Western Power

Leadership Team Alignment

What they said.

Kat created the space and structure we needed to genuinely align as a leadership team. An incredibly impactful session that moved us quickly from individual perspectives to shared accountability.

Catherine Walker

Head of People Experience

The Need

Following changes within the People Experience function, Western Power established a newly formed leadership team responsible for leading a broad portfolio of people, culture and workforce initiatives.

Like many newly formed leadership teams, the group brought together a diverse range of experiences, leadership styles and functional expertise. The opportunity was to create greater alignment around how the team would work together, build trust, lead through change and deliver a consistent experience for stakeholders.

The organisation wanted to proactively invest in leadership effectiveness early, establishing strong foundations before challenges emerged.

The Solution

We designed and facilitated The Leadership Reset, a tailored leadership alignment workshop focused on strengthening self-awareness, team effectiveness and leadership cohesion.

The session combined individual reflection, facilitated discussion and practical planning activities to help the team better understand themselves, understand each other and establish a shared foundation for future success.

This included:

PRINT profiling and facilitated debriefs
Leadership self-awareness and reflection activities
Exploration of strengths, motivators and triggers
Team charter development
Ways of working discussions
Customer experience alignment activities
Leadership action planning
Review of employee engagement insights

Highlights

Designed to move from individual awareness to collective accountability.
Connected leadership behaviours to team effectiveness.
Linked leadership actions to broader organisational outcomes.
Strong balance between personal insight and practical application.
Leadership development linked directly to organisational priorities (not treated in isolation).
Clear connection between leadership style and collaboration, customer experience, engagement, and performance.

Challenges

Challenged existing assumptions and ways of working.
Strengthened alignment on how the team leads together.
Created space for open, honest conversation.

Wins

Greater awareness of individual leadership styles and motivations.
Improved understanding of team dynamics.
Stronger alignment around leadership expectations.
Increased trust and connection across the leadership group.
A shared foundation for future ways of working.
Greater focus on the leadership behaviours required to support organisational outcomes.

Most importantly, the workshop created dedicated time for the leadership team to step away from day-to-day operational demands and intentionally focus on how they lead, collaborate and create impact together.

As organisations continue to navigate change, growth and increasing complexity, investing in leadership alignment remains one of the most effective ways to strengthen culture, employee experience and organisational performance.

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