Derek Gross is a leadership and performance coach who helps founders and leadership teams translate talent into measurable business results. He works with growing organisations where execution, accountability, and decision-making begin to strain under scale.
As a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths coach, Derek specialises in diagnosing team misalignment—not at the personality level, but at the systems level. His work focuses on how strengths interact with structure: meetings, priorities, roles, communication patterns, and accountability mechanisms. The outcome is practical clarity—teams that move faster, make better decisions, and reduce friction before it becomes costly.
A core part of Derek’s work is identifying hidden performance gaps inside teams—where capability exists but is not being activated by the system around it. Using an instructional design lens, he translates these gaps into targeted learning, operating rhythms, and behavioural mechanisms that close the distance between intention and execution. Rather than generic training, he designs interventions that are directly tied to real work, real constraints, and real outcomes.
Derek frequently partners with business owners, executives, and fractional leaders to resolve performance constraints such as stalled execution, unclear ownership, leadership bottlenecks, and cultural drag. His approach is analytical, outcome-driven, and grounded in operating reality—combining strengths diagnostics, system design, and applied learning to produce durable performance change.
He is the founder of 360Brilliant and advises clients across leadership development, team effectiveness, and strengths-based organisational design.More...