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.
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…
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…
By encouraging solution-driven thinking Benjamin Pollack sets the tone and direction for Urbis, a passion-driven property-development consultancy. Here, Pollack talks about how Maximus has helped shape that impulsion…
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.
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…
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.
Simon Hickey, CEO of Western Sydney Airport, is an architect of digital disruption. He is now applying that mindset to the development of Sydney’s new international airport.
Ronni Kahn, Founder and CEO of the world’s most compelling food rescue organisation has a leadership philosophy that begins and ends with intention…
One banking leader with cred puts doing good at the centre of his corporate growth strategy.
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.
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.
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.
If we know anything it is that things, people, the world and businesses are constantly changing, iterating and flexing. To design the future, we must let go of the past. Iterative strategy demands it and the constantly changing dynamics of leading transformation require it.
As we continue to navigate the challenges of COVID-19, we are faced with a decision point of how we respond and show up for ourselves and others. More and more we are experiencing a chronic state of languishing which dulls motivation, disrupts focus, and narrows people’s focus inward.
It’s more important than ever for leaders to elevate their humanity. To take teams successfully through digital transformation, into new kinds of jobs and truly sustainable futures.
How ready are you to lead transformation across your organisation?
Maximus’ Founder, Vanessa Gavan and Director, James Keeler are joined by guest speakers Andrew Chanmugam, Executive General Manager – Strategy & Transformation at Suncorp Group, and Danielle Mair, Acting Chief Strategy & Impact Officer at Sunsuper as we explore the changing dynamics of leading transformation.
From understanding iterative strategy, flexible IT architectures, rapid funding mechanisms, and carefully curated ecosystems of partners, we share lessons learned from working with executives and leaders at the edge.
The Australian Financial Review spoke with Maximus Founder Vanessa Gavan, and Associate Director Katherine Boiciuc, about the fundamental leadership capabilities and mindset, required to transform an organisation.
We’re leading our organisations through a period where our closest associates may be existing in a context completely different to our own. Leaders have no choice but to get comfortable with this paradox and take a more humanistic, empathic approach.
Along with the severe health and humanitarian crisis caused by the pandemic, executives around the world face enormous business challenges: the collapse of customer demand, significant regulatory modifications, supply chain interruptions, unemployment, economic recession, and increased uncertainty.
After a year of unexpected lockdowns, working from home, and dwindling motivation, many leaders feel challenged by the prospect of fostering a growth mindset within their teams.