ABOUT EXCELLENCE ACADEMY

The Excellence Academy aims to provide high quality, easily accessible developmental courses, plus affordable consultancy to businesses, associations and individuals. The Excellence Academy has become the provider of choice for many major corporations who share the common goal of establishing an ethic of sustained profitability built on a platform of sound and effective people leadership. The Excellence Academy provides high quality business presentations, facilitation and coaching services and unique developmental experiences to organisations, associations and individuals.

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IT IS WHAT WE DO Facilitation, Coaching, Motivational Speaking and Trusted Advisor Services. Because of the skill sets that are resident in the Excellence Academy we specialize in the area of leadership development. While conducting coaching programs we found our clients were looking for the opportunity to ‘stretch’ and grow their leaders. Or, they want to work with their senior people to create a learning environment that gets people ‘out of their comfort zones’ and truly aligned. “Simon has the ability to assess a business situation and articulate a way forward that obtains the commitment and engagement of the people he works with. With strong business acumen, clear leadership skills & a sense of perspective it make it is easy to recommend him & services to others.” Brendan Petersen read testimonials WE ARE DIFFERENT In our experience there are many excellent consultants and their courses available which provide a strong background in contemporary leadership theory, however we believe that gathering information about leadership and learning to lead better are distinctly different propositions. Our interactions and programs bring together the location, unique proprietary intellectual property and cutting edge learning delivery methods. This is all packaged with tested and proven instructional design to create a truly unique offering. view photo gallery REALLY EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP Imagine you want to learn to water ski - do you take a correspondence course, from your living room? NO...you need a boat, you need a river, you need skis and you need an instructor...its the same with leadership...we say, "sit around and talk about leadership all you like, but to really learn to lead you have to experience it".
MEET THE TEAM SIMON SMALL - Director and Co-founder Simon is degree qualified in Human Resources, Adult Education and is certified in coaching psychology, he is also a Graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon. His broad theoretical knowledge coupled with extensive practical experience offers an unequalled ability to facilitate learning and behavioral change in any environment. Service as an Infantry Officer in support of the Australian Army's Special Forces, coupled with his 10 years of private sector people development experience, Simon is ideally placed to work with your company. As he says: "In a military context, you can never completely control your fighting force. Therefore all you have to fall back on is the values and systems you've talked about, learnt and understood." Simon is clear that, "the operational missions he was involved in coordinating with the Special Operations Task Group in Afghanistan have given me the opportunity to work in a range of dynamic situations with all types of people and stresses. In these environments you gain an appreciation for what it takes for mission success." Simon now works as a facilitator, coach, motivational speaker and trusted advisor to a number of Australia's most forward thinking organizations. EMAIL SIMON

PETER O'BRIEN - Director and Co-founder Peter O'Brien has a long history of involvement in the research, delivery, and successful implementation of Business Improvement processes. Since 1990 Peter has provided the intellectual firepower that has seen his business emerge as one of Australia's most respected Corporate Development Consultants. Between 1987 and 1990 Peter was involved with the redesign and delivery of the RAAF's Leadership Training, including the introduction of experiential and adventure learning elements. On leaving the RAAF college, Peter joined the UK based "MaST Organisation", conducting the 'Leaders to the Top' program. After a year's preparation, he led a team of ten senior corporate executives to the summit of Mt Aconcagua, the world's highest mountain outside the Himalayas. As a facilitator Peter has built a reputation as dynamic, entertaining and highly informative, however his skills are not limited topresentation. He has facilitated many high-level organizational re-design forums, and in one instance, amazed conveners by obtaining resolution from 30 managers on a $300 million governance agreement in under a day. Peter's driving passion is the application of cutting edge thinking to business, and he is constantly researching fields such as philosophy, physics, mathematics, linguistics and business. Using this unique mix of influences, he has synthesised an interconnected range of strategic concepts for dealing with today's complex business environment, balanced with practical models for workplace implementation. EMAIL PETER

JOHN O'BRIEN - Lead Adventure Consultant John has specialized in developing relevant and accessible games, activities and adventures for corporate conferences and training events. His development of the concept of High Adventure Team Problem Solving Games is slowly sweeping the training world. In 16 years of contracting to corporate, educational and community training organisations John has safely dispatched well over 35,000 abseilers. John has gained repute as a major developer of sport rock-climbing in Queensland, putting up over 1,000 meters of new routes in one year alone. On a busy day John controls over 4 kilometers of rope as it runs through his right hand. You are unlikely to find anyone with more corporate adventure training experience. When working with John always expect something that is safe, challenging and very different.