Andrew Brown

Andrew partners with clients in building integrated leadership cultures through developing leadership capacity at the individual, team and organisational level. His focus is on supporting clients to address their business strategies through developing effective leadership mindsets and practices.

As recognition for Andrew's work in embedding a leadership culture at AXA Australia, he participated as a panellist in the keynote address for the 2011 Melbourne Business School Future of Learning Conference.

Andrew has held executive positions across the Asia Pacific region. These include Chief Actuary for AXA Life Singapore, Chief Financial Officer for Philippine AXA Life and head of Learning and Leadership Development for AXA Australia.

Andrew's abilities in building and harnessing leadership capacity reflect his previous appointments as director for the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (IAAust), convenor for the IAAust Futurism Committee and member of the global AXA Learning and Development Board.

About Andrew's Approach

Andrew's approach to developing leadership capacity draws from the fields of systems thinking, cognitive behavioural psychology, foresight thinking, developmental psychology and integral philosophy. Through this study and his own experiences at embedding leadership cultures, the following core themes drive his approach:

Developing a leadership culture starts with deepening personal insight - we can only lead our people and our markets to the extent that we can lead ourselves

There is a developmental pathway that individuals, teams and organisations will travel; the pathway needs to be traversed one phase at a time, in order for cultural change to take effect

We work in human systems; dialogue is essential to create commonality of understanding and shared experience in order to create an effective culture

We cannot solve tomorrow's problems by simply applying yesterday's thinking; to adapt to our evolving world, we need to continue to build on our current thinking through a combination of being present to what is emerging now, and open to future possibilities

Education

Andrew has completed a Bachelor of Science, a Diploma in Education, is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

Andrew is a certified coach, master practitioner and trainer in NLP and Neurosemantics. He is also an accredited practitioner in culture and individual assessment methods such as the Organisational Cultural Inventory (OCI), The Leadership Culture Survey (TLCS), Emotional Intelligence, Herrmann Brain Thinking Preferences, Myer Briggs Type Inventory, Life Styles Inventory and The Leadership Circle.

Services

Designing broad-based leadership curriculum and initiatives that are customised to address the strategic problems a business is trying to solve

Facilitating dialogue that opens up new possibilities and creates the space for groups to move forward

Coaching and mentoring individuals to catalyse deeper personal insight and self authorisation in order to actualise their ultimate potential

Supporting organisations in interpreting Engagement and Cultural Surveys for their specific context, and putting in place structures that allow teams and functional units to take responsibility for creating sustainable and ongoing cultural change