Claire McKendrick

Partner
Coach | Facilitator

For more than 15 years Claire has designed, facilitated and led significant reforms to complex issues such as Aboriginal health, mental health, reforming Non-Government Organisation (NGO) funding, shifting hospital culture and performance, and assessing and building organisational capacities across NSW Health and SA Health.

She has co-designed and facilitated transformational and immersive leadership and learning programs for executives and social purpose leaders. These allow participants to explore, experiment and reflect on their leadership, while discovering new ways of being and relating to deepen their impact in the world.

Working with more than 1,000 leaders in government, academic institutions, NGOs, and social enterprises Claire has facilitated programs ranging from workshops to two- and six-day retreats and three-month immersions in Australia as well as internationally.

Knowing that true innovation and creativity emerge at the learning edge of systems, she artfully holds individuals and groups at this edge, helping leaders to work with greater self- and system-awareness to move beyond the current challenges.

With a decade of experience working closely with senior leadership of the NSW Health system, Claire was relied upon, as a senior executive, to manage sensitive, critical and complex strategic and policy issues while providing the highest level of advice and decision making.

Alongside a Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies and formal qualifications in economics, politics and journalism, Claire is a lifelong learner who draws upon a rich suite of adaptive and transformational approaches dependent on the issues at hand.