Welcome to Southern Cross Coaching & Development!

We care about people. It’s at the core of everything we do.

Our Mission:

Make the world a better place through better, neuroscience-based leadership.

Our multiple awards are testament to our practical-outcomes-focused leadership and team development services that consistently deliver practical results for leaders at all levels.

We’re particularly renowned for our pragmatic, human-centred, down-to-earth, neuroscience-based team and leadership development programs that get practical, measurable results in the real world.

Our services include Executive Coaching, Leadership Training, Strategic Facilitation, Team Building, Alternative Analysis and Critical Thinking, Red Teaming, Organisational, Culture & People Development programs – all underpinned by the highest level of ethics and integrity.

In fact, we put our money where our mouths are and offer a 100% Money Back Guarantee on our programs because we’re sure we’ll get the results you want. We’ve never had to refund a client in our history (founded 2006). See website for our fair terms & conditions.

We work with the Public Sector, Corporate, Listed, Global and Not-for-Profit/ Profit-for-Purpose clients. Public Sector clients span Federal Government, NSW State & other Local Governments right across Australia in metropolitan & regional areas.

Private Sector clients include National and International private & Listed corporations across Australia, New Zealand, the Asia Pacific Japan Region.

How we work:

We listen to you. We partner with you. We deliver results for you and your people.

Our multiple awards for Excellence in Business Ethics mean you know we have integrity – we do what is right and we do what we say. The genuinely client-customised solution we offer will do what it says on the tin!

For our Executive Coaching assignments, we have our unique Coach/Coachee Matching Matrix. We’ve never got a coach/ coachee match wrong since we started in 2006!

Our Awards

2025 WINNER: Best Training & Development Program, 2025 Defence & National Security Workforce Awards

2025 Training and Mentoring Program of the Year Finalist, 2025 Australian Defence Industry Awards

2025 WINNER: Mentor of the Year, International Titan Awards Gold Winner

COACH OF THE YEAR: International Coach Federation Australia

2024 Leadership Training Finalist, International Business Xcellence Awards

2023 Coaching Leadership Finalist, International Business Xcellence Awards

2021 Professional Services Executive of the Year Finalist, CEO Magazine ANZ
(only 4 finalists were chosen by CEO Magazine from across Australia and New Zealand).

Our multiple awards for Excellence in Business Ethics (2016, 2015, 2014 & 2013) mean you can trust that we will always do the right thing by our clients and our team (note: we didn’t stop being ethical in 2016, the NSW Business Chamber just ceased the award category!).

Our Defence Industry awarded programs are delivered in partnership with Department of Defence, Defence Learning Branch, and Defence Science and Technology Group. These individualised, coaching-based, workplace-driven leadership programs build strong, future-ready leaders across the Defence workforce (civilian and ADF workforces). This award-winning national recognition highlights our continued commitment to impactful, practical leadership development that drives real results.

Our Team

Our strength and success are in our expert team who are empowered to bring their deep expertise to tailor each program.

Our 35+ handpicked, seasoned, highly qualified, expert consultants offer a vast array & depth of both professional & personal experience. We have the expertise to deliver solutions ranging from a single Leadership training, Team Building session or Executive Coaching program through to large, multi-site, geographically disparate multi-team programs. You can likely get all the services you need right here, saving you time & money searching around.