Talent

Accelerating the growth of exceptional and diverse talent through evidence-based assessment and targeted development

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In a skills-first era, identifying, developing, mobilising and retaining exceptional talent is critical. We take a scientific evidence-based, inclusive and transparent approach to talent assessment and development. This involves defining your future talent requirements, building clear evaluation criteria that manages bias, and adopting leading practice assessment methodologies.

We work with you to build evidence-based talent development experiences that are aligned to your vision, your leadership framework, reflect current research, and are tailored to the specific development needs of the talent group. Our talent development solutions are designed to stretch, build advocacy, profile and capability. Through formal and in the flow of work experiences, we deliver significant results with 50% of participants achieving a promotion, significant stretch opportunity or role change as a result.

Talent Assessment

We take a rigorous, research-backed approach to talent assessment that goes beyond traditional methods. Using validated psychometric tools and structured methodologies, we help you identify high-potential talent, understand strengths profiles, and uncover development opportunities that align with your organisational goals.

Our assessment process is designed to disrupt the impacts of bias and maximise insight, providing you with reliable data to inform strategic talent decisions. We partner with you to interpret results meaningfully and translate insights into actionable development plans

Talent Development

We create targeted talent development interventions that accelerate growth and prepare people for their next career step. Our development approach blends experiential learning, coaching, heat experiences and real-world application to accelerate development.

Our talent development solutions are designed to build both the capability and confidence needed for success, with particular expertise in sponsorship initiatives, high potential programs, senior leader acceleration, women’s leadership, and executive readiness.

Our key offerings

Sponsorship for underrepresented talent

Sponsorship is a proven tool for nurturing career progression that meets both the business needs and individuals’ preferences. This leads to long-term retention of key talent, a robust diverse talent pool for succession planning and ultimately improved business outcomes. Our comprehensive sponsorship program disrupts unconscious and systemic bias that hinders progression of diverse talent. Our approach is twofold: (1) we cultivate inclusive leadership skills in sponsors (2) while empowering sponsees to confidently enhancing their visibility, networks, and strategic expertise all to advance their careers.

Low-touch Career development for underrepresented talent

Shorter, sharper and scalable career development solutions that empower diverse talent take ownership of their growth and gain career clarity. Our solutions develop the skills, mindsets, and networks needed to build the confidence to advocate for themselves, articulate their unique strengths and take the opportunities to grow and progress as they arise. This drives career mobility in environments where there may be limited horizontal opportunities for progression, however you’d like to invest in the development and retention of key groups.

Women's leadership and talent development

We deeply understand the cultural and structural barriers that can impact women progressing through different leadership stages. From an intersectionality perspective, we understand that no two women are the same and that many women also fall into other under-represented groups, which may present additional barriers.

Our structured solutions focus on overcoming systemic barriers, enlisting the support and advocacy of senior leaders and the participants’ people leaders. We create safe spaces for each cohort to openly discuss and navigate challenges, for both participants and their leaders. We support talented women to establish a community that works together to raise their visibility and profile, resulting in increased retention, career mobility and promotion rates.

Executive / Senior Leader readiness

We support you to identify and assess high-potential leaders for acceleration into senior leader / executive roles, through highly personalised development interventions. Our approach focuses on aligning assessment of performance and potential to your expectations and aspirations for your leaders, building strategic capability, executive presence, and the psychological foundations needed for senior leadership success.

Proven organisational outcomes we deliver

Dramatically shortened leadership succession timelines

Breakthough increases in diverse talent retention and advancement

Significant reduction in executive recruitment costs

Enhanced decision-making through data-driven talent insights

Measurable improvement in leadership bench strength and capability

Client success stories

Australia Post ProjectME

Defence-Aurecon Ascend

Explore the challenges we’ve helped our clients solve, the tailored solutions we’ve provided, and the impactful results we've helped them to achieve through our client success stories.