Help your leaders become facilitators within and across teams
The ability to facilitate conversations within and across teams is a core leadership capability - and a strategic lever for collaboration, performance, and trust. Read on to download your free Facilitating Collaborative Conversations guide for leaders.
Case study: BWS Area Manager Summer Sesh
What better time to explore leadership than when every BWS Area Manager is in the same room before their Summer Summit? The AM Summer Sesh launched a new phase of Area Managers’ development as leaders of leaders, by focusing on a skill that can change everything in fast-paced retail.
The LDS Wheel™ design notes: Closing the gaps in leadership development
The LDS Wheel™ is about bridging research and practice to close the gaps that have held leadership development back for decades. It connects what we know with what we do — ensuring leadership development not only inspires but endures.
The LDS Wheel™: Building effective leadership development systems
Even the best-designed leadership programs can’t carry the weight of transformation alone. What’s really needed is a leadership development system: one that becomes part of how the organisation operates day-to-day. The LDS Wheel™ shows you how.
Case study: Leading Teams to Thrive Through Change
How do you lead your team through change, without pretending it’s easy? That was the focus of a practical leadership initiative I designed and delivered to equip nearly 400 leaders, including the Executive Team, with tools to navigate uncertainty with clarity, empathy, and confidence.
The 5Gs of influence: A roadmap to build the skill of the moment
Whether it’s cross-functional projects, hybrid teams, or the daily dance of ‘getting stuff done’, having your ideas heard isn’t always about having the right answer. It’s about having the right approach. Enter: the 5Gs Influence Roadmap.
The Knowing-to-Doing Pathway™: Designing leadership programs that change behaviour
The Knowing-to-Doing Pathway™ is a design blueprint that aligns with the most widely applied model of behaviour change in the world. Learn how to design leadership programs as a process that unfolds over time to guide leaders from knowing to doing.
Case study: Communicating with Impact workshop series
This virtual workshop series combined application anchors, peer-to-peer learning, and reinforcement to empower team leaders to communicate with more impact and level up their stakeholder engagement.
Why it pays to swim with the current when developing leaders
When supporting leaders in changing their behaviour for the better, at first glance, ‘swimming with the current’ sounds counterintuitive, right? Here are four reasons why it’s not.
Case study: Above Store Leadership Program
Find out how RG Restaurants continues to invest in leadership development to support business growth and is generously sharing their secret sauce (scratch that – herbs and spices!) with others.
Case study: Inspiiring Leaders program
Learn how I partnered with Spiire, a property and infrastructure consultancy, to co-design the Inspiiring Leaders program for talented, emerging leaders, with a focus on creating a learning experience that lasts.
Case study: Setting the tone from the top
Following the development of brand-specific leadership frameworks for Dan Murphy’s, BWS, and ALH Hotels, I was invited to take things a level higher, supporting Endeavour Group to embed leadership development more broadly across the enterprise.
Case study: Bottling what great leadership looks like
Co-designed “for us, by us” with Store Managers, Area Managers, State Managers and the national exec team, learn how we created the Leadership 6-Pack: six crisp, clear leadership practices that speak directly to Dan’s culture and strategy.
Five tips for facilitating opportunities for leaders to learn from their leaders
I get a buzz from facilitating opportunities for leaders to learn from their leaders. Here are my top 5 tips for doing so, if you're also keen to try it in your organisation.
Leaders are not unicorns
You will never find a leader who embodies and exemplifies every perspective on what it takes to be a great leader. Such a unicorn does not exist, let alone an entire organisation full of them. Here's what to do instead.
Case study: Defining success factors that reflect and reinforce culture
What does “great” look like in your organisation? That’s the question I partnered with Six Degrees Executive to answer - turning deep insight into a practical, punchy success framework that now anchors their performance, development, and talent conversations.
Does your leadership program come with AAs?
Does your leadership program come with AAs? I don’t mean batteries; instead, I use “AAs” as shorthand for “application activities,” and I believe these can charge up your leadership development program.
Case study: Leadership Growth program
This six-month leadership program for Yarra Valley Water includes an enablement strategy for closing the knowing-doing gap. Read on to find out what this strategy looks like in action!
Five benefits of habit-stacking leadership development
A lack of time during busy workdays is often reported as a barrier to leadership development. One way to circumvent this is to habit-stack leadership development by weaving it into existing operating rhythms.
Case study: Reimagining capability with a leadership framework for everyone
Committed to shaping a resilient, contemporary workforce, TAC identified the need for a refreshed capability framework to support meaningful performance, development, and career conversations at all levels, based on the belief that leadership is a mindset, not just a role.
