It’s 4:50 on a Thursday. Your strongest performer has just resigned – two lines, no reasons. When you tell the team, nobody looks surprised. That’s the part that should worry you, and the part you can actually do something about.
Bill Gasiamis works with leaders to make the behaviour behind moments like that visible, and to change it. Keynotes and consulting for teams that have had enough of the same friction.
You’ll recognise at least one of these:
None of these are capability problems. They’re behaviour under pressure – and behaviour is visible once someone shows you where to look. That’s the work.
Between 2012 and 2014 Bill had three haemorrhagic strokes and brain surgery, and for a while couldn’t walk. Before that he ran a Melbourne trades business for twenty years. Since then he has hosted more than 420 conversations with people rebuilding after the worst day of their lives.
What those years taught him is simple and uncomfortable: pressure doesn’t reveal what people are capable of. It reveals how they behave. Teams hold together or come apart on that difference.
If the scene at the top of this page sounded familiar, a conversation is the right next step. Here are the two ways it starts.
A keynote or workshop that gives your team one new way of seeing what happens to them when the pressure hits. The measure isn’t the applause. It’s the conversation they have in the car park afterwards.
For teams past the point of a talk. A structured engagement that puts the behaviour on the table – measured, named and worked on – so the next time a deadline moves, the room argues about the work instead of each other.
Four things leaders notice after the work.
The patterns that keep tripping the team have names, and everyone can see them.
People see how they actually behave when the deadline moves, and what to do instead.
The disagreement that was always in the room happens out loud, and early.
When the next restructure, resignation or bad quarter lands, the team bends instead of snapping – without Bill in the room.
Between 2012 and 2014, Bill experienced three haemorrhagic strokes and underwent brain surgery. He woke up unable to walk, with no certainty about what his life would look like — or whether it would look like anything at all.
What he discovered in recovery changed the way he understood human performance. Not just the physical work of healing, but the harder work of navigating fear, uncertainty, and the gap between who you thought you were going to be and who you actually are under pressure.
Today, Bill works with leaders, teams, and organisations across Australia as a keynote speaker and workplace behaviour consultant — bringing a perspective on performance under pressure that is both deeply personal and evidence-informed.
He is the author of two books: Your world doesn’t have to stay this small, a guide to post-traumatic growth grounded in the research of Tedeschi and Calhoun; and The Unexpected Way That a Stroke Became the Best Thing That Happened, his account of recovery and personal transformation after three brain haemorrhages.
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Every case in this book was a workplace where someone, at some point, said “that’s just how he is.” Coronial findings, court judgments and regulators’ files, with no commentary – what was tolerated, and what it led to.
Every case in this book was a workplace where someone, at some point, said “that’s just how he is.” Coronial findings, court judgments and regulators’ files, with no commentary – what was tolerated, and what it led to.
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