We are a collective of founders, finders, and future thinkers determined to create a world of difference for generations to come.
We may be a small organisation but with a reach of 20 % of Australia’s board and executive talent, we feel a big responsibility to influence change.
We are proud to be recognised as an employer of choice.
We have been recognised as a Great Place to Work for the past three years as our team continues to grow. By integrating seven specialised talent businesses into one Future Leadership ecosystem, clients connect with a trusted advisor where one common approach is underpins many customisable solutions.
The Great Place to Work benchmarking and insights empower leaders with real-time reporting on how their employee engagement is performing against the world’s top companies. Certification is the mark of great employee experience. We are proud to create a world of difference alongside this community of recognised change-makers.
Every day we challenge ourselves to activate a sustainability mindset.
Recognising our responsibility as a B Corp-certified business, we lead with future generations in mind when it comes to environmental regeneration, social equity, and governance integrity.
Our values of care, collaboration, solve and impact come vividly to life through our partnerships, programs, and working culture. Whether bringing more future-focused executives to the table through our Future Leadership Capability Framework, or building a diverse community for leaders through our Future Exchange app. Leading today, with tomorrow in mind.
Changing the way we work means changing the why we work.
Measuring Success
Measuring our individual, team and organisational success in the way our behaviour reflects our values, including NPS, BCorp reporting, team engagement metrics, workforce priority research and inclusive leadership.
Values In Action
Living our values so that our ‘how’ is always founded on caring, collaborating, solving and impacting. Our values serve as a decision-making guide, a methodology, and a way to open tough conversations when needed.
Intersectional Diversity
Embrace intersectional diversity across social, cognitive, skills-based and identity markers to shape truly inclusive and psychologically safe cultures in our own organisation, as well as our partner organisations.
Sustainable Futures
Activate a mindset of curiosity and culture of stewardship for the communities we serve. We aim to create a world of difference via preparing boards and executives with capability for the future, identifying diverse leaders, developing inclusive leadership, and enabling sustainable capability ecosystems.
Our values underpin the way we work, every day.
Future Leadership’s values underpin our processes, our decision-making framework, our recognition systems, and the way we treat clients, candidates, program participants, and each other.
Our Values in Action project this year, saw us embed our values into collateral such as our position descriptions, success plans, case study templates and client/candidate surveys. We have reviewed all internal communications to speak to how we measure up against our values, not just our numbers!
We prioritise a safe environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and value. Our passion propels us to do the right thing, go the extra mile and ensure our interactions are filled with authenticity, integrity and empathy. We trust and are kind.
We work together to listen, connect and support each other. We approach interactions with open minds, humility and respect to ensure we learn, share ideas and benefit from collective wisdom.
We think curiously and creatively to achieve future facing solutions that are innovative, fit-for-purpose, and deliver results. We are high-performers and market leaders at the top of our game.
We create a world of difference by delivering measurable and sustainable outcomes. We embrace innovation, and commit to positive change, for people and for planet.
Future Leadership is a proud B Corp living, learning, working and partnering by the values of care, collaborate, solve and impact.
B Corps is a certification and a promise to meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
Our Business Journey
In 2018 we created the Future Leadership vision to help Boards and Executives get future-ready. Our commitment was to aggregate experienced or established, niche HR solutions businesses to be stronger and more impactful together. Fisher Leadership was our cornerstone business, over five years we have brought together seven businesses via acquisition, start-up investment, technology and governance to build our solution suite. Each of our founders remains an active leader working in or on the business.
2002
Fisher Leadership, our cornerstone business was founded by Jo Fisher to bring better diversity to leadership tables.
2008
NGS GLOBAL Australasia was created by Mark Lelliott and Dr Marianne Broadbent to help organisations access top talent, globally.
2016
CLA, the Centre for Leadership Advantage was founded by Dr Marcele De Sanctis and Terry Coyne, taking an intuitive approach to psychometric assessment for top-performing Australian companies.
2018
The Future Leadership strategy was formed by Michelle Loader and the board to support leaders in an accelerating leadership lifecycle.
2019
Gig Executive took shape as a startup spun out from the search business, shaped by many leaders including Adam Kyriacou.
2020
Career Accelerator, a digital transition platform built by June Parker, was integrated into our product suite.
2020
A number of acquired businesses and products were brought to together to cement our advisory offering including CLA, Career Accelerator, and CogNative.
2022
Future Leadership adopted as the parent brand, catalysing the Future Exchange Community App, FLI the digital Future Leadership Imprint; and FLCF, the Future Leadership Capability Framework.
2023
Accelerated Talent, NGS Global Oceania, and Arbiter Technologies joined the team.
2024
The seven specialised businesses became one brand, Future Leadership. Allowing clients to identify exceptional leaders, develop high-performing teams, and transform organisations, all in one place.
How we work
Future Leadership has brought together the combined experience and capabilities seven niche people solutions firms. Over the past five year, we have aggregated the strengths and reach of NGS Global Pty Ltd, the Centre for Leadership Advantage, Fisher Leadership, Accelerated Talent, Career Accelerator, and the Gig Executive interim practice. In addition, Arbiter Leadership Technologies are being integrated into Future Leadership’s suite of capability assessment programs. We know we are stronger together.
What we do best
We have been sourcing diverse leaders for over two decades, placing more than 50% senior women at executive tables, and achieving a track record of appointing more than 3% First Nations and Indigenous leaders to impactful positions across industries. We recognise that diversity in decision-making holds true business value, when the value of intersectional diversity is treated as serious business.
What we believe
Our ability to tap into the fractional workforce known as Interim Executives helps organisations change ahead of change. We are living through a fundamental transformation in the way we live, work and think. Leaders are dealing with skills ambiguity, economic uncertainty, and mounting pressure to act on social, environmental and governance issues. Having a dynamic talent strategy helps organisations deal with the shortening of leadership tenures and the rapid change in the operating environment. As one brand, our integrated solutions support leaders wherever they are on the leadership journey.
Why we’re different
We are committed to nurturing an inclusive, physically and psychologically safe culture. fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace and beyond. Our policy is to treat our team of employees and associates, as well as our community of clients, candidates, participants and suppliers (both current and prospective), fairly and equally regardless of their gender, race, age, family or carers responsibilities, sexual preference or other visible and invisible differences. We create a world of difference by partnering with organisations to build inclusive leadership, grow diversity, and enable sustainable ecosystems for the future.
Governance for the common good.
Transparency is a key component of a ethical business practice.
The leadership capabilities of tomorrow are uniquely human.
The urgency to cultivate human skills alongside technical skills, especially among emerging leaders, cannot be overstated.
