Executive & Senior Leadership Team Elevation

Trusted. Accountable.
Sustainable Impact.

We specialise in transforming executive leadership teams to maximise business impact. This involves working with senior teams to bring greater accountability, boldness, clarity and decisiveness.

With decades of experience in executive leadership development, we have a proven track record across banking, aviation, mining, transport, insurance, retail, and education. Our leadership work across ASX-listed companies has driven sustainable impact and elevated leadership capabilities.

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

Delivering
Transformative Outcomes

Our leadership programs deliver highest-performing leaders and senior leadership team elevation. By understanding your organisational business imperatives, context, operating models, and culture, we deliver evidence-based approaches that drive meaningful and sustainable change.

Our commitment to deep partnership collaboration and accountability ensures that we focus on outcomes and key metrics, driving strategic clarity, decisiveness and positive organisational culture lifts.

Elevate your executive leadership team with our expert guidance.

Our Approach

How We Work

At Exec Ascend, we use evidence-based and solution-focused methodologies to enhance senior leaders’ capabilities to achieve success at the individual, team, and organisational level.

Leadership Team
Discovery and Diagnostics

Using evidence-based diagnostic tools, we gain deep insights into critical focus areas:

Purpose And Vision
Trust
Psychological Safety
High Performance
Strategic Prioritisation
Decision-Making
Conflict Management
Organisational Structure
Change Orientation And Innovation Culture
Team Leadership Capability

Our High Performing Team Diagnostics utilise proven methodology to assess, understand and enhance leadership team capabilities. By identifying key strengths and growth opportunities, we provide a clear roadmap for team elevation through prioritising key levers and areas of focus connected to strategic business priorities.

As an example, we use DISC Team Profiling to enhance self-awareness and group dynamics, fostering a culture of high engagement and collaboration.

Bespoke 360-Degree Feedback Programs
Our bespoke 360-Degree Feedback Programs offer an evidence based evaluation of individual leadership capabilities, connecting strengths to development opportunities within the organisational context. We also incorporate key leadership indicators of potential and a career lens to our 360 program.
Online 360 Tool
As an example, we utilise the Hogan globally recognised feedback tools for comprehensive multi-rater insights.

Exec Ascend brought a rich understanding of executive team dynamics and building high performing teams to deliver a well-received and impactful Exec development program. Lisa builds trust at a CEO and Exec team level and draws on individual and team strengths. She worked with our Exec team to deliver exceptional results.

Julian Dehorney, CEO
Yarra Trams, 2022

Maximising Leadership Team
Insight & Acceleration

Senior Leadership Team Programs

We start with the business imperative and team mandate.

Our Leadership Team programs, informed by high-performance diagnostics, unlock deep insights into team dynamics. These programs enhance team mobilisation, awareness and trust, foster high-performing behaviours, and accelerate strategic clarity and alignment to maximise the achievement of business outcomes.

Our experienced coaches and leadership experts use key leadership themes and behaviour patterns from diagnostics to design and facilitate bespoke workshops, deep dives, and group coaching. This enables leadership teams to build essential capabilities, deepen strategic alignment, and enhance decision-making.

Expected Outcomes:

Defining roles to ensure strategic clarity and elevate enterprise impact.

Enhancing strategic prioritisation, managing trade-offs, and resolving conflicts.

Establishing trust within the leadership team and promoting clear, effective ways of working.

Transitioning from a compliance culture to one that thrives on innovation.

Identifying integration points that drive innovation and growth.

Building a robust feedback and coaching culture among leadership peers.

Exec Ascend delivered a Leadership Program across five of the La Trobe University school leadership teams as well as Leadership coaching and 360s of Exec school members. The program was very well received by the teams and resulted in leadership capability and team effectiveness uplifts. We enjoyed partnering with Lisa on this important program of work.

Robert Pike, Provost
La Trobe University, 2022

Leadership Team
Behaviour Embedment

Individual Leadership Coaching Programs

Our Individual Leadership Coaching Programs are designed to embed key leadership capabilities, behaviours, and micro habits, tailored to each leader’s role and career development. These programs ensure sustainable outcomes and maximise effectiveness, accelerating leadership impact and broader team effectiveness outcome.

We partnered with Exec Ascend to deliver a leadership development program for the ANZ payments leadership team. Following the delivery of interview based 360 feedback, Exec Ascend facilitated a series of team workshops, which included visioning and linking strategy with priority leadership behaviours. One year on we still use the outputs of this work, which has resulted in a significant uplift in both individual and team capability.

Lee Ross, Head of Technology Payments
ANZ, 2022