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Our ecosystem of leadership experts are galvanised by one purpose: To move minds and transform businesses and leave a legacy of proven value. As a team that is drawn from different backgrounds, including psychologists, strategy and commercial advisors, culture specialists and performance experts, we turn beliefs into a movement, transforming organisations and the leaders within.

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FROM CASTLES TO KINGDOMS – AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER COFFEE

Peter Coffee has ridden the Salesforce wave with his insights making him a world-renowned technologist, author, speaker and technical evangelist. Offering wide-ranging insights into how AI, big data, cloud computing and innovation practices transform industries and lives, Maximus spent a mind opening hour with him – we’ve captured our favourite insights here.

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The Great Reframe

Welcome to The Great Reframe where we leave crisis behind. We believe humans were made to flourish – not resign – and now is the time to unlock potential at scale. Join us as we explore innovative ways to unlock potential and positivity across your organisation and beyond. What will you unlock?

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Leading With Purpose with Ronni Kahn, Founder & CEO, OzHarvest

Driven by a determination to find true purpose, Ronni Kahn founded OzHarvest in 2004 with the intent to rescue and redistribute the surplus 125 tonnes of food that Australia bins each week. Now Ronni Kahn inspires other leaders to do the same; connect their head and their heart to make a difference in their life.

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M Magazine 07 – 20 Years of Impact

Celebrating 20 years of leadership impact, this special edition of M Magazine reflects on some of our most inspiring stories from two decades of partnering with bold, purpose-driven leaders and organisations.

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The Great Reframe: What’s your 2022 Unlock?

This year, as distinct from any previous New Year, requires a radical rethink. Whilst I’m sure you have been in review and are already making some resolutions, it’s a different style of radical reframe that I am talking about. Despite everything going on around us, it’s time to boldly shift gears, to unlock potential with a new approach, to think differently and leave the current state of crisis behind.

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Growth & Optimism with Alison Simpson

November 2021 marks 20 years since the founding of our firm. To celebrate this milestone, we commissioned a unique artwork by Indigenous artist Alison Simpson to represent the impact we have had with leaders illustrating how their impact ripples across organisations, communities and society more broadly. Alison explains the thinking behind her painting.

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Pursuing the Unreasonable

Founding Maximus was Vanessa Gavan’s ‘unreasonable ambition’. Two decades on, she shares some of the wisdom she’s uncovered in herself and others as she and her team have helped leaders to discover their own purpose – and act on it.

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Leadership for Life

Brent Duffy, Joint Managing Director of Maximus shares his perspective on why leadership is not a choice and why conviction and clarity are such key qualities for great leaders.

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Inspiring Courage

Charmaine England, Area Managing Director for Northern Europe at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health, has been blazing a trail of ambidextrous leadership for more than 15 years. Her career has taken her from Melbourne to Sydney and all over Asia. Now the Australian female leader is lighting a new flame in the UK. Maximus, talks to England about her learnings along the way…

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Data-driven Impact

Amir Haramaty embodies the entrepreneurial spirit and brings unconventional data insights to every industry context. The world’s biggest problems? Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the masses? He forges an innovative way forward…

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What Lies Within

She joined Maximus from Telstra where she’d made a name for herself as a technologist and futurist, but for a time KB (as she’s known) says she was blocking her own potential. Now, her quest is to unlock it for others.

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Activating A Brighter Future

He’s worked at the zoo for almost 22 years, but even as CEO of Taronga, Cameron Kerr AO, has the zeal of a person who’s only just joined this inspiring organisation. Through his association with us here at Maximus, Kerr has resolved that leadership is not about resting on your laurels – for the people around him, the animal kingdom and the environment he serves…

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Making A Difference

Janette Kendall has carved out a brilliant, original and varied career, all the while staying true to her strong conviction and her natural instincts to pay her success forward.

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Forging A Path With Conviction

The relationship from client to collaborator is a unique one, however that has been the evolution for Maximus and executive Emma Hogan, Secretary for Digital and NSW Department of Customer Service. Hogan speaks to Maximus about the courage that move took, and how it led to her leading a team who were critical during the greatest public health crisis of our lifetime.

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The Expedition: Part 2

Maximus Directors spend a mind-opening hour with Peter Coffee, VP for Strategic Research at Salesforce, exploring how Salesforce built a customer-obsessive culture and scaled a Founder’s Mindset as they grew from a start-up to a global enterprise with over 50,000 employees. We dive deep into the world of exponential change, technology, AI, and explore how the pandemic has brought technology trends forward by 5 years.

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The Expedition: Part 1

Expand your horizons, gain strategic foresight, and learn vicariously through direct exposure to the world’s sharpest minds. Maximus Directors Vanessa Gavan and James Keeler are joined by Chemi Peres, one of Israel’s foremost venture capital and innovation pioneers with a portfolio of some 230 global hi-tech companies in our first taster session of The Expedition.

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