We help leaders and teams make progress.
Our Services
Leadership
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 grow in self-awareness, shape a meaningful direction for the organisation and achieve results with and through others.
Elements of leadership programs can include:
- Leadership Circle Profile 360, Collective Leadership Assessment 360 and Team Hive 360 – all tools for insight and frameworks for action.
- Productive conversation, feedback and coaching.
- Stakeholder journey; perspective taking, influencing and collaborating.
- 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 direction, founded on vision.
- Get into action in the direction of that vision.
- Influence, respond to, and serve, the wider system around them.
- Develop behaviours to achieve the vision (and enjoy the journey along the way).
- Recognise habits that block the vision (and create suffering along the way).
- Develop a healthy mind, body, heart and spirit.
- Through all this, shape a meaningful and productive work-life journey.
Quality 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 the conditions for success, for 1-to-1 conversation right through to groups of hundreds. For strategic development, culture change, team formation & rejuvenation and collaboration across silos. Our touchstone methods are Open Space, Future search and Game Theory to activate:
- Innate passion.
- Impulse to connect through robust, respectful conversation.
- Opportunity within conflict.
- Ability to self-organise and create pathways forward together.
Art in Change
Change initiatives are often built on, and delivered from, the rational mind. But change is enabled or thwarted by stronger forces of emotion and embedded belief. These are places that the Arts can reach and speak to.
Imagine an organisational case study, researched & developed by professional scriptwriters and actors:
- Entertaining people whilst exploring complex and contentious issues.
- Shedding light on the change agenda.
- Provoking dialogue between diverse stakeholders represented in the drama on stage.
- Highlighting how the vision and strategy plays out ‘on the ground.’
Or, imagine a custom-made song that, with humour and heart, sheds light on the experiences of people in their context, and invites authentic sharing and learning together.
Contact us to imagine with us how arts based development can assist your change journey.
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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