Emerging leaders and teams, needed now

I work with executives and their teams so they rise on the fulfilment of their working relationships and the impact of their actions and results.

Scaling Leadership Program

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

The program focuses on building leaders’ capacity and capability to rise in three key areas:

Relevance to others: Inspiring and being inspired with purpose.
Relationship with others: Rising through the quality of meaningful working relationships.
Results through others: Achieving great work by securing others' cooperation and commitment.

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Team Better Together Program

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

By fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and shared purpose, this program makes teamwork your organisation’s ultimate competitive advantage.

As Phil Jackson wisely said,

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

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Meet 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.

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

Our Clients

What our 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)