ASX listed company

Our client – a global ASX listed company – experienced rapid growth through acquisition. It’s top tier leaders were geographically dispersed across Australia and the United States. While systems and processes were integrated into a cohesive whole, leaders continued to operate in silos. Key to the successful implementation of a new strategy to ‘win in every market’ was the move towards more collaboration across the global business.

70 of the company’s top leadership team members converged in Melbourne for a 3-day leadership conference called ‘Stronger Together”. The Global CEO engaged SMG to design and plan this leadership event and the subsequent plan to drive collaboration across the business.

The 3-day leadership conference served as a launch-pad for the ongoing development work. It became clear that a critical success factor for the formation of a culture of collaboration was ownership and accountability driven from the top. As a result, SMG designed the various elements of the leadership conference and then coached the executive to deliver them. The delegates left the conference as empowered and aligned advocates of a culture of collaboration.

Over the course of the year, SMG worked closely with the executive to ensure the implementation of the action plan formulated at the conference, including the co-creation and dissemination of a bespoke leadership development framework centred around collaboration.