After an interesting and varied career in the private and  public sectors, including senior roles in organisational development,  human resource management and corporate planning, Sue ventured out as a independent consultant in 2002.  Her pragmatic approach combined with a strong outcomes focus and high level skills in leadership, learning and development and engagement attracted a wide range of clients and challenging projects.  Ten years later, Sue still relishes working with clients on knotty problems, findings ways to help clients achieve new levels of effectiveness and building long-term partnerships. 

With some 20 years of experience in leadership and management development, group facilitation and executive coaching, Sue Sampson has successfully helped many different types of groups achieve required organisational outcomes, identifying goals and strategies and making shared decisions about the best way forward. Sue’s executive coaching work uses a strength-based approach that helps participants gain new insights about their existing and potential leadership behaviours, and implement new strategies. Coaching clients are challenged to think afresh about their leadership behaviour and to strategise for increased effectiveness.  Sue’s leadership development work utilises a range of experiential and collaborative processes to enable participants to develop new and powerful insights about their own behaviour. Stepping outside of their well-worn ways of seeing the world and the leadership problems within it stimulates new thinking and readies participants to take powerful first steps to new behaviour.  Workshops are transparently constructed as a safe practice space.  We find that participants embrace this space and develop increased ability to use metacognition and reflect on their current leadership behaviour so they can make new choices in the future. 

 Qualifications 

• Masters by Research (Management).  Thesis focused on leadership and influence.
• Bachelor of Business (Communication) with Distinction
• Accredited in Myers Briggs Type Indicator
• Accredited in all Team Management Systems tools. 
• Accredited practitioner with Cynefin decision framework methodologies
• Certified Practitioner Neuro-Linguistic Programming
• Certified Practitioner Coaching

 Directorships

• Director, Typefi Systems Pty Ltd.
• Director, Transform Developments Pty Ltd

Summary of Roles held prior to Consulting experience

 Prior to 2002 when she began working as an external consultant, Sue held a range of senior-level management roles including Director of Corporate Development (2000 to 2002), Director/Deputy Director of Corporate Development and Workforce Practices (1998 to 1999) and Director Organisational Development (1997 to 1998) in the Queensland Treasury Department. As well as her Treasury experience, Sue also worked in other Queensland Government departments including the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Primary Industries.  Prior to her government career, Sue worked as a journalist for the Queensland Country Life newspaper.