ELEVATE YOUR LEADERSHIP
& TEAM FOR IMPACT
Achieve your potential and make an impact in your career - with your colleagues, clients and communities.
We support talented CEOs and Senior Leaders who are ready for future growth to become self-aware, trusted and influential leaders. We take a strategic approach by starting with the end in mind and incorporating iterative, deliberate action to help you to elevate your individual, team and organisational performance.
Though a close partnership, we build self-awareness and mastery of strengths and defaults. We leverage internal and external insights into purposeful action; and help you to develop adaptive leadership capability, communications and high performing teams.
Benefits of working with us have included improvements to:
o Leadership capability, presence and performance
o Communication and credibility
o Team productivity, cohesion and performance
o Decision making and results
o Emotional regulation
o Self-awareness and confidence
o Strategic thinking and planning
o Health, wellbeing and satisfaction
o Influence and impact
Approach
A blend of coaching, advisory, planning, problem solving and sounding board, our approach is one of partnership, trust and outcomes focus. We work closely with our clients to build self and team leadership awareness, adaptability, capability and confidence in the workplace.
Drawing on experience across strategy, culture, leadership and organisational dynamics with a pragmatic and warm coaching style, we are invested in our clients' success and ensure that optimum value is gained from the program, by turning awareness into action.
Programs
Executive Partnering
Duration: 6 months
Specifically designed for SME CEOs, we navigate the challenges and opportunities of leadership together across strategy, people and culture to bring out the best in you and your people to deliver the strategy.
Executive Coaching
Duration: 6 months
For senior leaders looking for an experienced accountability partner, coach and leadership specialist to help you reach your potential and achieve greater success, satisfaction and impact in your career.
Leadership Intensive
Duration: 3 months
For leaders with specific areas of focus, such as communicating with impact, leading with confidence, or stepping into a more senior role, this program is comprised of targeted leadership coaching sessions to transform potential into performance.
Sophie Graves is a leader in the space of organisational culture and change, utilising her extensive experience in organisational psychology and leadership to deliver an engaging and customer focused approach that shifts thinking and behaviours.
Sophie has a unique skill of understanding the business and issue at hand, adapting a solution that meets the brief and reasonates with the people. Sophie has provided support over many years as a mentor, coach, facilitator and consultant across the space of leadership, culture and team performance. Sophie's expertise and insight has provided both personal and professional development for me personally, as well as adding significant benefit to the organisations she partners with.
Kaylene Jacques, GM People & Culture, Heart Foundation
Coaching Testimonials
2020 brought with it a number of extreme challenges for me professionally. The onset of COVID and a new reporting line presented some new, unique and frustrating changes that needed to be navigated. With Sophies help and guidance, I was able to focus on the things that I could influence or control, and not worry about the things that I couldn’t. As such, I have emerged from 2020 as a better leader. I am more patient, more calm and more confident in my own abilities, and have been able to give my team more autonomy to do their job, and do it well. Sophie has helped me see things from different perspectives, challenged me on my though process and helped me see the leader inside that I couldn’t see. This year Sophie has been the physiotherapy for my brain that I needed, and has helped me realise that you don’t need to be across every detail, but trust in yourself and the people around you to do a good job. I believe Sophie has helped prepare me for the next step in my career and I would highly recommend her to anyone looking to take the next step in their leadership career.
Daniel Head, Head of Operations, Transdev
I have had the great fortune of undertaking coaching sessions with Sophie Graves which have been immeasurably beneficial to my professional and personal life. Amazingly, I felt my understanding of myself, my motivators and barriers and my ‘personal power’ had significantly increased even after just one session. Sophie’s approach is supportive, pragmatic and insightful, and Sophie has a knack for striking the right balance of challenging you to step outside your comfort zone while also being your cheer squad (or, more importantly encouraging you to become your own cheer squad!). As part of coaching, Sophie provides practical ‘homework’ to complement the discussions undertaken during the sessions. This means that the benefit of learning goes beyond the confines of the session – and allows you to apply the learning in real time. Sophie is an enthusiastic and effective champion for women reaching their full potential and owning their strengths and expertise and my short time with Sophie has taken me from feeling very nervous about speaking up at high level meetings to presenting on stage to approx. 500 people! Engaging Sophie has, by far, been the best investment I could make in my career.
Sarah McPherson, Manager - Program Performance & Impact
I have worked with Sophie in her capacity as a facilitator and a coach over the past few years. As a facilitator of leadership workshops, I have always found her style to be open, calm, clear and engaging. She is always well prepared and although not forceful with the group, has an amazing ability to 'round up the troops' to achieve some definitive actions and agreed next steps before the end of the session! As a coach, I have valued Sophie's advice and capacity to understand my needs and areas of focus and then work with me to clarify key goals and priority actions to achieve these. She is always very responsive, meets face to face and provides me with relevant literature or tools that relate to the area that I am working to improve. I really enjoy and respond to Sophie's clear, calm and authentic style and through my experience. would highly recommend her to anyone looking for a facilitator or a coach.
Kellie-Ann Jolly, CEO Victoria, The Heart Foundation
Sophie was engaged as an Executive Coach to assist me in developing my leadership skills and working through my career options. Sophie’s style is warm, empathetic and genuine and she has a great ability to guide the conversation so that you develop your own insights and actions rather than assuming she has all the answers. Sophie really helped me focus on what was important to me as a leader, expanded my thinking around career opportunities and helped me identify opportunities for personal development. I would recommend Sophie as an experienced and excellent coach for anyone seeking career guidance, or wanting to further develop themselves personally and professionally.
Tania Turnbull, Marketing Director, ANZ
From not knowing where to start with a major project I had undertaken to now being able to slowly move through my milestones and establish a clear direction for where I am going, Sophie has been instrumental in the development of my ideas and professional skills. Not only has she helped progress the idea but has provided me with lots of tools and strategies to take beyond the current project into other areas of my work. She has a very positive attitude and after a coaching session, I always feel a lot better about any issues/roadblocks that are standing in my way - It has been a very enjoyable experience working with Sophie.
Tabitha Carr, Marketing Specialist, Mercedes-Benz Truck and Bus
Sophie has been my Executive Coach over the past two years. Sophie guided me through the hardest time (so far) in my professional life and I came out at the other end feeling more self-aware, resilient and empowered as a leader. Sophie is extremely intelligent and knowledgeable and connects with people in the most compassionate and empathetic way. I enjoyed and treasured every session I had with her. I strongly recommend Sophie to anyone who is looking to advance their leadership capabilities, expand their career opportunities, and/or just want to talk to someone about their professional or personal struggles.
Emma Siqin, Manager, Renewable Energy Policy, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action