Our Services

We help Leaders and Teams improve their effectiveness

Whether it is through our Leadership programs, workshops, coaching or Executive team partnerships our work is consistently described as Practical, UsefulChallenging and Insightful

"The workshop on Humility challenged our thinking about how Humility works and what it contributes. The session inspired us to think about our levels of Humility. Even the skeptics loved it, and saw the business benefits"

LORAINE DARTNEL - NRMA

What We Do

Leadership Programs

We offer a range of short, medium and long-term Leadership Programs designed to help leaders to be more effective in their Operational, Cultural, Performance, Servant, Adaptive, and Change Leadership.

  • We offer flexible Leadership Development programs spanning 3 months to 1 year
  • We work with Middle Managers, Senior and Executive Leaders, Female Leaders, and Top Talent.
  • We deliver over 20 workshop topics across six key areas of Leadership – Performance, Change, Operational, Cultural, Servant and Adaptive Leadership.
  • Our workshops are offered in many formats from 45-minute webinars to 2-hour, half and full-day skill-building workshops.
  • We work with you to create tangible, medium, and long-term measures beyond workshop feedback. 
  • Our workshops and programs can be Virtual, in-person and hybrid delivery for national and international participants.
  • Our programs can be coupled with 360′ assessment tools or other Leadership initiatives
  • We deliver very practical workshops and experiences. Our programs include breakouts, live audience polling, immersions, case studies and real-time feedback.
  • Our programs are inclusive of resources including key slides, live audience polling and follow-up communication.
  • We offer both stand-alone Executive Leadership Development experiences and workshops, to comprehensive Leadership Development Programs that span 6 months to 2 years.
  • We focus on the HOW of execution. HOW the Executive team will lead strategy, initiatives, change and transformation across the organisation
  • Our partnership with Executive Teams lifts the standard of team behaviour, decision making and execution as well as creating shared language, and genuine collaboration.
  • The benefits Executive teams experience when working with us are better decision-making, risk assessment and communication, a higher and consistent standard of Leadership understanding and behaviour, and better relationships
  • Most of the work we do with Executive Teams utilises issues that are live across the organisation so that our programs integrate Leading real-world issues  with Leadership learning and behaviour change
  • Our programs can be supported by individual or small-group coaching.

Executive Team Coaching & Partnerships​

We partner with Executive Teams to refine and hone the HOW of Leadership both individually and as a cohesive unit. When the team at the top is aligned, constructive and clear, your entire organisation benefits.

 

Performance, Engagement and Change Workshops & Keynotes

We offer 45-minute through to full-day workshops on a range of topics spanning performance, engagement, culture and change. Expect powerful, engaging, relevant content combined with expert facilitation.

  • We deliver engaging and powerful Keynotes across a range of topics spanning performance, engagement, culture and change (see the list of topics below).
  • Both our workshops and keynotes are highly interactive, practical, engaging and expertly facilitated.
  • Our workshops and Keynotes are inclusive of key slides, live audience polling, further resources, and follow-up communication. 
  • Across thousands of workshops and keynotes our participants rate us an average of 4.6/5.

Some of the topics we offer are listed below. Of course, we can also work with you to design a particular topic that fits your needs.

  • Creating environments of 360′ high-quality Feedback – turning feedback into fuel for growth and performance.
  • Powerful Conversations – holding conversations that concurrently balance relationship and performance.
  • Creating a Constructive Culture – moving out of defensiveness and getting your Culture baseline right.
  • Adaptive Leadership – modern leadership in a changing world.
  • Creating and sustaining high-performing teams.
  • Leading with Emotional Intelligence.
  • Leading in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) World.
  • Strategic Value Creation – creating unity with stakeholders.
  • Tackling Leadership performance barriers – Perfectionism, Control, Micro-management.
  • Managing Change and Ambiguity in your team
  • Servant Leadership – the requirement for ethics, character and self-awareness in Leadership.
  • This is a bespoke, challenging and engaging multi-layered learning experience that takes place between a Leadership cohort and the Executive Team.
  • Both groups debate, reflect, share thinking, perspectives and insights on real-world challenges facing Leaders within the organisation.
  • This exercise can be run as a standalone activity, part of an offsite, or as an activity that is part of a broader development program.
  • The experience takes around 3-4 hours depending on the number of Leaders involved.
  • Outside of the Leadership development learnings, the exercise creates a line of sight into Senior Leaders and Talent, increased connection, Psychological Safety and a shared dialogue about important aspects of organisational leadership such as prioritising, workload and performance management.
  • You can learn more about how Live Learning Experiences work by watching the video.

Live Learning Experiences for Senior Leaders and Top Talent

Live learning takes a Senior Team or Top Talent cohort through a learning experience that utilises real issues in the organisation to drive debate, reflection, feedback and deeply insightful learning between the Senior/Talent and the Executive team.  

Navigating Change Resistance Program

The biggest barrier to successful change is Change Resistance. Human resistance to change is normal and endemic: it’s a powerful force. Leaders should expect to encounter it, and plan to embrace and use it as fuel for successful change.
  • This specialist program proactively addresses and manages change resistance across the organisation. We transform change resistance into fuel for successful change.
  • We deliver our program in parallel with your transformation or change program
  • Depending on the scale of your organisational change initiative we will usually have a 6-10 workshop series 
  • Our workshops address the emotional journey of change. We support and educate Leaders and employees through this journey as it unfolds in your organisation
  • The benefits you can expect from running this program are immense. Firstly, your change program will move faster, and more smoothly, Leaders will be equipped to respond to their own and others’ emotions during change and finally, the program delivers a high level of change maturity – which sets you up for your next change.
  • There are 2 programs available. A Leaders program and an Employee program.
  • This program can be delivered in-person, virtually or hybrid, nationally and internationally
  • The program includes deep stakeholder engagement, multiple points of feedback, insights and recommendations as well as a range of measures.
  • You can learn more about the program in the video below.
  • I offer expert coaching combined with deep Leadership and organisational experience.
  • I coach CEO’s, Executives, Senior and Top Talent Leaders and small groups.
  • There is no minimum term, or lock-in contract to sign.
  • I offer four coaching formats. CEO format of 2-3 hours per month. Senior Executive for 1 hour per month. FAST 20-minute coaching sessions fortnightly. Small group coaching for between 3-4 Leaders for 90 minutes per month.
  • I have over 20 years of professional coaching experience across the Public, Private and Not-for-profit sectors. I hold a Masters of Organisational Coaching from Sydney University.

