Customised Leadership Development Programs
Our customised Leadership Development Programs are designed to ensure your Leaders can maximise their personal & professional abilities providing significant lift in business performance.
We do this by combining leading edge workshops along with practical, experiental business case simulations and activities to create powerful group and personal impacts.
Intergrated with an assessment tool and one-to-one coaching, this approach enables participants to gain behavioural, experimental and the theoretical learning closely ties to tangible business outcomes.
Clients can look forward to enhanced leadership proficiency, better team cohesion, collaboration and productivity, and new understand of how their leadership style informs the success of the organisation.
Customised Leadership Development Programs include,
- • Change Leadership
- • Executive Engagement
- • HR Business Partner Program
- • Coaching Skills for Leaders
- • Client Consulting Mastery
- • Business Simulations
- • Leadership Team Psychometric Assessment Sessions
Kate is deeply committed to developing impactful solutions for her clients. She is a natural Coach with a selfless and straightforward demeanor.She is insightful, talented coach with a business focus who engages effectively with senior executives to increase their leadership bench-strength.
Dominic Johnson
Senior Manager, Partner Development
PricewaterhouseCoopers
I was lucky to have Kate as my coach who proved to be reflective, considerate and sensitive, whilst asking the tough questions and driving the focus and context that was needed. Her exceptional professionalism, experience and knowledge was evident throughout the process and I would recommend not only executive coaching but also Kate as an individual. 
Michele Berkhout, Marketing Director
SEMA Group
Executive Spirit is partnering with our Senior Leadership Team to develop their full leadership capability. The Executive Coaching model is allowing our Managers to self-reflect on their performance and take constructive action to address key development areas. It is an excellent investment in strengthening leadership behaviours and increasing Team cohesiveness. 
Angela Foskett, Director Human Resources
Virgin Mobile Australia
Kate has the strongest coaching skills of anyone I've ever met and I would not hesitate to hire her and Executive Spirit to help me sort out any strategic "human fulfillment" issues.
Cameron Berkman, Associate Partner IBM
Kate is an astute and insightful Coach who has assisted me with Executive Career Coaching. The tools, knowledge and professional networks Kate provided assisted me to confidently secure my next role.
Ferdinand Furch
Solutions Sales Manager ANZ, EMC
Kate Barker has become our resource in assisting leaders to strengthen their coaching capabilities. The Executive Coaching she has provided on an individual basis has given valuable insight and helped our leaders gain perspective in terms of managing relationships, conducting effective coaching discussions, managing performance. 
Shan Collier
Vice President, Business Transformation
JPMorgan Australia
In my career I have met a lot of coaches and Kate Barker at Executive Spirit is definitely in the top tier. She has exceptionally strong coaching experience, she is passionate about client and organisational outcomes and has the highest academic qualifications. I have been impressed with her extensive knowledge, expertise and powerful coaching insights. 
Dan Johnson, Marketing Director
Microsoft Australia and New Zealand.
The Executive Spirit's Coaching Program allowed my Senior Leaders to strengthen their leadership styles, having gained valuable self-insights, time to reflect, practice constructive behaviours and develop new strategies to lead ongoing change in the organisation. 
Noel Hamill
Director of Sales & Distribution
Vodafone Hutchison Australia
Training produced a 22% increase in productivity. When training was combined with coaching productivity increased by 88%. 
Study 2008
A study my Metrix Global on a Fortune 500 Firm found that Executive coaching resulted in an ROI of 529%. 
Fortune Magazine, 2009.
Kate's thought provoking challenging questions together with her ability to subtlety maintain accountability and offer new perspectives has meant that she has enable me to grow my leadership capability beyond my own expectations. 
Anna Floriano
Finance Director, Johnson and Johnson
- • Are you a Psychological Warrior?
- • Coaching and You
- • Executive Coaching: A Leadership Development Tool for Top Performers
- • Best Practice: Executive Coach and Coaching Client - the matching process
- • Weakness Revealed is a Leaders Strength
- • Leading effectively in the face of Change & Uncertainty
- • Mental Strength is critical for Peak Performance
- • Achievement = Happiness
- • Case Study: ROI on Executive Coaching
Referral program
Receive $1000 or an executive coaching session
Here at Executive Spirit we recognise that clients are our greatest asset. So it's no surprise that we attribute our success to significant referral business from clients.
Simply refer Executive Spirit to someone from your professional networks, a colleague or friend for an Executive Coaching Program. If your referral becomes a client within six months of the referral date you will receive either a complimentary executive coaching session or a $1000.
For more information contact us by email or phone (02) 9258 1944.




