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Scaling Leadership

Building leaders’ capacity and capability to rise on their:

  • Relevance to others

  • Relationship with others

  • Results through others

The Scaling Leadership Program enables current and emerging leaders to become more of their best and lead with greater fulfilment and impact.

Team Better Together

Making a culture of teamwork, the organisation’s most competitive advantage.

"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team."

Phil Jackson

The Team Better Together Program helps teams transition to become more high performing, collaborative teams and achieve what no individual or group, can.

Our research shows

  • 80%

    of teams flounder more than flourish

  • 70%

    of teams claim there’s a lack of trust

  • 65%

    of teams operate more as a group than a team

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To have integrity

Integrity, rightly so, is held to be a virtue of great leaders. But what does the word mean? It originated from the Latin word, integra which means ‘whole or complete’.

Who are you as a leader?

John Maxwell, a renowned leadership expert, once said, “a leader is one who is most like themselves.”  Having reflected, ask yourself, ‘so, who am I as a leader?’

Three sources of leadership: claim it, grant it, own it.

I’ve come to recognise that leadership in teams is more organic and less ordained. There are three sources to the organic leadership in teams; it is either claimed, granted or owned.

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Bernard Desmidt

With over 25 years global experience as a leadership coach, facilitator, and trainer, I work with CEO’s, Managing Directors, executives, and their teams to change their culture through facilitating lasting, positive behavioural change.

As a leadership team coach, I help leadership teams transition to become more high performing, collaborative teams and achieve the greatest things possible.

Through the flagship Scaling Leadership Program, I help organisations create a high performing culture where leaders rise on their relevance to others, their relationships with others, and their results through others.

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Our Clients

What Clients have to say

  • “I credit Bernard with helping us transform our business from a “good” company to a “great” company – he has helped us to understand where we are as a leadership team and what we need to do to take us from a functional team to a flourishing leadership team.”

    Diego Ascani (CEO - Sedgwick Australia)

  • “Bernard has helped us mould a newly formed, first-class, group of individuals into a seamless leadership team, collectively accountable for decision-making and speedier cross functional working in a high growth business.”

    Jane McNally (CEO - Camilla)

  • “The greatest and unique aspect that Bernard bought to the program – that I have rarely seen in any other facilitator – is his ability to enable people to think, feel and speak freely without fear of repercussion.”

    Sean Dempsey (CEO - Plan Partners)

  • “Bernard has both an engaging and challenging facilitating style which encourages thinking and discussion. Our leaders are bright smart people and I knew they needed someone who had a strong presence, whose material was thought provoking and up-to-date and who could move our leaders forward on their leadership journey…”

    Linda Smith (Manager – People & Culture, ISPT)

  • "If you have done many leadership workshops, but are looking for true change Scaling Leadership would be my choice. Bernard invites you to commence a journey of self discovery through relevant pre-work, contemporary industry cases and insightful monthly modules. What I valued most about Bernard was his ability to encourage leaders of all levels to be their best self without judgment, and providing frameworks to support their quest for great work after the course was completed. ...”

    Elise Karadjian (Head of Retail - Camilla)

  • “Bernard has helped us, as the leadership team, to understand and commit to teaming better together – Bernard helped us create a safe space to discuss the undiscussables through developing a culture of openness and trust with a clear team purpose and values.”

    Karen McGoldrick (VP and MD - Invisalign Australia)

  • “The challenge for us was that we were a team of individuals. Bernard has helped us to adapt our approach to achieve as a team to reach the next level of results.”

    Toby Long (GM NSW Residential
     – Mirvac)