Leadership Development

High-Performing Teams

Have 3 Core Components

Self-Awareness + Social Perception + Shared Structures

What Would Be Your Rating?

01. Self-Awareness

Can you definitively answer these statements?

  • The three values that underpin my decisions are:

  • I disappoint myself through:

  • Other people get annoyed by my approach to:

  • I’m unknowingly unrecognised for:

02. Social Perception

As a collective entity, you’d rate your team 8/10+ on:

  • Knowing and understanding what intrinsically motivates each team member?

  • Understanding the complimentary attributes of each team member?

  • Empathetic candour + radical transparency?

03. Shared Structures

There is shared consensus on these 4 attributes:

Direction: defined shared objectives aligned with overall strategy

Relationships: interpersonal bonds built exclusively on mutual trust and support

Routines: communication and meeting cadence and format, recognition and rewards

Frameworks: structural boundaries, procedures and decision-making processes.

How I Help Teams

Understand team members’ intrinsic motivation through Enneagram assessments & workshops.

Identify and overcome Leadership Blindspots through shared objectives, effective communication cadence, structural frameworks, and decision-making.

Read More About The Enneagram Here

Create high-impact plans that design and sustain innovative, high-performing cultures.

Unlock Leadership Brilliance

I’ve been CEO twice and spent over a decade coaching leaders. I use this experience to explore the real questions sitting beneath leadership challenges.

Workshops offer a change in how leaders and teams understand themselves, and what then becomes possible.

From unpacking limiting beliefs, elevating communication culture, to coaching leaders live and stretching levels of organisation consciousness, I deliver perspectives that are actionable, honest, and human. 

Leadership Workshops

‘The thing that I valued most was Fay’s ability to read people and the room. She didn’t push consensus. She guided us - over sometimes rocky terrain - toward understanding our differences, valuing them, and distilling shared purpose within them.’

Popular Workshop Topics

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    High achievers don't burn out from working too hard.

    They burn out from performing too consistently. Proving, perfecting, pushing through. The same qualities that drove them to the top of their field become, at a certain point, the thing that is quietly working against them. Judgment gets cloudy. Decisions slow. Zest that once felt limitless starts to feel rationed.

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    The thing that limits a leader's impact is seldom what they can already see.

    It is a belief - formed long before the current role, running quietly beneath the surface - about who we are and what they we’re capable of. It shapes decisions. It governs behaviour. It sets the ceiling. And because it operates beneath conscious awareness, most of us can’t name it.

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    This is impossible to manufacture. But, powerfully propelling to understand.

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    The most compelling thing you can bring into any room is a clear conviction of who you are. This session is about finding it.

  • How coaching thinking turns good leaders into ones who make everyone around them better.

    Coaching is a way of thinking - about people, potential, strategy, and purpose - that the most effective leaders have always done naturally.

    This session makes it intentional.

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    Leaders who deploy these precision tools build dynamic, innovative, high-performing teams.

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  • Live coaching. Real leaders. No script. Fay works with them live to find the question beneath the challenge.

    Usually, there is a different challenge beneath the initial presenting one. In the room, at the moment this becomes visible, something is illuminated for the person being coached and everyone else.

    This session is not comfortable. It is not supposed to be. It is, without exception, the one people talk about afterwards.

Keynotes, workshops, and fireside chat formats available.