Leadership

Is the difference maker

Leadership

Is the difference maker

Our work is for CEOs and senior leaders who know that leadership effectiveness drives organisational performance and that there must be a better way to develop effective leaders.


As a leader, you want a coach that makes you better. Cameron Schwab makes me better.

End of story.

Every session grabs my attention.

Through sharing stories or leaning on his diverse experience and incredible curiosity and creativity, he makes every session a work of art.

Michael Voss

Senior Coach | Carlton Football Club

As a leader, you want a coach that makes you better. Cameron Schwab makes me better.

End of story.

Every session grabs my attention.

Through sharing stories or leaning on his diverse experience and incredible curiosity and creativity, he makes every session a work of art.

Michael Voss

Senior Coach | Carlton Football Club


Leadership speaker, mentor and team builder

Leaders seek something better

My work builds on the belief that leadership is the defining characteristic of every great organisation or team.

You cannot outperform your leadership.

Leadership expectations are changing, daily, and the stakes have never been higher.

Developing leaders who can navigate complexity is now a cultural and strategic priority. But it goes beyond technical leadership capability, we must develop leaders with character, courage, humility and compassion.

Our offering is designed for leaders who know that personal leadership effectiveness drives team and organisational performance and that there must be a better, more efficient and effective way to learn leadership.

If leadership doesn’t scale, neither will the organisation.

Cameron Schwab
CEO & Founder | designCEO

It was truly incredible to sit in the energy of a room of people completely captivated by your storytelling

Your vulnerability and the art you have mastered in weaving your personal story into some incredible lessons for leadership and life.

Thank you Cameron for a very moving and insightful session with our key clients overlooking the MCG. The feedback on the day and in the messages posted was just fantastic. We are very grateful.

Suzie McInerney

CEO | Six Degrees Executive

Speaker

Inspiring motivational speaker & storyteller

To lift, shift, and challenge the audience.”

  • I explore the deep personal and professional challenges I have faced as a leader with openness, vulnerability and generosity to create a powerful connection

    My goal is to have attendees reach for their notebooks to record the insights and wisdom from a fully-lived leadership experience.

    It is the hard days that define us.

    I am also an artist and writer, and I am told there's creativity and originality in my approach to my speaking, particularly the timelessness of storytelling.

Mentor

Building your personal leadership game

“I don’t coach to who the leader is now, but who the leader can be.”

  • By teaching, challenging, encouraging, provoking, reminding, referring, prodding, pushing, guiding and cajoling leaders to be the change they seek to make.

    We offer personal leadership experiences for CEOs, C-Suite and Emerging Leaders, designed to match leadership ambition with leadership capability, through tailored leadership offerings, including:

    • One-to-one coaching and mentoring, including 12-month Leadership Mentoring/Coaching, and One-Day Leadership Intensives

    • Shared leadership experiences with like-minded leaders, including Leadership Masterclasses, both virtual and in-person, and multi-day Leadership Immersions.

    People do not experience your intentions. They experience your behaviour.

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Team Builder

Embedding a high performance culture

“Creating the conditions that enable this group to perform at its best.”

  • Our methodology builds on contemporary and sophisticated teaching and learning models and systems for leaders, teams and organisations seeking to build high levels of trust as the basis for sustained performance.

    For team players to know their role, accept their role, and play their role.

    These range from one, two and three-day Leadership Masterclasses/Intensives, Leadership Team Coaching, to embedded tailored High Performance Culture and Leadership Transformation Programs, working with the organisation’s most senior leaders as well as targeted emerging leaders to ensure the establishment of a leadership pipeline.

It was truly incredible to sit in the energy of a room of people completely captivated by your storytelling

Your vulnerability and the art you have mastered in weaving your personal story into some incredible lessons for leadership and life.

Thank you Cameron for a very moving and insightful session with our key clients overlooking the MCG. The feedback on the day and in the messages posted was just fantastic. We are very grateful.

Suzie McInerney

CEO | Six Degrees Executive

You will be learning from the very best I have seen.

Rodrigo Pizarro

Managing Director | L'Oreal Australia & New Zealand 

Creating the conditions that enable this group to perform at its best.


Organisations we have worked with


The organisations we have worked with

The game does not give up its rewards easily

You will be learning from the very best I have seen.

Rodrigo Pizarro

Managing Director | L'Oreal Australia & New Zealand 


There has never been a better time to lead

Q: “What does the role expect of me?”

A: “Create the conditions that enable this group to perform at its best.”

At age 24, I was the youngest CEO in the 160-year history of the AFL, the preeminent professional sporting competition in the country. It was 25 years of intense learning in the unforgiving, unrelenting and often ruthless environment of elite sport.

Over the past decade, I have been invited into the inner lives of CEOs, and leaders - established and emerging - ranging from rapid scale-ups to established global brands, as well as the inner sanctums of their leadership teams, working together to identify and apply practical and evidence-based leadership solutions to the most vexing challenges that organisations face today.

Leadership is not what is happening inside you, generally in response to what is happening around you. As a leader, you are only measured by one thing:

“How you show up!”


More to the game

What leaders can learn from football?

Organisations often turn to the professional sporting codes, particularly football, when seeking to understand the key concepts of team, particularly the role of leadership in terms of establishing a winning culture and executing a game plan.

In my book, I seek to find some of the answers, the transferable principles and their applications.

The alignment of purpose and performance, the mechanics and dynamics of high-performance environments, and they can be taught.

The game does not give up its rewards easily.

People want to believe in something bigger than themselves