Case Study
Transformational Leadership Program
Matthews Australasia
Matthews Australasia is the Australian leader in intelligent product identification, inspection and software traceability solutions.
Catalyst is a transformational Leadership Program for Cultural Change
Overview
Facing fast growth and coming out of the ‘COVID Hangover’, Matthew’s Senior Leadership Team had identified a need for changing their culture in order to achieve their vision and goals. And they knew that the change had to start at the top of the organisation. In partnership with Matthews, we have designed and delivered a transformational leadership program aimed at the most Senior Leaders and also Managers who lead teams or departments.
Objective
Catalyst (internally called leadership@matthews) is built around Matthew’s strategy, what good leadership looks like, and which behaviours create the culture they need in order to achieve their organisational goals. This builds the 3 cornerstones of the program:

Catalyst’s high-level aims are to
- align business strategy and company values
- develop core skills like:
- creating self-awareness of own leadership style & impact on others
- developing emotional intelligence skills & manage own behaviour
- influencing team members & stakeholders without authority
- giving & receiving feedback & applying radical candor
- having difficult conversations & managing conflict
- adopting a growth mindset & creating psychological safety
- leading change and change agility skills
- increase team member engagement
- empower people to make decision and become confident in leading their teams
- Work collaboratively and build relationships across the business
SOLUTION
To enable & embed long-term behavioural change the participants are taken on a learning journey
- Pre-program culture assessment and alignment
- 1-2 Culture workshops: Purpose, Values & Behaviours (charter)
- 6-8 full-day leadership skills workshops
- 4-6 group coaching sessions to embed skills & behaviours
- 360 Feedback and 1:1 coaching
- Optional: additional team coaching
Catalyst is a 12 month transformational program that takes a holistic approach which starts with getting really clear on what ‘great culture looks like’, connecting to business goals and values before equipping leaders with the mindset and skills in order to lead by example and create a movement.
Intact Teams facilitates all parts of the program bringing in experienced facilitators and organisational coaches. You will experience blended learning, from pre-reading and assessments to live online and face to face sessions. Catalyst is not a sit and listen program. All our workshops are highly interactive. We lean on proven research and leadership models but aim to keep theory at a minimum.
Result
We facilitated the program in 2022/23 with the 21 participants of the Senior Leadership and Leadership Teams. All participants have been reporting an improvement on their own leadership and the impact on the people they lead. Everyone agrees they notice higher levels of trust and team member engagement.
Learners feedback on most impactful skills:
Coaching skills
75%
Accountability (self/others)
75%
Growth mindsets
75%
Leading Changes
75%
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