News & Updates — Stuart Deadman

The Suffolk Back Yard Ultra is a simple format (4.167 miles every hour), but it becomes a powerful leadership lens: pacing, composure under fatigue, and repeating the basics when you want shortcuts. This post explains what the event teaches about holding standards under pressure, and how to apply it to teams, projects and decision-making.

Most project disputes don’t come from big mistakes, they come from small moments that weren’t captured properly. A verbal decision, an assumed detail, a change agreed in passing. Then later, nobody remembers it the same way.