In this short conversation with WSJ Pro Cybersecurity  (hosted by Jackie Hunter ), John Childress shares a leadership lens on cyber security: why the real exposure is often human behaviour under pressure , and why cyber outcomes improve when leaders treat culture as a managed risk , not a slogan. Rather than staying in the weeds of tools and training, John focuses on the conditions  that shape everyday decisions — priorities, incentives, decision rules, and accountability — a

Fishing is not the same as catching — and leadership isn’t the same as results. In this episode of Soul of Business  with Blaine Bartlett, John Childress joins the conversation to explore what helps strategy and intent travel into execution. John is co-founder and Chairman of Pyxis Culture Technologies, and previously co-founded the leadership and culture consultancy Senn-Delaney (1978), building it into an international firm supporting senior leadership teams. He has authore

Most organisations treat culture as something “soft”—until something hard happens: a failed transformation, a safety incident, a conduct breach, or a cyber event that should have been preventable. My view is simple: culture impacts business results, positively or negatively. There is no neutral culture. It either enables your strategic objectives—or quietly blocks them. And when strategy changes, culture has to change with it. An old culture that’s misaligned with a new strat