Oscar Buijten

#leadership #authenticleadership #clarity #resilience #executivecoaching #strategicleadership #ciso #personaldevelopment #mindfulleadership

That’s the space I hold for my clients.
Helping them find progress without losing themselves along the way.

👉 Book your free Strategy Call: oscarcoach.eu/1qX6u

🌿 Some leaders push harder when things feel messy.
Others pause. To realign, refocus, and move forward with calm and clarity.

🧭 If you’re at a crossroads, that pause can change everything.
It’s where the noise quiets, priorities sharpen, and direction returns.

🎧 Listen to Chapter 6: Financial Strategy for Security Leaders here 👇
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 A short pause to reflect on how financial clarity shapes influence — and how speaking the language of value turns security into strategy.

🎧 Chapter 6: Financial Strategy for Security Leaders

#CybersecurityLeadership #BusinessAlignment #RiskManagement #SecurityInvestment #LeadershipStrategy #ExecutiveCommunication

It’s about translating risk into language the business understands; impact, return, and resilience.

Because when you can connect security to strategy and to value, you stop defending a cost center… and start leading an investment.

Budgets tell a story, not just of numbers, but of priorities.

Every euro/dollar you protect, invest, or request says something about what your organization truly values.

For security leaders, mastering finance isn’t about becoming an accountant.

🎥 When the pressure spikes, people don’t want noise.
They want direction.

Back at Dell, I’d hear this often:
“The team’s overwhelmed. What do we do first?”

My answer was always:
“Let’s cut the noise.
If we only do one thing right today, what must it be?”

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#leadership #authenticleadership #clarity #resilience #executivecoaching #strategicleadership #ciso #personaldevelopment #mindfulleadership

That’s the space I hold for my clients.
Helping them find progress without losing themselves along the way.

👉 Book your free Strategy Call: oscarcoach.eu/1qX6u

Visual composition illustrating calm, authentic leadership symbolizing reflection, clarity, and the human side of progress. Represents leaders finding direction and staying true to themselves, even in complexity.

🌿 Some leaders push harder when things feel messy.
Others pause. To realign, refocus, and move forward with calm and clarity.

🧭 If you’re at a crossroads, that pause can change everything.
It’s where the noise quiets, priorities sharpen, and direction returns.

If you’d like to listen, all audiobook chapters are here 👇

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A short space to pause — and reflect on how you show up when things shake.

#CybersecurityLeadership #CrisisManagement #LeadershipPresence #ExecutiveComposure #AuthenticLeadership #ClarityUnderPressure

This chapter dives into how to stay grounded when pressure hits, so your presence becomes the calm others follow.

🎧 Chapter 5: Mastering Incident Leadership

It’s the voice that steadies a team, the pause before the next move, the decision that keeps purpose alive while the noise peaks.

That’s the essence of Incident Leadership:
Not reacting faster, but holding the line longer.

Crises don’t wait for the perfect plan.
They test what’s already built inside you, composure, clarity, and trust.

When everything around you speeds up, real leadership is what slows down.

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🧭 Discover how you communicate under pressure, and what helps you project calm, clarity, and confidence.

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🎯 In the boardroom, how you speak matters as much as what you say.
Executives want clarity, confidence, relevance, ... and usualy fast.

These 3 lines change how they hear you:
1️⃣ Here’s what matters most right now
2️⃣ Here’s the risk I’m seeing, and the impact if we ignore it
3️⃣ If I were in your seat

#leadership #authenticleadership #clarity #resilience #executivecoaching #strategicleadership #ciso #personaldevelopment #mindfulleadership

That’s the space I hold for my clients.
Helping them find progress without losing themselves along the way.

👉 Book your free Strategy Call: oscarcoach.eu/1qX6u

🌿 Some leaders push harder when things feel messy.
Others pause. To realign, refocus, and move forward with calm and clarity.

🧭 If you’re at a crossroads, that pause can change everything.
It’s where the noise quiets, priorities sharpen, and direction returns.

How much control do you need to feel safe, and how much can you release to grow?

👇 I left a few words in the comments about what this trade-off really reveals in leadership.


#Leadership #Cybersecurity #CISO #Audiobook #AuthenticLeadership

and what it means to stay accountable even when the task isn’t yours anymore.

🎧 Chapter 4: Insourcing versus Outsourcing
Available on Spotify, Deezer, Amazon Music, and Apple Podcasts.

(Because clarity in decisions starts with clarity in responsibility.)

you’re not only moving work, you’re moving ownership.
And that changes the culture around you.

That’s the heart of this week’s chapter from Cybersecurity Leadership.
A quiet look at how strategic choices shape influence,

Some decisions aren’t about cost.
They’re about trust.

Every CISO faces it sooner or later,
what to keep close, and what to let go.

Insourcing or outsourcing.
Not just a budget choice, but a leadership one.

Because every time you delegate,

⚡ Why multitasking in a crisis makes you slower

We think doing five things at once makes us more efficient.
But when the pressure’s on — that strategy breaks down.

🧠 Your brain isn’t built to multitask.
It just switches tabs really fast.
And every switch costs you clarity.

🧭 Leaders at crossroads can learn the same shift.
It’s how you move from overload to influence —
without losing clarity. 

 👇 Check the first comment for a quick next step.
And tell me — which shift would change how you show up this week?

But the more you talk, the more the room tunes out —
not because you lack insight,
but because they’re not ready for the flood.

🤝 Diplomats know this instinctively.
Influence isn’t about speaking louder. 

It’s about speaking less —
with more weight,
at the right moment.

🎯 Speak Less, Influence More 
A different way to speak so people actually listen

💬 You explain. 
🌍 You translate. 
🧩 You justify.
 🔁 You repeat. 

 It comes with the job.