Do Not Adjust Your Focus Bonus Episode: Justin Featherstone (MC) - a decorated officer’s take on leading from the front and decision-making under pressure

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE

Leadership under fire: a decorated officer’s take on leading from the front, decision-making under pressure and the importance of autonomy and resourcefulness 

In episode 11 of Do Not Adjust Your Focus, Stuart talks to Justin Featherstone MC, a former Major in The Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment who was awarded the Military Cross for his actions in Iraq. 

Today, Justin is a leadership consultant who is a Fellow at the University of Exeter Business school as well as a part-time member of the faculty.  He is also is an annual lecturer at the University of Llubljana, Slovenia and an expedition leader who has led more than thirty overseas expeditions to the mountains, rivers and rainforests of the world. 

During the peak of Covid-19 earlier this year, Stuart and Justin met to talk about leadership in a crisis. They discuss the invisible enemies of ‘cabin fever’, isolation from family,  and depression, as well as what creativity means in the military: genuine problem-solving, as opposed to just ideas.

Justin also gives his opinion on the lazy comparisons between Covid-19 and "The Blitz".