About Us
Meet the Leadership Team
Joseph Hewes
Founder
Joseph takes a scientist-practitioner approach to leadership development and supports organisations in defining critical leadership capabilities for the future. Joseph does this by combining world class psychometrics and assessment data to target development opportunities. This provides C-suites high quality benchmarking and succession data points that considers complex leadership behaviour - including, individual behaviour and team level behaviour.
Saira Chaudry, PCC
Leadership and Executive Coach
Saira works with senior individuals to identify behavioural factors affecting their performance in relation to the organisation’s strategy and operational performance. Her experience spans multiple sectors with a focus on Finance and Tech, and organisations ranging from start ups to multi-nationals. Saira holds an International Coaching Federation PCC (Professional Certified Coach), that fulfils the highest quality standards set by the coaching profession.
Principal Consultant
David Harper, MBA
David is a skilled business executive with a proven record in both domestic and international markets, he has extensive consulting, advisory, and leadership experience, with expertise in business and operations management, as well as leadership development, executive coaching, and organisational change. David is a master trainer for the Leadership Versatility Index. David has worked individually with more than 600 leaders, coaches, and consultants worldwide, helping each analyse and interpret the Leadership Versatility Index.
Specialities
Scaling Effective Teamwork, Scaling Coachability and Developing Stronger Feedback Cultures. Team Assessments. Coachability Assessments.
Specialities
Executive Coaching, Senior Leadership Development and Assessment. Hogan Assessments, 360-Degree Feedback Assessment.
Specialities
Executive Coaching, Organisational Change, Hogan Assessments and the Leadership Versatility Index.
Meet the Global Partners
Gordon Curphy, PhD
Global Partner: Team Effectiveness
Gordy Curphy helps C-suite, business unit, and functional leaders develop business strategies; implement major change initiatives; hire, develop, and promote leadership talent; and build high performing teams. Gordy has spent the past 30+ years researching, teaching, and providing consulting on leadership. He has written 25 books, many articles, and book chapters, and sold over 100,000 copies of the no.1 selling textbook Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience (11th Ed.). He is also the lead architect of The Rocket Model™.
Dianne Nilsen, PhD
Global Partner: Team Effectiveness
Dianne is passionate about helping her clients achieve business objectives through stronger leadership talent and aligned organisational cultures. Her Ph.D. in psychology is grounded by her first-hand experience leading businesses through significant change, including organisational restructuring, strategic outsourcing, global technology implementations, divestitures, and new product introductions.
Dianne has been recognized for being innovative, practical, and results driven. Dianne led the research behind four commercially published assessments, including the Centre for Creative Leadership’s Benchmarks for Executives, a 360-feedback tool specifically designed for executive leaders.
Jake Weiss, PhD
Global Partner: Coachability
Jake is a global expert in the coachability space. Jake earned his Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, where he specialized in the areas of coachability, coaching, and organizational culture. Through his innovative research, he is the first to establish the construct of “employee coachability” in management science literature. Jake has worked on NASA-funded grants in the high-performance team space and led coaching and coachability initiatives for Fortune 100 and 500 companies at Inteflex, Inc.
Specialities
Executive Assessment, Executive Coaching, Executive Team Facilitation, Succession Planning, Managerial Derailment, Competency Modelling, 360 and Team Surveys, Leadership Development, Strategic Planning.
Specialities
Executive Assessment, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Organisational Effectiveness, Team Assessment and Coaching, Change Management, Performance Management, Competency Development, Talent Strategy & Succession Planning.
Specialities
Executive Assessment, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Organisational Effectiveness, Team Assessment and Coaching, Change Management, Performance Management, Competency Development, Talent Strategy & Succession Planning.
Marcia McDermott
Position: Global Partner: Coachability
Marcia draws from a wealth of experience as a coach and executive, from college to professional levels of soccer and work as a management consultant. Among her career highlights, Marcia coached Carolina in the first professional league, leading her team to a WUSA championship. Later she served on the technical staff of the US Women’s National Team (USWNT) in two Olympic Games and at the 2011 World Cup. Marcia has also worked extensively in the business and leadership side of sports. Recently she earned an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accreditation in Business and Professional Coaching.
Specialities
Coachability, Coachability Programmes, Building Stronger Feedback Cultures, Team Facilitation, Coaching and Organisational Change.