You're brilliant at what you do. Leading is a different game.
Experts want to work with one.
My clients come to me for my people expertise, but stay because of the rest. Operations. Information Systems. Marketing. A stint doing mergers and acquisitions. Then registration as a psychologist. That combination, plus twenty years of working with others like them, is what they value most. Because I help them achieve outcomes that are good for their business, their people, their customers, and themselves, rather than optimising for one at the expense of the others.
You might be looking for the right tool. I’ll help you get the right outcome.
Appointing Senior Leaders
I help you assess whether a candidate is genuinely suited to the role, your culture and your strategy, through a rigorous psychometric assessment process that blends sophisticated tools with twenty years of doing this work. It is less of a stop/go sign, and more about understanding how the candidate is wired: their strengths and development areas relative to the role, what to test in reference checks, and how to onboard for success if you choose to appoint them.
Developing Senior Leaders
I start with you: deep insight into who you are, how you operate, your values, your strengths, and the patterns that might not be serving you. Then comes the practical know-how, refined over twenty years with senior leaders just like you. Then we make it stick, one-on-one or with a small group of peers, so you lead in a way that gets results through others while being good for you, your people and the business.
Aligning Senior Leadership Teams
I help teams perform by making the implicit explicit. We get clear on what the team is actually trying to achieve and on a shared way of working to get there. Practical tools strengthen specific areas, like making decisions that optimise the whole business rather than one functional patch. And a documented operating philosophy turns it all into something tangible: stronger cohesion, collaboration and accountability, long after the session ends.
How we'll work together.
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Your commonly asked questions, answered.
Because I’m a registered psychologist, I’m bound by strict advertising standards. This means I can’t use testimonials that speak to the results clients have achieved by working with me. I’ve been fortunate to sustain a thriving practice through word-of-mouth alone for nearly two decades.
Before we decide to work together, you’ll always get the chance to interrogate my reasoning and approach for yourself. If needed, I can usually also put you in touch with someone who has worked with me on something similar. But respecting the confidentiality of my clients comes first.
Most of my clients are technical executives and partners, and the organisations that hire and develop them. I’m often called on to: 1. evaluate whether a candidate is right for the role, the culture and the strategy, not just whether they are good, 2. develop leaders who get results through others because they have created the conditions for success, not by burning themselves or their people out, and 3. build teams that deliver through clear purpose, a shared operating philosophy and real empowerment, not only when the leader is directing.
I’ll provide an outline of how I can help and the investment associated with different options after I’m clear on what you’re trying to achieve. Since a tool can be useful or useless depending on the situation, I offer packages rather than a menu with individual prices attached.
Leaders sometimes think that if they want confidential coaching and development, they have to pay for it themselves. But usually, the one-to-one work is confidential and the organisation still pays. That’s because the organisation and the leader both benefit from the leader’s development.
I live in Orewa, Auckland, but travel to other cities most weeks for face-to-face workshops and team sessions. One-to-one work mostly takes place online. My professional indemnity insurance means I can work all over the world.
Anyone can call themselves a leadership coach or do a psychology degree. Being registered means a professional body has assessed your qualifications and experience, and agrees you meet the standard expected of a psychologist. The same body keeps you accountable for maintaining those standards, and for continuing to develop through ongoing learning and supervision - regardless of your seniority.
No, a psychiatrist is a medical doctor who assesses, diagnoses and treats psychological, emotional, or cognitive problems that stem from psychiatric or physical disorders. I develop high-performing leaders, teams and organisations by blending the science of human behaviour as a registered psychologist with commercial experience and qualifications.