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Leanne Holdsworth
Humanising workplaces: I help leaders create the conditions for their people to be at their best at work for the sake of the ability of the organisation to achieve it’s purpose and so they can go home in good shape to be good humans
My favourite clients are leaders in organisations who have a hankering for their workplaces to become more human but who need someone to walk alongside them. It might be as a mentor, or as a collaborator in designing and delivering leadership development programmes. They can come from anywhere. Having consulted for most of my career, I have worked with leaders in the public, private and NGO sectors. In the private sector across manufacturing, retail, tech, energy and others.
Organisational wellbeing and connection consulting: A public sector client where I mentored the executive team (and a group of champions across the organisation) to create (through a bottom up process) and truly embed, a set of leadership principles that created the conditions for everyone to be at their best at work through shared accountability about who they wanted to be for each other. This included facilitating business case conversations, designing and facilitating leadership principle workshops, consulting regarding integration of principles into existing policies and procedures and executive team coaching.
Leadership development programme: I am the client lead for a large New Zealand organisation where it started as delivering a leadership development programme to their top two layers of leaders in the organisation. This led to a ‘trusted advisor’ role, where I am still, three years later, invited in to advise on leadership challenges, facilitate leadership off-sites as well as provide executive coaching and executive team coaching.
For me, it is firstly about meeting the client where they are. If it is an organisational wellbeing/humanising workplaces challenge, I love supporting sponsors through the business case journey, mentoring the champions, and through the senior team’s own learning and growth journey when it comes to leading the humanising of their workplaces. If it is a leadership development need, my approach is deeply collaborative, bringing my curiosity to the specific client context to co-discover and co-design a programme that meets the needs of the humans in situ.
I originally trained as a chartered accountant. This provided me with a solid commercial footing that, mixed with my passion for humanising workplaces, enables me to traverse the pragmatic realities of business challenges with the deeply human needs of connection, purpose and belonging. I am also the author of two leadership books; A new generation of business leaders and Human work; five leadership mindsets for humanising workplaces (co-author).
Amplifying the message of humanising our workplace in the world is my jam. I speak at conferences, masterclasses, in-house events and retreats around the world about the why, what and how of humanising workplaces and organisational wellbeing.
Please feel free to book in some time here – https://calendly.com/leanneholdsworth/30min if you would like to chat about anything human work, organisational wellbeing or leadership.
And, if you are interested in assessing how human your workplace is, download the free organisational self scan here
Amanda Bayliss“I have found Cultivating Leadership’s workshops for our leaders to be transformational. Leanne has challenged our leaders assumptions and had them work experientially on their real world challenges that have brought lasting results to how they lead, communicate and strategise. She creates an environment of psychological safety enabling deep insights to be learned and shared. If you are a leader dealing with complex challenges, I would highly recommend you attend a leadership workshop Leanne is facilitating.”
Manager
People TEAM
I feel so grateful to work alongside my fellow Cultivating Leadership associates in this learning community. I am also the lead for Cultivating Leadership’s public programmes as we aim to democratise access to more leaders around the world to our material.
Bachelor of Commerce
Post Grad Dip Public Policy
Leadership Circle Profile coach
Author/co-author of two leadership books; A new generation of business leaders and Human work; Five leadership mindsets for humanising the workplace
I am blessed to be the Mother of three young adults. I spend as much time playing Mum as they will let me. Often that means getting my “creative on” in the kitchen cooking up a storm (and they and my husband will attest to my super-power of using every pot possible and creating a huge mess). Nature fills my soul and I love to spend time in the bush or at the beach. And I’ve just taken up knitting which I’m finding is matching my audible book addiction perfectly. I with my husband and youngest child am a roaming global citizen and a proud New Zealander.
