Raise the Standard - single copy

You have documented everything and you still cannot move the room.

The register's current. The SOPs are written. The audit came back clean and the board pack went up on time. Then a decision gets made in a room you weren't in and none of it counted.

I've sat with more than 500 New Zealand businesses and I keep finding the same thing. It was never a documentation problem. The people making the decisions can't see what you can see and nobody has ever handed you a method for changing that.

That's what this book is. Three frameworks I've used in the field for years, a diagnostic that scores where an organisation actually sits and twenty questions you can put in front of your own leadership team.

What's inside

• G.A.P.E. Governance, Assumptions, Practice and Evidence. The four layers where a good organisation quietly stops seeing itself. Twenty diagnostic questions, five per layer, plus one rule that changes every answer. If you can't show the evidence it's a no.
• S.A.F.E.T.Y. Strategy, Accountability, Feedback, Execution, Trust and You. Six load-bearing elements of a leadership system. Most organisations are holding the roof up with one of them and calling it a culture.
• F.E.E.D. Feedback, Engagement, Evidence and Development. The engine that keeps the other two honest. Reporting isn't the same as being heard and the difference is measurable.
• The Compliance Compass diagnostic, a board card you can take into your next meeting and a set of tools you can run without me in the room.

The detail

• Paperback. ISBN 978-0-473-80262-2
• NZ$44.95 including GST and delivery anywhere in New Zealand
• Dispatched from 16 October 2026
• Cancel any time before dispatch and I'll refund you in full. Simply reply to your confirmation email and tell me

Coming to the Safety Summit on 15 October? Don't order this one. Everyone in the room gets a signed copy handed to them at the close and it's already in your ticket.

Reading it with a team? There's a five pack at $199, a ten pack at $379 and a twenty pack at $699. Every one of them works out cheaper a copy.