Are You A Secure Base Leader?
A powerful approach for a contemporary world that recognises the need for safety and caring, and the encouragement to dare and take risks.
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Grounded in modern
neuroscience and psychology
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Practical solutions shaped
by decades of leadership
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Programs designed for
sustainable results
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built on trust and results
About Kemp Street Partners
I have spent more than two decades working with senior leaders across Australia, New Zealand, and internationally. The thing that consistently strikes me the most, is that what gets in the way of great leadership is rarely capability. It is almost always more internal than that. That insight is where my work begins.
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Whether you are looking to develop yourself as a leader, build a stronger team, or grow leadership capability across your organisation, each of these services is designed to create change that lasts; rigorous in its foundations and immediately useful in reality.
Executive
Coaching
Gain clarity on what’s next
and create a career path that
aligns with your strengths
and values.
Leader
Development
Build the mindset, skills and
confidence to lead with clarity,
courage and impact.
Team
Effectiveness
Strengthen collaboration,
resolve conflict and build
high-performing teams.
Personal
Effectiveness
Enhance self-awareness,
resilience and effectiveness
in the moments that matter.
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The Confident Leader Program
What if you could…
- Have that difficult conversation without lying awake the night before?
- Stop agreeing to things in the moment, then feeling annoyed later?
- Delegate important work and trust it will get done?
- Speak up or challenge in meetings where you’re not the expert ?
- Have better control over your diary and priortise non-work time?
If any of these sound familiar, then you might be interested in… The Confident Leader Program
The gap between knowing and doing is rarely about capability: it’s about the
stories we tell ourselves. These programs help leaders identify those patterns
and build confidence in the situations that matter most.
Case Studies
Building Leadership Capability Across a Distributed Tech Team
How a technology leadership team, navigating major organisational change, shifted their culture scores 11 percentage points year on year, from the bottom quartile to above the Australian average.
Team Effectiveness in a National Not-For-Profit
How a not-for-profit executive leadership team, operating in a highly competitive funding environment, improved their scores in 34 of 37 team effectiveness measures over nine months.
Personal Effectiveness for a Global Senior Leadership Cohort
How a leadership development module for an ASX 50 company, delivered to 175 senior leaders across five cohorts consistently translated into confidence to lead differently.
Latest Insights and Resources
Accessing information on a topic can be either the start of a learning journey or it can enrich the journey you are already on.
In this section, I offer some reading suggestions about leadership, organisations and teams, personal effectiveness and behavioural change.
The Stories We Tell Ourselves Sabotage Our Efforts
How we show up day to day can get clouded by the voices in our heads telling us how we should behave in certain situations.
Inferring Intent in Virtual meetings
We seem to struggle more with inferring intent in virtual meetings than we do in person and the research supports our impressions.
How Leaders Make Space for Deep Work
“I never have time to think strategically. I’m constantly putting out fires, doing emails, or being there for my team”. Sound familiar?
Delivering Feedback That Sticks
Giving feedback that sticks has always been challenging, but in a world of virtual meetings it’s become even harder.
What Really Distinguishes Outstanding Leaders
Definitions of what makes a highly effective leader are as numerous as the authors writing about the topic.
A New Take on Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrome is what growth feels like. New, different or difficult situations can easily lead to doubting or second guessing ourselves.
Making Behavioural Change Stick
Most of us have had the experience of wanting to change something about how we behave but failing to sustain it and not for lack of…
Your Emotions Are Showing, And You Can’t Fake It
The there is a direct link between our mindset, our emotions and the impact on others. Learn how to master these to increase performance.
Yes… Empathy Can be Learned
Contrary to early research, we now know that empathy is a skill which, with practice, can be learned/strengthened.
How You Lead Matters: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Leaders today operate in an ever-changing environment: How do you adapt and what is the impact on your team?
Escaping the Rumination Trap
Reflecting on a specific event, interaction etc. to glean learnings is a valuable exercise, but endless post-mortems and “I should haves” pushes us into an…
The Power of Reflection Time
Putting aside time and space for reflection or even just ‘thinking’ is an essential survival practice, not a nice to have.
Interviewing Tips and Techniques
Interviews are high stakes, anxiety producing situations. The key to a successful interview is your own mindset going in.
Life and Leadership in the 21st Century
It is a challenging time for even the best leaders; old models are increasingly ineffective. Take a fresh look at leadership development.
The Future of Sustained Leader Development
Why do organisations continue to focus their efforts in traditional classroom style workshops with little return on investment?
Want to cut through the noise?
We are bombarded every day with email, LinkedIn posts, Teams or Slack requests, texts, WhatsApp… How then do we find the things that we want to read versus driven by algorithms; relevant versus promotional; real versus AI?
I am always researching how I can be more effective, what the latest in thinking is when it comes to leadership and behavioural change.
Let me know if you would like to receive an article on these topics every month or so, written by me, based on my lived experiences and the latest research.
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