FOCUS
Stephen's focus is strategic facilitation - helping boards and senior leadership teams set their direction, agree their path and execute their plan.
Stephen is often engaged to traverse complex and delicate board or partnership dynamics. His cut-through ability to identify and address core underlying issues and opportunities enables his clients to achieve profound shifts in perspective and attitude.
Typical projects include:
- Facilitating "vision and strategy" retreats
- Partnership / senior management alignment
- Membership of advisory boards
- CEO coaching
- Succession planning
- Leadership development
- Aligning federated organisations (including not for profit).
CONTACT STEPHEN
BACKGROUND
Originally trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, Stephen worked in the corporate recovery and reconstruction area in Australia and the UK, exposing him to a broad range of businesses in varying degrees of distress.
Subsequently he moved into banking and held various senior credit and regional management positions with NAB. Immediately prior to joining AltusQ in 2001 he was Chief Operating Officer for a fast growing firm servicing self-managed superannuation funds.
He has held several board positions including Chair of an international business coaching organisation and Chair of HeartKids Australia, a national charity devoted to helping kids suffering from Congenital Heart Disease.
Stephen is also doting father to Sophie (22) and Samuel (18), married to Jackie (age withheld to help maintain current status), and poopscooper to Buddy.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Certified AltusQ coach and coach trainer
- EMCC Accredited Coach at Master Practitioner level
- The Leadership Circle (TLC) practitioner
- Chartered Accountant.
PAST & CURRENT CLIENTS INCLUDE:
CLIENT STORIES
THE COACH AS LONG-TERM, TRUSTED ADVISER
Woven Image
AltusQ coach Stephen Shepherd has worked with Woven Image over many years - in fact they're in the middle of the relationship's third long-term planning cycle. Growth, for both the business overall and for the CEO personally, has been the consistent, sustainable result.
TESTIMONIALS
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