Complex change requires more than a good plan
Strategy, structure, culture and leadership are deeply connected. When they become misaligned, execution slows, accountabilities blur and people lose confidence in the direction of change.
Maximise brings senior consulting, facilitation and executive coaching to help leaders understand the real issue, make clear choices and mobilise people around a viable way forward.
We work collaboratively, using participative processes that build ownership, strengthen internal capability and support lasting implementation.
When clients engage Maximise
Leaders typically contact us when an important organisational issue cannot be resolved through business-as-usual processes alone.
Strategy is clear, but leadership alignment or execution is fragmented.
Growth or change has outpaced the organisation’s structure and accountabilities.
Operating-model change requires independent diagnosis.
An executive team needs to reset relationships, priorities or ways of working.
A senior leader is moving into a role with greater scope or complexity.
Leadership development is not producing sustained behaviour change.
Explore our services
Strategic alignment
Put simply, a strategy is an organisation working out where it is, where it wants to be, and what it needs to do to get there. Periodically CEOs, MDs and business unit heads must step back and make time to plan the long-term growth and future position of the enterprise in response to dynamic markets, while maintaining business-as-usual.
organisation design
Organisation design is a rigorous process of ensuring an organisation’s formal and informal structures, systems, work processes, and culture are purposefully organised to successfully execute the organisation’s strategy. It goes well beyond changes of reporting lines, and ensures the organisation is optimally “fit-for-purpose” through an internal transformation of structures, culture and people.
Leadership development
In our experience effective leadership development happens over time, on the job, through dedicated and deliberate practice. Leadership development efforts continue to be short-lived, focused on theoretical content-driven knowledge that fails to upskill or change behaviour. Your organisation and environment is likely to be increasingly dynamic and complex, demanding more adaptive leadership practices.
Trusted by leaders across complex organisations
We work with clients across a diverse range of industries from private, global, ASX listed top 100, public, and for-purpose enterprises with unique challenges and diverse industry contexts.
This includes financial services, education, healthcare, pharmaceutical, professional services, resources, energy, utilities, law, mental health, disability services, and government.
They each have in common an urgent need to transform their business, build capability, renew their workplace culture, and respond to dynamic markets and changing stakeholder demands.
What clients say
“Maximise works collaboratively with you, as the client, to implement customised and cost effective solutions for leadership and team performance challenges. When working with Maximise, you feel that they’re really engaged and listening to what are the issues. They will bring to the table, the following strengths: depth of experience and know-how from a solid base of credible contemporary thought leadership, practical and innovative approaches to solve complex challenges, and the ability to transfer learning and share useful ideas that work.”
- Executive Director, Human Resources, insurance business.
“Maximise has worked on a variety of programs with us over the past couple of years and has been a great support and resource. Projects have included a significant workplace change and team building program, recruitment process mapping, a role clarification and team development-integration exercise, and our workforce plan. Max is a great facilitator with the ability to engage people and get them working together towards a common objective.”
- Senior Manager, Human Resources, for-purpose organisation.
“Maximise has been working with us on an integrated program of structured group and one-one sessions, to optimise sales strategy and execution. Maximise’s work with me as business leader, the leadership team, and sales function, has made a significant impact to lift the team’s focus, capacity, and positioning across the organisation to deliver great results for the function and our customers. Max’s strengths are in listening, asking insightful questions, and encouraging client-driven action and outcomes.”
- General Manager, Sales, superannuation business.