David Smith - Executive and Leadership Coach, Facilitator, Leader Within

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Work Background

CoachHub - The digital coaching platformCertified CoachHub Coach

Sep. 2022AustraliaCoachHub.io is the European market leader in digital coaching. Their mission is to democratize coaching and to create a personalized and measurable coaching program for employees at all career levels. As a CoachHub Coach I am part of a global pool of more than 3000 coaches that coach in 30+ languages. The CoachHub “mobile coaching cloud” allows personalized live coaching sessions via video conferencing on CoachHub's platform. It supports the coaching process through digital learning and progress tracking. In regular sessions, I help prepare managers for better leadership, teams for better group performances and employees for personal and professional growth.

Leader WithinExecutive and Leadership Programs, Coach and Facilitator

Mar. 2020Frankston, Victoria, AustraliaLeader Within is dedicated to fostering leaders who infuse meaning and purpose into their roles and relationships. Our work facilitates profound insights into individual challenges and changes, often overlooked in broader leadership discussions, yet crucial for effective leadership. These insights can significantly impact leaders emotionally and physically, affecting their ability to lead effectively. At Leader Within, we guide individuals through a transformative journey to unlock their best selves. We believe that genuine understanding and leadership of others stem from profound self-awareness. Our philosophy revolves around cultivating mindful awareness of self and leadership. By honing self-awareness skills, individuals delve into understanding themselves deeply, not just as leaders but as individuals. This understanding enhances their capacity to relate to and lead others authentically. Our services cater to leaders at all levels, offering a unique leadership program focused on addressing the root causes of behaviors and challenges. Even those who believe they don't need such support benefit from gaining deeper insights into themselves and how their self-awareness influences their leadership behaviors. Specialising in mindful leadership, leadership coaching, leadership insight, personal change, high-performing teams, and transformational leadership, Leader Within operates on a foundation of values that prioritise authenticity, empathy, growth, and ethical leadership.

Self-employedCreator and facilitator of A Fearless Heart Men's Workshops

Jan. 2020Frankston SouthA Fearless Heart workshops were created so that men can get back in touch with themselves - so we can learn how to believe in our true potential and accept who and what we are, with a mindset of continued personal growth. The workshops create a safe environment where men can be challenged, be vulnerable, be honest and mostly learn how to break free of what has been holding them back.

CorporateDNA ConsultingConsultant

Jan. 2019 - Aug. 2023Asia Pacific RegionCorporate DNA is a global leadership firm since 2007 with offices in London and Singapore. They deliver across 32 countries and 15 industries. With a global team of 102 practitioners across 16 nationalities, we use our proprietary 4H methodology of Head-Heart-Hunch-Hands © to deliver exceptional value, each time, every time to translate Board and CEO intent into action. They believe that their clients are partners, not customers. Our experiential interventions combine inspiration with pragmatism to unlock the real potential of boards, leaders, teams and individuals I am currently engaged to facilitate High Performing Team programs to GSK as an associate of CDNA, within the Asia Pacific Region. This work has the objective of building a strong, resilient and effective team culture within GSK that aligns with their global business strategy.

BTS SparkLeadership Coach and Facilitator

Dec. 2017AustraliaI support a wide range of education leaders – school principals, middle leaders and teachers – to build their leadership skillset, grow their confidence and achieve their leadership potential. I deliver one-to-one coaching, group coaching and workshops, and have enjoyed working on Department of Education programs across several states.

BTS CoachAssociate Coach and Facilitator

Dec. 2017BTS Coach works with their clients with the philosophy that long term change will only occur when our mindset shifts. This is achieved using their leadership framework built from evidence-based research through more than 120,000 coaching conversations. The objective is create permanent, positive shifts that not only benefit the individual but can be applied within the organisational context. I coach and facilitate individuals and groups from a broad cross section of industries and levels within the company, from Executives to Graduates. In doing this I have created significant mindset shifts that has lead to improved relationships, greater effectiveness and generally a more positive leadership impact within the organisation.

BTS SparkLeadership Coach/ Facilitator

Nov. 2017Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · HybridSkills: Leadership Coaching · Team Coaching · Executive Coaching · Workshop Facilitation

GlaxoSmithKline Pharma GmbHCoaching Programme Facilitator

May. 2017 - Dec. 2020South East Asia RegionGSK is a science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose: to help people do more, feel better, live longer. Their goal is to be one of the world’s most innovative, best performing and trusted healthcare companies. They intend to do this by bringing differentiated, high-quality and needed healthcare products to as many people as possible, with our three global businesses, scientific and technical know-how and talented people. GSK believes in its people and invest heavily in their personal and professional development. My engagements with GSK are to facilitate their key leadership coaching programs - Practical Coaching in the Workplace and Coaching for Effective Leaders. The objective was to teach GSK leaders skills and techniques that build their ability to communicate effectively with their teams, while developing them through building relationships, empowerment and problem solving techniques. These engagements require me to work locally, nationally and internationally

Marlin Business DevelopmentTraining Facilitator

Sep. 2016Melbourne, AustraliaEngaged to facilitate training programs for Marlin Business Development clients delivering leadership programs.

