Greg Stanmore

Greg’s career spans senior executive and advisory roles across professional services, manufacturing, construction, property, financial services and the not-for-profit sector. As a result, he has worked extensively with boards, CEOs and executive teams in complex, high-accountability environments.

He was a Partner at Spencer Stuart, where he advised boards and senior leaders on leadership capability, succession planning and executive team effectiveness. Before that, Greg held several senior leadership roles at James Hardie, including General Manager Australia/New Zealand, General Manager Finance, IT & Planning, and Senior Vice President Corporate Development. In these roles, he led multi-jurisdictional operations, shaped enterprise strategy and strengthened organisational capability to support long-term growth.

One defining example of his strategic and change leadership experience was leading James Hardie’s expansion into South America, including the acquisition of a Chilean business. This required developing a clear long-term strategy, assessing strategic and operational risk, and aligning the organisation to deliver on growth ambitions.

Earlier in his career, Greg was a Manager at L.E.K. Consulting and a Project Manager at CRI Limited. These roles provided a strong foundation in structured strategic analysis, commercial evaluation and disciplined execution.

Throughout his career, boards and CEOs have engaged Greg when leadership capability, organisational design or succession was not aligned with strategy. He works with leaders to clarify the capabilities required for future success and to reshape executive teams and structures accordingly.

Greg’s coaching and mentoring approach is pragmatic and commercially grounded. Above all, it is future-focused. He works with leaders to strengthen strategic thinking and to step back from immediate pressures. In doing so, he helps them define clear, long-term organisational direction.

He supports CEOs and senior executives as they shape strategy in changing market, regulatory and organisational environments. Just as importantly, he helps them translate strategy into the structures, capabilities and leadership behaviours required for sustained success.

Change leadership is a core focus of Greg’s work. Often, strategy stalls because organisational design or leadership capability has not kept pace. Greg helps leaders identify these gaps and build the conditions needed for effective execution.

Throughout this process, he provides constructive challenge grounded in real-world experience. As a result, leaders test assumptions more rigorously, make confident decisions and lead through complexity with greater clarity and assurance.

Education & Professional Development
• MBA, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, 1994
• MMP, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, 1999
• BE (Hons), Civil Engineering, UNSW, 1986
• Unleashed Coaching Program, Meyler Campbell, Singapore, 2022
• Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors

With a passion for sport, Greg has competed in triathlons from sprint distance to Ironman and represented Australia in World Triathlon Championships. He currently serves on the board of AusTriathlon, the national governing body of triathlon in Australia and remains active in community sport and mentoring emerging leaders.