Experts in Technology Leadership Development

Trusted. Accountable.​
Sustainable Impact.

We believe in helping leaders become accountable, bold, brave, and confident in decision-making. Making them trusted voices within their organisations, leading with curiosity, agility, and empathy. With decades of experience in Technology  Leadership  Development, our team have a proven track record of success working with banking, aviation, mining, transport, insurance, retail and education ASX-listed companies.
ANZ Case studies
Australian Unity Case studies
Bupa case studies

We Understand the Key Performance Drivers & Metrics of Organisational Growth & Sustainability​

Evidence Based​

Evidence-based key diagnostics and tools, we draw upon and leverage insight to maximise impact.​ ​

Understanding

We deeply understand technology functions organisational context and currency, operating models and culture.​

Accountable

​ We are passionate, highly accountable and bring a co-creation lens to ensure success. We focus on embedment and key metrics to drive outcomes.​ ​

Our Approach

We know that your world is complex and constantly evolving. You need to drive high performance, manage operational model complexity, engage key stakeholders, manage teams and talent, ensure cybersecurity, manage strategic partnerships and vendors, leverage AI technologies, manage finances, and deliver digitisation transformation programs.

Our technology leadership programs are designed to have a tangible and transformative impact on organisations. We aim to produce the highest-performing technology leaders and leadership teams through evidence-based approaches that deeply understand organisational context, operating models, and culture. We are passionate and highly accountable, working collaboratively with our clients to ensure success by focusing on outcomes and key metrics.

Business Performance Uplifts

  • Operational model effectiveness and governance structures
  • Offshoring strategy cost saving realisation
  • Increased vendor cost and capability outcomes
  • Technology enabled customer impacts
  • Execution speed to deliver customer value

Team Performance Uplifts

  • Team trust, performance and productivity lifts
  • Clarity on strategic goals and benefits realisation
  • Increased strategic prioritisation
  • Greater technology and business alignment
  • More effective workload prioritisation and distribution

Exec Ascend drew on a combination of diagnostic tools and frameworks, strategic thinking and a deep understanding of leadership and team dynamics to deliver a program that brought out the individual and collective strengths of our team. Lisa intuitively understands what drives leadership behaviour and how to bring the best out of our people. She supports the team to take risks to deepen trust, alignment and team accountability to drive high performance and execution. Lisa is highly accountable and adaptable in her approach and enjoys co-creating and embedding leadership focus areas using clear metrics and evaluation.

Gerard Florian, Chief Technology Officer
ANZ, 2022

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If you would like to learn more about Exec Ascend or about our bespoke leadership acceleration programs, please contact us.