Meet the Team
Alex Smith
Executive educator, coach and facilitator specialising in system intelligent leadership development, executive team dynamics and creating powerful and robust organisational cultures.
Working with Clients in Public Service, Not for Profits, Sport, Retail, Manufacturing and Professional Services.
My approach is to be courageous, inspiring, intuitive, disarmingly challenging and fun. In essence, I bring both power and love to my work.
I work best with leaders who are curious about their own development and who want something different for themselves and their organisitions.
Specialities:
Executive, Leadership coaching
Leadership development & Leadership Team effectiveness.
Systems Thinking and System Intelligent leadership
building robust, productive and healthy human systems.
Current and recent clients include:
Fonterra / NZ Inland Revenue / Crown Law / MFAT / Ministry of Education / Callaghan Innovation / Kainga Ora / Ministry of Justice / Norwood / St John NZ / Outward Bound Trust / TSB
Industry Experiences
2006 to date. Independent Coach and Executive Educator
1996 – 2006 PwC UK - Senior Manager Learning and Development
1991– 1996 Sedgwick Group - HR Business Partner
1989 – 1991 Banque Indosuez - Personnel Manager
1987 – 1989 Badenoch and Clark - Recruitment consultant
1986 – 1987 BDO Binder Hamlyn -Trainee Accountant
Accreditations:
ICF accredited professional Executive Coach.
The Leadership Circle. Individual and team assessments of Leadership capability and Culture.
The Organisational Workshop and When Cultures Meet workshop from Power and Systems inc.
The Fearless Organisation Scan – Diagnostic of Psychological Safety in teams based on the work of Professor Amy Edmondson.
Structural Dynamics individual and team profiling – Kantor.
Digby Scott
I thought I could only have one or the other –
Be the REBEL – the untamed lone wolf, true to myself, an individual thinker so I could buck the system or;
Be the PREFECT – be responsible, agree to the rules of the game, be a team player and become part of the system so I could influence it.
What I’ve learned is that fusing our inner rebel and inner prefect together is what creates effective, adaptable change-agents who are able not just respond to change, but to create it.
Over the last 20 years I’ve seen how deliberately cultivating an adaptable nature from these two fused parts has completely transformed my restless go-getting clients allowing them to make their mark and contribute to a better world.
We get to choose our futures. Do we shrink back and play it safe, or do we learn how to adapt, lean in to discomfort and rise above, paving the way for others to do the same?
Whatever it is for you, I’m ready to partner with you and show you how to fuse your inner rebel and prefect together, how to ride the waves and how to make the difference you want to make.
“I really got a huge amount of benefit out of the programme. Lots of little defining moments. The connection of this group is unbelievable. I just can’t believe it; seems in five minutes we connected in a way that I’ve been working with people 20-something years and I hadn’t.”
Jonathan Rodgers, Director Escalations & Advising at Inland Revenue“I want to thank you and Alex for sharing your energy, wisdom and insights so openly—and for gently prodding me out of my comfort zone and world of perfect control and risk avoidance! I’m excited and grateful.”
Tiffany Scott, Manager Branch Development and Support at Department of Internal Affairs