Executive & Small Group Coaching

Expert coaching for clients who want a coach who ‘gets it’ and can hold clients at their edge.

Getting your Culture Baseline right

An often overlooked, but critically important aspect of individual thinking and behaviour and organisational culture is its starting point. The baseline. And that baseline is either defensive or it is constructive.

  • This unique program directly addresses defensive behaviour in the workplace. 
  • When defensive behaviour is present among Leaders or employees it directly undermines the company values, performance, engagement and culture.
  • Our workshops are a highly interactive, engaging and effective way to set a new behaviour baseline – one that is constructive, responsible and empowered. This becomes the baseline on which all organisational activities stand.
  • This content can be run as a short workshop, or in a half-day format. It is also an exceptional keynote.
  • The workshops deliver profound, immediate and long-term insights, learning and behaviour change.
  • This content gets to the heart of demonstrating how culture begins with each of us, and that we are each responsible for our behavioural choices.
  • We can deliver in-person, virtual or Hybrid to any level of Leader and employee in the organisation.
  • For more information on this profound content please watch the video.
  • The focus of our Female Leadership Development is helping female Leaders transcend gendered conditioning to become powerful, adaptive, constructive and effective Leaders in any organisation.
  • This program is expertly facilitated and fully integrated with the client organisation’s culture, performance and cultural reality and expectations.
  • The program length is between 6-12 months, it includes workshops, and coaching and can integrate 360′ Leadership appraisals.
  • We engage deeply with our clients and Female Leaders to ensure the right content and coaching fit and robust program measures.

Female Leadership Programs

Strong Female Leadership is a must-have for high-performance, high-engagement, customer-centric organisations.

What You Can Expect

01.

Challenge & Growth

We don’t do “training-tainment”. Our participants can expect an environment that combines and balances Psychological Safety and challenge so they can extend their understanding, skills and confidence. Growth = support + challenge!

02.

Interactivity

More than 50% of all our workshops and courses are practical. Virtually, in-person or hybrid our work includes immersions, group work, live polling, discussion and lots of Q&A time.

03.

Turbo-Boosted Confidence

We help our participants understand and practice new skills, as well as cement the strengths they already have. Our courses and coaching have inspired participants to profound behaviour change as they see what they are capable of.

04.

Practical Outcomes

This isn’t a research or theory download. Our workshops and courses are practical, action and behaviour-oriented. We engage with our participants’ existing experience and skill sets and show them how to expand on those, delivering practical outcomes.

05.

Personal insights

Personal insights are the Why of behaviour change. No skill development or new behaviour can be sustained without personal insight. All our workshops and programs deliver personal insights that facilitate understanding and professional behaviour change.

06.

Focused Behaviour Change

Our ”walk away” is not 55 actions. Our participants leave our workshops with several deep personal insights, and key, foundational behaviour shifts that can be implemented immediately. Our courses build on insight and action over time to create new Leadership perspectives and skill sets.

07.

Empirical Research & Models

We use high-quality research and established models in our courses. They’re combined with experience, practical realities and skill building to synthesise the Why, What and How for our participants.

08.

Great Resources

We share key slides and further resources with all our participants and a course summary immediately post the workshop. Additionally, we offer multiple simple ongoing resource options. These tools help everyone to stay on track and continuously embed their learnings.

Google Reviews

5/5

Jonathan

Deb’s course with my team at Quantium was the single best professional development program I’ve experienced! She’s a natural at her role, and great at tailoring best practices to the specific needs and scenarios we had with our clients. Would love to work with her again!
 
 
5/5

Michael Panich

Deb really gets how to get performance through people. I’ve always found her advice to be practical and effective.
 
 
5/5

Regina Warth

Deb is an amazing facilitator completely recommend their programs. They will challenge you and help you learn and grow.
 
 
 
 
Testimonials

What Clients Are Saying

"Deb is believable, passionate and respectful in leading her audience to reach their own personal outcome for BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE - this is a rare skill in a facilitator."

Raechel Gavin Group Executive- People & Culture Quantium

"Deb’s approach was to ensure I was going on my own journey, which led me to discover things about myself that I had not previously been aware of. She then guided and supported me to build a plan to help me achieve both my personal and professional goals. My leadership skills are certainly stronger today from the coaching I received from Deb. "

Mel Robertson - VP - People, Culture & Network E360

"The workshop on Humility challenged our thinking about how Humility works and what it contributes. The session inspired us to think about our levels of Humility. Even the skeptics loved it, and saw the business benefits"

Loraine Dartnel - NRMA

"I got a huge amount out of the Leadership course this year, it has really made me re-evaluate a lot of my behaviours. A big take-away for me has been that to advance and get better at what I do is not about putting in more hours and taking control of everything, but being more effective and creating environments for the team and myself to grow and deliver great outcomes. It is all very much a work in progress, but I feel I have more tools to know what to do."

Participant - 12 month Leadership accelerator

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