Leadership & business, on purpose

I envision a world where everyone is living full of purpose and in their calling; bringing what they were born to bring in full, burning brightly.

A bit about me & my work

I am passionate about the power of purpose in fueling organisational success and creating leadership impact.

For me, infusing purpose into leadership and business is like jet fuel for success.

Almost nothing will accelerate engagement, productivity, innovation, growth, impact and fulfilment like leaders and businesses operating on purpose.

What I do:

  • Run programs, and coach teams and individuals to make this a reality
  • Speak professionally about purpose to inspire possibility and seed the vision of what purpose can do for your business and for your leadership
  • Work with teams and organisations to facilitate agility and high performance

You can think of me like a wayfinder for purpose and agility in business, leadership and life.

I hold numerous industry credentials in business and leadership and bring the latest thinking to bear in practice across such fields as psychology, motivation science, neuroscience, relationship systems intelligence and philosophy.

If you’d like to work together, please get in touch.

Previous & Current Clients

Accomplished Facilitator

Glenn has a real passion for developing an agile culture and mindset and is a really accomplished facilitator.. I have no hesitation in recommending him.

Pieter Bakker
Chief Information Officer

Top Echelon of Facilitators

I would put Glenn in the top echelon of facilitators. His expertise and agility in facilitating is extremely effective. I have no hesitation recommending him.

Brad Erceg
Sales Director

A Professional and a Personal Approach

Glenn has an impressive energy and ability to effectively connect with people, combining both a professional and a personal approach.. Excellent to work with and very capable in his area.

Barbara Ciancio
Value Stream Manager - Supply Chain

An Absolute Pleasure to Work With

Glenn is that rare breed that gets the big picture and also delivers when it comes to detail… an absolute pleasure to work with.

Jane Gwynne
Digital & Marcomms Specialist

A Gifted Facilitator

Glenn is a skilled and experienced agile leader and a gifted facilitator.. I will be engaging with him for future work and I would encourage others to do the same.

Tom Atkinson
Agile Project Manager

Uncanny Ability to Connect with Anyone

Glenn has an uncanny ability to connect with anyone at any level, making him an exceptional facilitator and leader. I’ve really enjoying working with him and hope to work together again in the future!

Gavin Sharkey
Head of Technology & Operations

Leadership Calling: How to Work, Live & Lead on Purpose

Publishing in 2024, Leadership Calling is a how-to for purpose in work, life and leadership.

For individual leaders, it serves as a guide for how to find your purpose and live it out; and how to connect your purpose into the work you do every day. As a result of applying the Leadership Calling program you will find deeper meaning in every day life and greater impact in everything you put your hand to. It will bring a distinction in your leadership that wasn't previously accessible and an energy that sets you apart. You will find yourself more adept at maintaining balance and wellbeing, and delivering results with greater ease in the midst of high pressure and rapidly changing priorities.

For business, divisional and departmental leaders, applying the research-based program to your team will increase your ability to meet business goals and make you shine as a leader of leaders. It does this by creating intrinsically-driven employee engagement, boosting productivity through creativity and working smarter, and attracting the best people who want to stay because they find meaning in their work.

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Programs & Offerings

Leadership Calling Program

Based on the book Leadership Calling, this program will take leaders on a journey of discovering their individual purpose, finding deeper meaning and becoming more impactful in everything they put their hand to. It will enable them to create and live-out a legacy sourced in purpose across work, life and leadership.

Key elements and expected outcomes of the program can be found here.

Individual Purpose Program

This program will lead individuals through a process of discovery that uncovers and reveals individual purpose in a profound and powerful way. In addition to that, participants will connect their purpose to the work that they do and the life that they live everyday.

Now more than ever, especially as Covid becomes a memory, we are experiencing a "crisis of meaning". We need our life and our work to have underlying purpose and to be meaningful. Research done over the last few decades shows us that there is one underlying key to longer, healthier, happier, more fulfilling and more productive lives: Purpose.

The Individual Purpose Program can be done in a 1:1 or group setting and takes place across 4 weeks.

Organisational Purpose Program

The Organisational Purpose Program takes an organisation and its leaders through a facilitated 3-month journey of discovery that culminates in a clear organisational purpose, woven into organisational strategy and goals.

Research shows that when a business is clear on and lives by its purpose it is more profitable, more productive, more innovative, more competitive, grows faster, attracts and keeps the best talent, and has the highest employee engagement rates.

Purpose is like jet-fuel to organisational success. Organisations on the ASX100 with a purpose-driven, engaged culture performed 2-4x better than the index average (We Are Unity Analytics, May 2021).

Download my latest whitepaper here.

Delivery Capability Review

Full assessment and associated recommendations across your end-to-end project or product delivery. This review suits any mix of traditional, agile, plan-driven, change-driven, adaptive or "homegrown" project and product delivery models.

This is a thorough review, covering people, culture, process, practices, systems and tools. The people and culture aspect of the review includes a research-based psychological safety assessment as well as an employee NPS score.

The review is conducted across 6 weeks.

Delivery Uplift Program

The Delivery Uplift Program delivers an uplift in current project or product delivery capability to align with global best practices across people, culture, process, practices, systems and tools. It brings in the best of both traditional plan-driven approaches as well as modern change-driven (agile and adaptive) delivery approaches, building a delivery model that is simultaneously safe, innovative, agile and adaptive.

The uplift program runs in increments of 3 months. Each increment acts as a "change release", improving and building capability into the end-to-end project or product delivery model.

Adaptive Delivery Training

Learn the skills, techniques, tools and mindsets needed to manage work using an agile and adaptive approach. Participants will come away with a full adaptive delivery management toolkit, as well as a playbook which can be used as a reference and continued guide. The training program is designed for those leading or working in a project, product or delivery context who seek to work in a more adaptive way.

Facilitated fully online over 8 weeks in 2-hour increments, optimising learning and practical application of knowledge while also enabling participants to genuinely work the course around their schedule. Slides and lecture are kept to a minimum. Group work, case studies, activities, games and exercises that teach and communicate the learning in an engaging and interactive way are the focus. This course is accredited with ICAgile. Upon successful completion, participants receive the ICP-APM certification.

Founder & Managing Director

I am the Founder and Managing Director of the Centre for Leadership Agility, a training organisation serving New Zealand and Australia.

Our mission is to provide powerful training experiences that catalyse agile leadership and grow native business agility.

Visit us online here.

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