW, LEAD THE SYSTEM.

The Outer Game of Leadership is the definitive guide for leaders who must unite teams, build psychological safety, and maintain cohesion under pressure-especially when the stakes are high, and the room is silent.

Following the success of The Inner Game of Leadership, this second volume in the Neuro-Resilience Skills series takes readers beyond personal state control and into the systemic realm: how to shape trust, culture, and group coherence in real time. In today's uncertain world, leadership is no longer about authority or charisma-it's about atmosphere. And leaders who understand the invisible signals that govern group behaviour hold the true advantage.

Through vivid stories, actionable strategies, and frameworks grounded in neuroscience and behavioural systems, Paul O'Neill equips you with the tools to:

Read group signals and respond before tension erupts Embed psychological safety into team rituals, rhythms, and responses Use tone, timing, and non-verbal cues to regulate a room Build group coherence through safety-priming and narrative alignment Lead not by force, but through presence, precision, and trust

Drawing from NLP, Polyvagal Theory, and over two decades of coaching teams through challenge and crisis, O'Neill introduces the PACE Protocol for teams-an approach that helps groups regain momentum, restore safety, and rewire for collective brilliance.

You'll discover how the best leaders don't just manage performance-they shape the conditions for it. They engage the system, not just the individuals. And they do it in a way that makes teams stronger, faster, and more resilient-even when everything else is falling apart.

For leaders who sense the undercurrents beneath the words-and who are ready to lead from that deeper place-The Outer Game of Leadership is the next step.

By: Paul O'Neill
Imprint: Lantern & Light Press
Edition: 2nd ed.
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 667g
ISBN: 9781764090735
ISBN 10: 176409073X
Series: Neuro-Resilience Skills
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 13 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul O'Neill is trusted by professionals in business, heavy industry, medical and mental health, and elite sports as consultant, coach and guide. For more than twenty-five years, he's been doing exactly that: guiding individuals, teams and entire organisations through the thickets of change, chaos and contradiction with a calm intensity that refuses to settle for surface solutions.His leadership record spans continents and industries, yet his work never follows a formula. That's the point. Real transformation, he insists, can't be imposed or standardised. It must be built, brick by deliberate brick, in the language, rhythm, and logic of those who live it.Clients across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, North America, and South Africa describe him as 'visionary', 'invaluable', 'a lifelong friend' - though the word most often repeated is 'transformational'. Not because Paul performs miracles, but because he hands the tools over. He trains people to recognise patterns, to respond to pressure with composure, to build resilience that sticks - not just in the individual nervous system, but in the culture of entire teams.Paul's training and coaching in neuro-resilience skills, verbal and non-verbal skills, group dynamics, complex problem-solving, stakeholder engagement and adaptive strategic leadership has helped professionals across sectors rewrite their stories - by both negating the harsh effect change can have on the leaders, as well as by navigating their group through it differently. He's known for making the complex understandable, for challenging the status quo with warmth and rigour, and for turning the work of change into something deeply human and fiercely practical.He remains, above all else, a practitioner. Someone who steps in, shoulder to shoulder, as a guide; and he stays until the work is done.If you've reached the edge of what you know and understand, Paul is someone you want in the room.