James Allerton is a pseudonym.
The author is a managing director at a UK company. He has ADHD, two burnouts in his history, and a business that has run better since he stopped pretending about the first two. Everything in Bandwidth is written from practice — the meeting-free day, the delegation doctrine, the hard conversations — because all of it is in use, this quarter, at a real company with real people in it.
That is also why the name is not real. A serving MD who writes candidly about burnout, performance management and his own neurology — while colleagues, clients and a board read along — can be honest or identifiable, not both. Pseudonymity here is not a hedge. It is what makes the frankness possible, and you should treat writing on these subjects by named senior executives with exactly the scepticism that trade-off implies.
There is no photograph, no potted CV, and no social media. The work will have to make the case on its own — which is, after all, the standard this book holds everything else to.
Correspondence: james@onbandwidth.com. Everything gets read; replies are written on the day without meetings, so they arrive weekly rather than instantly.