Leader WithinLeadership Collaborator

Sep. 2016 - Mar. 2020Melbourne, AustraliaSmidj provides a unique approach to leadership development through offering it's 12Q programs - 12Q representing twelve leadership related questions. The uniqueness comes from the belief that all change is started through asking ourselves a question. In our programs we ask a single question per week for 12 weeks. Pretty simple, and yet capable of creating profound changes within leaders. For an obligation free conversation to explore your leadership development needs send me an email david@smidj.com or to get an idea about my style and what 12QL will provide take a look at my Free training video below.

TelstraSenior Project Manager

Oct. 2015 - Sep. 2016Melbourne, AustraliaManaging the IT delivery of projects within Telstra's IT Solutions.

TelstraChange and Leadership Specialist

Oct. 2014 - Oct. 2015Responsible for developing and implementing leadership programs along with internal consulting to leaders and team in developing their adoption of Agile ways of working. Engage with leaders and teams to develop capabilities for leadership and high performing teams, especially using Agile.

TelstraLeadership Coach

Jul. 2012 - Oct. 2014Melbourne, AustraliaWorking in Telstra's IT Solutions business, this role is responsible for developing and implementing group and individual coaching programs that focus on leadership and team development, cultural change and improved business processes.

Pharos Coaching Pty LtdExecutive Coach

Oct. 2011 - Aug. 2014Melbourne, AustraliaExecutive Coaching and Leadership Development

ANZSenior Production Manager

Oct. 2010 - Oct. 2011Richmond, VIctoriaProduction Manager for Payments and Cash Operations: Problem resolution, operational improvement, BAU support and data analysis.

ANZBusiness Assurance Manager

Jun. 2009 - Sep. 2010RIchmond, VIctoriaEstablished and managed the team responsible for Operational RIsk, Compliance and Information Security for the Payments and Cash Operations business

ANZProject Manager, Operating Model Implementation & Risk Manager

Dec. 2008 - May. 2009Melbourne, AustraliaEstablished the team and provided mentoring and coaching on developing the plan and requirements for implementing a standard operating model. Established the risk environment. Provided a key contact point of knowledge and leadership in the process and risk management fields of expertise. Implemented the communications strategy for the project. Initiated Operating Model workshops within the teams whose objective is to consolidate and formalise procedures to be performed as part of the operating model. Provided leadership in clarifying the requirements to be implemented in the operating model and ensuring that management reached a consensus in the message they were telling their staff.

ANZLead Manager - Risk and Compliance

Mar. 2008 - Nov. 2008MelbourneReporting to the Senior Manager established the team with other members of the senior management team. This role included defining deliverables for all resources, recruitment of resources, management of contract staff, first point of contact for staff, and implementing team structure and processes. Implemented major improvements in the planning and implementation of key process control testing.

ANZProject Manager, Quality and Process

Jan. 2003 - Feb. 2008Melbourne, AustraliaImplementation of a standard SDLC process methodology based on Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and the requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. Implementation of compliance frameworks, covering SDLC, production support, user access Managed the change management processes. Created and implemented a consolidated Quality Assurance and compliance review process. Implemented production support metrics reporting. Implemented a formal risk management structure. Implemented specific process improvements. Coordinated Disaster Recovery Planning and testing.

ANZQUALITY AND PROCESS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER

Jan. 2000 - Jan. 2003Melbourne, AustraliaGained CMM Level 5 accreditation. Markets Technology became the first internally run, Australian IT department to achieve this level of CMM process maturity. Key resource in for implementing cultural change of the technology team to becoming more quality and process focused.

ANZSenior Analyst Programmer

Jan. 1996 - Jan. 2000Melbourne, AustraliaAnalysis, selection of vendor, solution requirements and design of the deal and settlement printing function. Automation of batch processing system. Planned and managed the implementation of major releases. Analysed, designed, and built the RXM interface process. Analysed, designed and built the original interfacing process using Connect:Direct. 24/7 full time support for 18 months.

EDSSYSTEMS ENGINEER

Jan. 1990 - Jan. 1996Participated in the Systems Engineering Development programme and completed it to qualify as a Systems Engineer. Technical support and development of key applications for GMH. Developed major portions of the GMAC reengineering project.