Roadmap to Leadership Success
A leadership development program built around you.
- Neuroscience-based
- 360-degree emotional intelligence feedback of your strengths and development needs
- 1:1 coaching to turn your insights into action and workplace behaviour change
- Build your personal career development plan
- Bite-sized learning spread over 4 months
500+
participants
100%
recommended
Program overview
Create your own personal leadership development Roadmap
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Unlike traditional leadership programs, this is tailored entirely to you – your strengths, your challenges, and your leadership context.
With the support of your coach, build your Leadership Roadmap Action Plan based on your assesments.
Your Roadmap action plan covers:
- Managing up & influencing
- Leading Teams
- Collaboration & Teamwork
- Communication and Confidence
- Adapting to Change
Outcomes you’ll leave with
Leadership insight
A clear understanding of how others experience your leadership strengths and where you need to learn and grow.
Your personal leadership roadmap
Your written leadership strengths and development plan tailored to your career goals.
Practical behaviour change
Strategies and coaching support to define and implement your actions in your workplace.
Career impact
The program supports leaders in progressing to higher responsibility roles.
Who the program is for
Designed for Executive Teams
The program support you as leader in; leading teams, managing complexity, preparing for promotion, and developing leadership capability, subject matter experts
EL1 – EL2, SES 1
Newly promoted and seasoned leaders seeking to deepen and strengthen their leadership expertise and capability.
APS 4-6
New, aspiring and developing leaders seeking to be the best leaders they can and learn practical future-ready leadership skills in the AI era.
Participants map their Roadmap, strengths, development needs and career next steps to the Federal Government Capability Framework (ILS).
This means that when agreed upfront the completed roadmap can be integrated into ongoing performance development conversations.
Can be adapted to other capability frameworks. Contact us to discuss your needs.
“Having a one-on-one coach for support and guidance with the RoadMap and next steps was incredibly valuable.”
Brendan James – GENERAL MANAGER
What makes this program different
The individual leadership program you’ve been looking for!
Many leadership programs focus on theory without meaningful personal insight. This program focuses on translating insight from real-time 360-degree feedback into individual actionable workplace behaviour change. Key differences:
Individualised Development
You build your own personal roadmap based on your assessments and workplace feedback results.
360-degree feedback
360-degree feedback gives participants evidential insight and awareness of the effects and impact of their behaviours in the workplace.
Real Workplace Behaviour Change
Coaching sessions focus on you and defining your blueprint of specific actions for your work environment.
One-to-One Coaching
Professional leadership coaches support you to implement your actions right away. 3-5 coaching sessions, depending on your budget
Tangible Outcome
Every participant finishes with a career plan in their Leadership Roadmap to progress their next career steps. (mapped to their capability framework)
What participants have achieved
“This course was better than I was expecting. … I have already recommended this program to colleagues and a friend in Defence.”
“The program really helped me think outside the square when it came to my professional development. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire process and am grateful for the opportunity to be involved.”
“What set this program apart was how well the coaching was tailored to the individual. The course was invaluable, and I would highly recommend it to both APS and ADF members.”
“Easily the best course I have done within Defence or APS. It provided real, valuable insights that will assist in daily tasking and long-term career goals. I have recommended this course to my whole team and sincerely believe it would benefit anyone serious about their professional development.”
ADF Personnel
Evidence-based Leadership Assessments
Quality researched assessments
The program uses validated assessment tools widely used in professional leadership development.
These include:
Emotional Intelligence 360 Assessment
Collects structured feedback from managers, peers, direct reports and stakeholders.
Psychometric Personality Assessment (15FQ+)
Provides insight into behavioural tendencies influencing leadership style, communication and decision-making.
Together these tools provide a multi-perspective understanding of leadership effectiveness.
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For individuals and organisations
Organisational stakeholders can use the program to support capability development for individuals or groups across all leadership levels.
The program can be delivered for:
Testimonials
“This course was better than I was expecting. … I have already recommended this program to colleagues and a friend in Defence.”
“The program really helped me think outside the square when it came to my professional development. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire process and am grateful for the opportunity to be involved.”
“What set this program apart was how well the coaching was tailored to the individual. The course was invaluable, and I would highly recommend it to both APS and ADF members.”
“Easily the best course I have done within Defence or APS. It provided real, valuable insights that will assist in daily tasking and long-term career goals. I have recommended this course to my whole team and sincerely believe it would benefit anyone serious about their professional development.”
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The coaches
Deeply experienced leadership coaches
Participants work with experienced leadership coaches drawn from diverse professional backgrounds. Many of our coaches are:
Coaches are selected based on their expertise and matched to participants to support their development goals.
Participants select their coaches in the process and directly book their sessions with them. In the scaled program participants will select their coach based on their bio and availability.
If a coaching match is not suitable, participants can be reassigned to another coach.
About the program creator
Developed by Simon Smith
Founder of Southern Cross Coaching & Development, Simon Smith has spent over 18 years developing leaders across government, defence and corporate organisations.
A former British Royal Air Force officer, Simon later established SCC&D, which has grown into a national leadership development and executive coaching organisation working with organisations across Australia.
Simon has been recognised with multiple industry awards including Coach of the Year (International Coach Federation Australia) and Mentor of the Year (International Titan Awards 2025).
The Roadmap to Success program draws on his extensive experience coaching leaders from new managers through to senior executives, uniformed ranks /defence personnel and government leadership roles.
Start your leadership development journey
Participants leave the program with deeper leadership insight and a clear roadmap for professional growth.
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