Across many large organisations, effort is increasing while decision making is slowing. Priorities multiply, work fragments, and too many decisions funnel upward, leaving senior leaders overloaded and teams waiting for direction. This keynote reframes productivity as a structural and decision-rights issue, not simply a workload or resilience problem. As complexity rises, performance is lost through unclear ownership, duplicated approval loops, and executives becoming the default escalation point for decisions that should sit elsewhere. The session explores how leading organisations are redesigning decision frameworks, clarifying accountability, and using matrixed structures deliberately to release capacity, not create confusion. It examines how C-suite leaders can free their own time while strengthening focus and performance across the system. Key takeaways: - Identify where executive decision bottlenecks are quietly eroding speed and organisational capacity. - Learn how matrixed structures and clearer decision rights can reduce escalation and increase autonomy. - Explore how people leaders are reclaiming executive focus by redesigning governance and accountability. - Gain practical perspective on sustaining performance without burnout becoming the cost of complexity.