TLC is built on a long history of Australasian executive management, board and consulting experience within top tier ASX listed companies, small and medium enterprises and not-for profit entities. With decades of experience working at senior and executive levels across many organisations, over time, we’ve seen that our contemporary business leadership paradigm of delivering short-term profits and maximum shareholder value at any cost has had its day. The outcomes being produced simply aren’t sustainable – for the companies themselves or for society.
There is now a strongly emergent societal zeitgeist increasingly less tolerant of this that is moving quickly beyond hopeful idealism or short-lived crankiness. An increasing number of investment entities are bowing to pressure from their members in their decisions about where capital is directed. As well, leaders tell us they no longer want to lead in this way, aware too often that they’re making business decisions that serve the short-term interests of their company while imposing too great a level of collateral damage on the broader community. They are uncomfortable continuing to do this.
Despite hundreds of books written and billions invested in leadership development, we’re not seeing significant improvements in leadership effectiveness. This will not happen by leaders becoming cleverer.
As Einstein purportedly stated, a problem cannot be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. While leaders continue acting from the same level of consciousness, they will continue doing more of the same, no matter what cosmetic appeal is adopted.
There is a different way – we know it rationally as well as intuitively - but most importantly, we know it from our observations and experience. We’ve been practising this different way of leading as well as guiding others in it for many years. There is a vanguard of leaders quietly embracing and exercising this alternative model of lifting their consciousness – becoming different in order to do different. This is not a sop for benign ‘good cause’ zeal at the expense of commercial initiative and discernment.
Rather, it is to attain a higher-level valuing of self and others and a broader, deeper perspective where many of the old either/or conundrums fall away and a previously unimagined, unifying response/solution becomes obvious. This is the pathway to creating buoyant, successful and sustainable enterprises which tread the middle ground of heart-based holism informing head-based acumen. It requires an exceptional level of mastery of self as well as of commercial and organisational levers.
At TLC we understand what leading in this way is, we know how to aspire to and practise it, and we know how to guide others to embrace and live it.
We Are Collaborators
We work with you to embed and integrate a number of transformative concepts and practices, lifting you (and your teams) to a new level of being (perception) and doing (performance).
We Are Innovators
These concepts and practices will continue to support your on-going evolution as a leader, and your business’s evolution.
We Are Inspirers
The concepts and practices we entrust to you are timeless, will evolve with you, and will irrevocably change the way you approach leadership and life - now and into the future.
Where We Work
Located in Brisbane, Australia and using available technology where necessary, we will collaborate with you wherever you are.
Tim Scholefield
Executive Director
BAppSc, MBA, GAICD, Cert Gov (Risk)
I have worked and continue to work in the commercial and not for profit sectors. Over 30 years I have: been a director, chair of board committees, senior executive and consultant. I have been coached and been a coach, been mentored and been a mentor. I have participated in and led various personal and leadership development/transformation, behavioural and cultural change programs. I have been a member of, developed and led culturally and linguistically diverse teams domestically and internationally, and worked in roles in project and operational delivery, project and asset management, strategy, governance, risk and crisis management. I have been held accountable for managing assets worth billions of dollars and have been involved in acquisitions, divestments, greenfield and brownfield projects ranging in size from USD millions to USD billions.
Prior to 2005 whilst I was strategically adroit and successful, challenges would arise that seemed insurmountable or opportunities that felt unattainable. I started to become curious if there was anything about me that might be contributing to these times of apparent impasse. Through becoming more self-aware in how I engage with and perceive the world, I was able to start to understand the drivers influencing my behaviours, intentions and actions. As a result I had more interest in understanding others’ drivers. I found myself being more open, understanding and inclusive and collaborating better.
This awareness has enabled me to evolve as a leader. I am able to be different in the way I lead and as a result do different in the intentions I set, the culture I instil and the actions I take. I am better able to discern a way forward when faced with impasse and when seeking holistic outcomes.
I have experienced the uplift in performance, improved business outcomes and increased quality of life that this way of being enables.
My choice to create Turquoise Leadership Consulting stems from a desire to share my wisdom and experiences with you to support your leadership evolution.
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Today we live in a corporate environment dominated by pressured decisions, short termism rather than sustainability driving shareholder return expectations, and policy responses that are a function of the 24-hour media cycles as opposed to rationale and enlightened political debate. How did it get to this?
In this environment it was a pleasure to work with Tim. His calm and insightful approach, passion to uplift our consciousness toward better leadership combined with many years’ experience in senior corporate roles underpins Tim’s ability to see through the clutter and volatility to support your longer term whilst respecting short-term imperatives.
Tim “gets” the world we work and live in however challenges us to be a better version of ourselves whilst still keeping our feet on the ground.
Organisational leadership, and the world, need more of this “medicine” in an era of short-termism eroding long-term sustainability.
Peter Israel, Global Director, Power
I have worked with and known Tim for around 20 years, including a number of years as a peer on an executive leadership team. I have found Tim to be a person of utmost integrity and full of compassion in either a personal or business situation. In a team environment, he was often the one that brought reality back to any issue, with the aim of focusing a light on the problem and driving an outcome through real conversations. During this time, our team was introduced to conscious leadership. Tim embraced this concept and as a leader practised the concept to BE different you needed to DO different.
Anyone willing to adopt this style of leadership and undergo the cultural transformation will benefit greatly from Tim’s mentoring.
Martin Riley, Non – Executive Director
I have had the privilege of working for Tim at various stages over the past 22 years. Tim has and continues to be an important part of my own personal leadership journey. I value his guidance and mentorship which has continued even though I am no longer working for him.
Tim has a key characteristic which I value in a leader which is a genuine passion to see others develop and succeed in their own leadership journey. For me personally, he created a safe and caring environment to allow exploration of my own beliefs and a greater level of awareness around how these beliefs impact my behavior and leadership style.
Having been a senior business leader in a major Australian company I believe that Tim has first-hand experience in how leading in a supportive and caring way can improve the well being of an organisation and ultimately lead to an uplift in business performance.
Dave Webby, Director
I have worked with Tim and known him personally for the last 10 years. His leadership in getting his team to a place to have authentic conversations and being comfortable with that, was challenging (with varied personalities), which I saw him navigate successfully. Though Tim was a senior executive within the company we worked for, I was comfortable speaking with him on issues at work as he genuinely believed in an authentic conversation and I felt safe without being judged. Of the many areas that Tim has influenced me is "going hard on the issue and soft on the person", which has helped me stay objective to the issue on hand.
Tim is a great leader and an excellent human being, who can genuinely contribute to any organisation's leadership evolution.
Balaji Bindinganavile, Group Manager
I have known Tim for over 10 years from working together on projects and being involved in cultural transformation initiatives. His wealth of experience within corporate environments and through working in the international arena has given Tim a deeper understanding to bring the myriad of perspectives that is highly valuable.
If you are looking to make a difference in the world by gaining a deeper insight into your current leadership style and have a burning desire to be a conscious, collaborative, mindful leader to support yourself and your team to achieve in a creative and impactful way then I would seriously urge you to start a conversation with Tim.
Masitah Lenon
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