Developing leaders who move people
toward clear goals, together.
Our Services
There are countless definitions of leadership running around out there. We strip it back to the root word. To ‘lead’ suggests going somewhere.
Effective leaders move people and organisations forward. But they’re not just grabbing at the next shiny thing. They know that lasting change is built around what is preserved as well as what is created.
There’s a ton of research showing that effective leadership translates into business performance, healthy culture and stakeholder value. At Creative Wisdom, we are grateful to be able to play a part.
Leadership Programs
Whilst leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all, there are tried and tested levers for effectiveness, and these can be learned. And, there are a range of common habits that can get in the road.
We help leaders and leadership teams build self leadership, people leadership, team Leadership and strategic leadership (across system).
Elements of leadership programs can include:
- Domains of leadership; leading self, leading people, leading teams and strategic leadership (influencing across the system)
- Productive conversation, feedback and coaching
- Stakeholder journey; perspective taking and engagement
- Resilience, wellness and emotional intelligence
- Foundations of Leadership (for new and emerging leaders)
- Adaptive Leadership; ideals, realities and cultures (for experienced leaders)
Coaching
For individuals, groups and teams. Coaching is a development process over 3 to 12 months to help people:
- Set vision and direction
- Build self-awareness, the basis for improvement
- Get into action
- Influence and serve across the organisational system
- Develop habits that are effective (and make life enjoyable)
- Recognise habits that are ineffective (and create suffering)
- Develop a healthy mind, body and heart
- Through all this, shape a meaningful and productive work-life journey
Facilitating Cross System Group Dialogue
When people meet there is often a great deal at stake; commercially, politically, emotionally and culturally. Group conversations can produce remarkable results by bringing diverse views into dialogue. Yet complexity, contrasting values & priorities and good old human ego can make things tricky.
We set up conditions for success, for small groups to groups of several hundred. For strategy development, culture change, team formation & rejuvenation, project development and collaboration across silos. Touchstone methods are Open Space, Future search and some cracker games to activate:
- Innate passion
- Impulse to connect through robust, respectful conversation
- Opportunity within conflict
- Ability to self-organise and create pathways forward together
Diagnostics
Diagnostics are often misunderstood and sometimes misused. We don’t bow down to the feedback data. The data informs. The process of unpacking the data transforms. The main diagnostics we use are:
Leadership Circle 360 (for individuals) and Collective Leadership Assessment 360 (For leadership teams). These measure effective leadership in these areas:
- Relating: bringing out the best in people and teams
- Self Awareness: ability to be self-aware and self-managing amid complexity and pressure
- Authenticity: cut through conversations, grounded in values
- Systems Awareness: Ability to understand and lead across the whole system
- Achieving: Purpose focussed, decisive and outcome seeking
The tool also assesses tendencies that get in the road when willpower, people focus and mental prowess get overplayed or misdirected.
For intact teams and leadership teams: Team Hive 360 is the new kid on the block (though rigorously validated). It’s designed for building high performing teams. Evidence based, with AI support and accompanying digital tool kit, Team Hive is also scalable for enterprise level team development. We have fallen in love with this tool and so are clients.
The four factors Team Hive measures and develops are
- Purposeful (shared purpose and goal alignment)
- Learning (continuous learning and feedback built into culture)
- Shared Leadership (building Leadership capability in others so that leadership is distributed and scaled)
- Unified (team cohesion, ways of working and quality communication)
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”Brett was the facilitator and trainer of a year-long internal Innovation Program that I was selected for… I was a skeptic on the first day but I now possess the growth-mindset that he instilled from day one. I equate his teaching method to how I taught my son to ride a two wheeler. By course end it was me doing it. Progress over perfection.”
Christopher Southern Senior Risk Engineer -
"Loved the use of live role-play vignettes... captivating and a great learning platform."
Mark Henderson CFO, Zurich Australia -
"I have not seen anything that would rival the engagement of such a large and diverse group of leaders for that period of time. In regards to the results - I would say [4 months post event] we are about 50% completed with some projects getting off the ground faster than others."
Nicholas Renshaw Executive Team, Eli Lilly Australia Pty Limited -
"I have asked Brett to project manage, script and enact some complex and controversial leadership development Forum Theatre scenarios, and in each area he has not only far exceeded what was required, he has made a genuine intellectual and personal contribution to the projects. Brett is a rigorous project manager, an insightful, intelligent and humorous script writer, and as an actor is able to bring a depth of reflective thought and gut feel ability to capture key issues that is remarkable. I thoroughly recommend him as an intellectual colleague, performer and project partner."
Richard Badham Professor of Management at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management -
Brett's 'Creative State’ workshop was flat out brilliant! Brett's magic was his ability to make me feel comfortable enough to simply let go and open myself up to this new experience and fully engage in it. The workshop was very cleverly run, with a poignant message at the end that beautifully tied a bow around the entire active meditation. It was a unique experience for me and I was so impressed with what I had experienced.
Soulla Chamberlain Creator and Director of Star Anise Organic Wholefoods -
Brett is one of my most influential teachers... He has been a powerful influence on my work including the arts disability program Unlock Your Creativity and the arts and community cultural development programs I develop in disadvantaged communities.
Dr. Cali Prince Academic Educator, Western Sydney University