Strategic Leadership & Executive Coaching
Leadership is highly visible, and its impact cascades throughout your entire organisation. We provide a trusted, confidential space for CEOs, executives, and senior managers to step back, gain clarity, and sharpen their strategic edge.
- Executive & Personal Coaching: Tailored 1:1 partnerships that bridge the gap between current performance and strategic potential. We focus on emotional intelligence, strategic decision-making, and modern people management.
- Board & CEO Appraisals: We provide objective, independent, and comprehensive 360-degree reviews. By gathering insights from board members, direct reports, and stakeholders, we help align leadership performance with organisational strategy and governance standards.
- Leader Wellbeing & Resilience: Using contemporary frameworks, we support leaders to manage the unique pressures of today’s fast-paced, hybrid work environments.
Emerging Leaders & Transition Programs
Transitioning from a technical specialist or a team peer into a people leader is one of the most challenging steps in a career. We support your next generation of talent to step up with confidence, protecting your culture and securing your internal succession pipeline.
- Stepping Up to Team Leadership: A practical, coaching-led program covering the essentials of management - from delegation and goal-setting to handling challenging conversations and shifting professional identity.
- The Accelerated Leadership Curve: A high-impact, cohort-based program combining group learning, guest perspectives, and individual coaching to rapidly elevate mid-level management capability.
Our Evidence-Based Toolkit
We ground all of our leadership and culture work in world-class, scientifically validated methodologies. Our Principal, Paul Murphy, brings deep, accredited expertise in translating these insights into practical workplace strategies:
- The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP): The gold standard in individual and team 360-degree feedback, measuring creative capabilities and reactive tendencies.
- Global Leadership Wellbeing Survey (GLWS): A holistic tool designed specifically to assess and improve leader wellbeing and resilience.
- Team Management Profile (TMP): A powerful tool to understand work preferences, communication styles, and how your team can collaborate more effectively.
- DISC & EQ-i 2.0: Enhancing self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and daily behavioural communication.
Strategic Leadership Evaluation
Evaluating executive performance is one of a Board or Council’s most critical responsibilities—yet achieving true objectivity can be complex. In today’s fast-paced environment, great leadership is about more than just hitting targets; it is about shaping culture, navigating change, and inspiring people.
As your strategic partner, we help you bridge the gap between high-level governance and day-to-day operational reality. We work collaboratively with Boards, Councils, and CEOs to design evaluation processes that are fair, transparent, and deeply insightful.
Looking Beyond the KPIs: A 3D View of Leadership
While traditional KPIs measure what a leader achieves, modern leadership development focuses heavily on how they achieve it.
To give you a complete picture, we look beyond the balance sheet. By gathering multi-rater (360-degree) feedback from board members, direct reports, and key external stakeholders, we deliver a holistic view of a leader's impact on your organisation's culture and strategy.
Our Curated Leadership Toolkit
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. We partner with you to select and customise the right diagnostic tools for your organisation's unique maturity and goals:
- The Leadership Circle Profile (LCP): Our premier framework of choice. It is a world-class, contemporary tool that maps creative leadership capabilities against reactive tendencies, linking leadership profile directly to business performance.
- Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i 2.0): Ideal for assessing the self-awareness, empathy, and relationship-building skills vital for modern, people-first leaders.
- Customised Values & KPI Reviews: Bespoke, online evaluations designed by us to align precisely with your strategic plan, regional context, and organisational values.
Insights that Drive Growth
The result of our partnership isn't just a report; it’s a roadmap. We deliver clear, benchmarked insights that remove the guesswork from succession planning and executive development. Together, we translate these insights into supportive, actionable growth plans that set your leaders—and your organisation—up for long-term success.
Ready to elevate your leadership performance? Let’s start a conversation.
Individual Coaching: Elevating capability & performance
At every stage of the professional journey, having a dedicated partner to navigate growth is invaluable. We work collaboratively alongside your people to bridge the gap between current performance and future potential, aligning individual development with your broader organisational strategy.
Why Coaching?
Today’s workplace demands agility, strong emotional intelligence, and resilient leadership. Whether your people are navigating a promotion, leading through organisational change, or looking to unlock the next level of capability, our coaching provides a trusted space to pause, reflect, and reset.
We help co-create actionable strategies that turn complex workplace challenges into clear paths forward.
A Tailored, Evidence-Based Approach
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all. Our coaching is highly bespoke and outcome-focused. We blend contemporary HR perspectives with practical, real-world application, utilising modern diagnostic tools—including Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and personality profiling—to identify key leverage points for sustainable growth.
Impact That Goes Beyond the Individual
The best coaching delivers mutual value. By connecting personal growth directly to your business goals, we help individuals thrive while driving your organisation's culture, capability, and strategic objectives forward. It is a powerful, collaborative investment in your people.
What Our Partners Say...
"I sincerely thank you for your professionalism, balanced views, and calm perspective. Your knowledge and insights in assisting the sub-committee with the CEO appraisal and KPI process were invaluable."
Cr Mary Lalios, Councillor, City of Whittlesea (former Chair, Yarra Plenty Regional Library Board)
Let's get you results like this...
“The results to date have not only met our expectations of the program, but also exceeded them. In the early stages following, we’ve already improved individual management performance, and we have a significantly improved leadership team ... it’s already become a team that works more effectively together, focused around a vision and our key common goals”. CEO
"Atwork Consulting's performance coaching techniques have been of great assistance to my team. This has been invaluable in the way Paul has provided coaching to a staff member who was under-performing. His work clarified the development goals to the staff member and guided them through the 'performance warning' process. Senior Manager, Local Govt Sector
"Paul's coaching has improved my own understanding and built my capacity to motivate others to perform. The ability to share staffing matters on a confidential basis and gain meaningful advice has been highly valuable and a significant component in achieving high performance from my team." Director, Local Govt
“Recently the organisation I was working for decided on some internal changes that changed my job substantially....In order to think clearly about the impacts of this change on my career, and to explore the less obvious possibilities that might exist, I spoke with Paul. Over a couple of meetings and completing some useful tools to gauge my emotional intelligence and career interests Paul helped me look at this change with fresh perspective. I was able to work through a difficult time with genuine comfort and make hard decisions to change careers at age 42 with relative ease. The result for me was to move from senior management in the public service to a small dynamic company. My new career is much better aligned to my interests and skills and is locally based with much less travel. In hindsight it almost seems surreal how little stress was involved in deciding to make a major career change. The key factor for me was having someone to help me to think clearly about what I really desired to make more informed choices. Paul made it a thoroughly enjoyable experience and I can recommend it to anyone”. General Manager, Consulting/Development Business.
“Paul coached me regarding my work experiences; made me aware of personal growth and achievements in my working life and used these attributes when preparing my resume....Ultimately I achieved a wonderful new role. I have no hesitation in recommending Atwork Consulting. Senior Manager, Health & Community Services.