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Supporting CEO's to do something special with their business through their teams.

A Performance Partnership The terrain we know back to front is Performance x Individual Excellence

It’s no secret, Sir Edmund Hillary achieved one of the greatest feats of mountaineering when he climbed Mount Everest for the first time. For decades, Hillary was celebrated and rightly so. 
 

But what about his Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay? 

Tenzing Norgay supported Hillary on the most incredible quest. He did all the heavy lifting and extra effort components. He did all the dangerous traversing. 

He gave advice on when to go and when not to go, where to cross, where to march, and how fast to climb. 

He was Sir Edmund Hillary’s performance director and key advisor, in his rise to the top of Everest. 

The emotion and symbolism of having to climb the world’s largest mountain, unassisted with oxygen, fighting and striving for something great – to reach the top of the world – resonates with all great business leaders. 

In any big quest, a rise to the top of any field or journey fraught with performance challenges, requires a faithful Sherpa, to support the leader in taking the organisation to the next level. With more than 15 years experience in working with C-suite executives and teams, we know what it takes to get you to the top.

Welcome to The Sherpa Initiative.

Overcoming the three biggest problems Creating an environment where your people can
be at their best

1. Personal Character
 
The first of these is personal character, or weaknesses that cause or harm a leader’s reputation, or standing, in a business. These can inhibit a leader’s capacity to role model and maintain strict standards. These weaknesses may also prevent them from taking on the biggest of challenges and solving really big problems that the organisation depends on them to overcome, for success.
2. High-Functioning Executive Team
 
The second of these is a leader’s ability to build a high-functioning executive team, capable of delivering an incredibly focused team-building model throughout an organisation, where team performance becomes a unit of success at all levels of the business.
3. Leadership Team Alignment
 
The third biggest problem is the inability of a leadership team to commit to and be 100% aligned, with key business outcomes, as well as the principles required to drive behaviours in line with desired results. The Sherpa Initiative is an exclusive and intimate relationship between a high- performance expert and an organisation’s leader, designed to support them in recognising and overcoming these three big problems within their business.

A partnership designed to solve the three biggest problems

A career spanning three decades 4 x Olympic Games, a decade in elite sport and 15+ years spent in the corporate sector

Olympic level determination, paired with empathy, honesty and grit.

With a commitment to serving others and making a real impact, he doesn’t shy away from tough conversations. Dan believes that winners are created at all levels and prides himself on working with leaders to create safe, challenging, and purposeful environments – that’s where excellence lives.

Dan has spent his life dedicated to the art of excellence – being at his personal best with unwavering commitment to his goals.

From preparing for big moments as an Olympic athlete representing Australia to managing elite sporting organisations across the globe, Dan’s experience gives him deep insight into the personal quest we all take to discover our best selves.
 
Having worked with large corporate sporting entities such as the International Rugby Board, Australian Sports Commission (in the highest levels of government), the AIS, NRL and AFL clubs as well as other industry leaders including Kestrel Coal Resources, Nucleus Network, Woolworths, Countdown, De Luca Corporation, Coles, Pepper Money and the Virgin Group of Companies, Dan’s expertise is in high demand.
 
 
Our leaders have been given the tools for developing a high performance environment and challenged in a way that creates new ways of thinking to realise this.
Mario Rehayem
Mario RehayemCEO, Pepper Australia
I witnessed Dan gain an understanding of a complex environment and then help us develop and deploy the key cultural pillars that will drive our resurgence and performance.
Pat McEntee
Pat McEnteeDirector, Woolworths Meat Company
Your steely grit and no-nonsense approach gets great results. Your catch-cry performance is the work currency and love is the home currency will be remembered and never confused, to improve our lives. Hands down a gold medal performance.
Linda Harding
Linda HardingChair, The Executive Connection (TEC45)
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