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New The one-page quarterly plan, free to download

Fewer priorities, honestly measured.

Executive and team coaching for Australian businesses that have outgrown running on instinct and have not yet found what replaces it.

Working with teams at Barwon FreightVantage HealthEllery & Sons Corio ManufacturingSouthbank Legal
Solutions

Three problems we are usually called about

Almost every engagement starts as one of these, whatever it was called in the first conversation.

01

Too many priorities

Everything is important, so nothing finishes. We cut the list to what the quarter can actually carry and put a measure against each one.

02

Decisions stuck at the top

The owner is the bottleneck and knows it. We move the decisions down a level without losing the standard.

03

A team that has outgrown its habits

What worked at eight people does not work at twenty-five. New rhythms, written down, so they survive a busy month.

About

A small practice, deliberately

We take on a limited number of engagements at a time because the work is the relationship, not the framework. No associates, no playbook applied to a business it was not written for.

Since 2015In practice
60+Leadership teams
3Coaches, and that is on purpose
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Services

Four ways we work with a team

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Quarterly strategy sessions

One day a quarter with the leadership team. You leave with the next ninety days written down and owned by name.

A one-to-one executive conversation

Executive coaching

Monthly one-to-one for the person carrying the decisions. Confidential, and the only agenda is theirs.

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Operating rhythm design

The meetings, the numbers and the cadence that keep a plan alive after the offsite finishes.

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Team facilitation

For the conversation the team keeps not having. We run it, and nobody has to chair their own difficult meeting.

How an engagement runs

Four steps, and you can stop after the first

The diagnostic is useful on its own. Plenty of teams take it and run the rest themselves, which is a fine outcome.

  • 01A diagnostic conversation with the leadership team, half a day.
  • 02A written read of what is actually in the way, with the evidence.
  • 03A ninety-day plan with owners and measures against each item.
  • 04Monthly sessions to keep it alive, for as long as it is useful.
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People

Who you would actually be working with

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Harriet LoFounding partner
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Declan MossExecutive coaching
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Wen ZhaoOperating rhythm and measures
In their words

What changed, in their own words

"We came in with fourteen priorities for the quarter. We left with three, and for the first time in years we finished all of them."

Rachel ElleryManaging Director, Ellery & Sons

"The honest part was being told the bottleneck was me. I had paid two other consultants not to say that."

Resources

Useful whether or not you call us

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Planning

The one-page quarterly plan

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Measures

Three numbers most teams should stop reporting

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Rhythm

The weekly meeting that earns its hour

Get started

Start with the diagnostic

Half a day with your leadership team and a written read of what is in the way. No obligation to take the rest.