All Visionary Leaders Want One Thing.
GROWTH.
Growth Advisors to visionary leaders in the New Economy.
WE SPECIALISE IN STRATEGIC INNOVATION, SALES & MARKETING OPTIMISATION + LEADERSHIP & TEAM DYNAMICS
For over 10 years, we have worked alongside visionary leaders to build market-leading brands, develop top talent, simplify strategy, define product architecture, deploy technology, launch new solutions, secure clients, improve top-line revenue, and dominate geographies and industry niches.
Our clients include challenger brands, boutique law firms, specialist professional services firms, SMEs, private equity funds and fast-growing technology companies, from Series A to the Fortune 50.
Our team includes globally recognised strategists, sales and marketing mavens, performance psychologists, lawyers-turned-coaches, proven business-builders, software engineers and talent advisors.
Our expertise is identifying and leveraging our client’s growth opportunities through our capability-development framework Perform IQ™, and applying technologies, tools and training programs we have developed.
Our services include:
Strategic Innovation - planning + positioning workshops to establish a viable game plan, identify valuable customers & guide commercial outcomes
Sales Effectiveness - storytelling + presentation workshops to develop a signature winning narrative that engages, connects & converts customers
Marketing Optimisation - analysing historical data + building a Predictive Marketing Engine to forecast revenue & supercharge return-on-investment
Leadership & Team Dynamics - bespoke Perform IQ™ workshops + programs to help people focus, adapt, grow & thrive in a rapidly changing world
Executive Coaching - a curated collective of award-winning + industry-specific specialists for personal, professional, leadership & business growth
Only for the growth ambitious.
Perform IQ™
We don’t do different, we are.
In 2013, High Performance People was founded to fill a gap.
As a new breed of management consultancy, on a mission to help visionary leaders become Growth Leaders.
Growing people and business, in perpetuity. But not just any growth. Growth that builds agility and leaves no one behind. The kind that helps businesses prosper and catalyses positive change for people and society alike.
Some may say it’s too good to be true. Our 70+ clients - and the communities we partner with - would say it’s the opportunity of a new era.
Together, with our sister company - Carlyle Kingswood Global, we’re seizing it.
Our Impact Guarantee.
Whatever your growth goals, when you work with us we guarantee you’re buying impact, not days.
Our Guarantee means that in terms of the outcomes we’ve agreed for our work together, we’ll do whatever it takes to achieve that impact.
It means if we have to work harder or put on more sessions, we’ll do that and it’s on us.
For the guarantee to be valid, all we ask is for you to work in unison with us.
To apply our tools, training and technology to your world, and to lead passionately around them.
A few clients we’ve partnered with…
Love your bottom line. Growth Leadership.
Our purpose, mission and values.
We’re here to help our clients realise their growth ambitions, to achieve measurable and enduring improvements on their top and bottom line, and to build a consultancy that attracts, develops, inspires and retains a diverse mix of exceptional people.
We are a values-driven firm. Our guiding principle is to put our client interests ahead of ours, which informs our long-term strategy as well as how we serve our clients and broader community. We hold quarterly workshops to reflect as a group on what our values mean to both our work and our lives in these changing times.
We value high ethical standards, diversity of thought, teamwork, preserving client confidences and asking the tough questions, with the overriding aim of building enduring relationships based on trust.
Our purpose is to be the most valuable Growth Advisor to visionary leaders on the planet, defined by our impact, and our partnership with Carlyle Kingswood Global is taking us around the world.
James
HEAD OF LEADERSHIP
James is a transformational leader, serial entrepreneur and business advisor to boards, CEOs, C-suite leadership teams, private equity and family office investors.
As Founder at High Performance People, James leads the company’s focus on developing the strategy, training, talent and technology solutions that have helped many of the world’s most visionary leaders to achieve their growth ambitions.
Starting out as a blue-chip marketer in the UK, James is a former CMO & Marketing Consultant to fast-scaling consumer & technology companies across Asia Pacific, has co-founded technology start-ups Ateliex Group and Forebrite, preeminent recruitment firm The Ladder, and today is also Partner - Consumer & Technology at global executive search firm Carlyle Kingswood.
One of the talent industry’s thought leaders, James has developed HPP & CKG’s Growth Leadership model, published a number of articles and opinion pieces on transformational leadership, and helped a number of Australia’s businesses dominate new geographies and industry niches.
Fishy
HEAD OF STRATEGY & FACILITATION
David Fish, aka Fishy, is a globally recognised strategist, business leader and record-breaking pilot.
What makes Fishy and his approach unique is his ability to draw on a rich and diverse range of business and life experiences combined with an innate way of making sense of the complex.
His superpower is spotting patterns, connecting the dots and uncovering solutions that others don’t see. A persuasive presenter and master facilitator, he can captivate a room as well as guide groups to discover and co-create powerful fresh ideas.
His experience spans roles from Chief Strategy Officer to company founder and Managing Director. He has tested himself in the toughest environments soaring thousands of feet off the ground to set new world records, competing at the elite level of sport aviation as well as overcoming his own life challenges and using this to motivate himself to help others unlock the possibilities on the road ahead.
Vlad
HEAD OF SALES & MARKETING GROWTH
Vlad is part strategist, marketer, developer and data analyst, having led sales and marketing teams in digital agencies in Australia and the UK, including heading-up strategy for clients including Audi, Blackmores, eBay, Electrolux, Pizza Hut and Novartis.
Moving over to Big 4 firm EY in 2016 as Senior Manager Advisory Services, Vlad consulted to a number of Australia’s ASX-listed companies before taking on roles as start-up CEO at Laundromap and Chief Customer Officer at Molemap.
Vlad founded Forebrite to help growth-orientated mid-tier companies build predictive marketing engines, supercharging the performance of their marketing efforts with a unique mix of software and consulting. Unlike other providers, Forebrite leverages existing customer data to separate the signal from the noise.
A teacher at the Australian Institute of Marketing, Vlad’s experience in identifying a business’ north star, the metric that best predicts your growth, helps HPP clients never be lost in an ROIN conversation again, elevating senior sales and marketing professionals at the C-suite.
Emma
HEAD OF OPERATIONS
After a globe-trotting marketing career in travel, leisure and hospitality, on moving to Australia Emma quickly discovered a passion for process management, strategic planning, P&L management and implementing new technologies.
Now HPP’s lynchpin for service delivery, Emma’s many talents extend to content marketing, event planning, customer relationship management and new product development, all of which has been instrumental to the business’ exponential growth.
Her superpowers include identifying issues before they arise, acting as a cultural ambassador across multiple geographies and strenuous time zones, and always delivering excellence in business partnering.
Emma has a strong values-based mindset, a love of continuous learning, and a genuine affinity people.
Ways to work together…
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