Your leadership framework, made real
Most organisations do not need a new leadership framework. They already have one. What they need is for it to become how their leaders actually behave on a Tuesday afternoon. We design and run leadership capability development programmes, executive diagnostics and workplace culture reviews for public sector and local government organisations, and we add no new vocabulary. Your capability framework and your values are the only language participants learn and are measured against. The facilitation is led by people who have built high performing teams at the highest level, including the former head coach of the Australian men’s cricket team.
Your framework, your language, measured from day one.
- Leadership capability development programmes: cohort based, delivered in person over nine to twelve months, for executive teams, managers and people leaders
- Executive and team diagnostics: an individual leadership style instrument, a 360 built from your own capability framework and reported against it, and a team level diagnostic, on a platform you hold and can re-run without us
- Action learning projects on your live organisational problems, worked to a decision paper a sponsor has to decide on
- Executive coaching and a day of one to one shadowing for senior leaders, with feedback against your framework in the leader’s own working day
- Workplace culture reviews and reform roadmaps
- Values into practice, Theory of Change and programme evaluation, with quarterly reporting to the chief executive on what is shifting
- Learning design: facilitator guides, workbooks, journals and decks on your branding, which you keep
- Veteran and transition leadership programmes
How we design.
Six principles govern every design decision.
Your framework and values are the spine of every module. Where we use an external tool, its output is mapped back to your capabilities before it is used with participants.
Every session sets a workplace application task tied to a real decision the participant is already facing. The next session opens by reviewing what happened, including what did not work.
The same lead facilitator runs every module and coaching circle of a cohort, so the person who set the standard on day one is the person who reviews it at the end.
Sessions are mixed across directorates, the executive commits first, and every participant’s manager is in the programme too.
Conflict, feedback, poor behaviour and difficult conversations are rehearsed in the room, with real scenarios from participants, not role plays from a manual.
The baseline and diagnostics run before design is final. Participants leave with a development plan, a team charter and agreed standards that carry into performance conversations. The organisation leaves with instruments and a method it owns.
What the evidence says, and what we do about it.
We do not build on a proprietary model. The design draws on a small number of well documented bodies of work, each chosen because it answers something government leadership programmes get wrong, and each one is public so your people can check the basis for themselves.
The facilitation is world class, and it is not the whole job.
Nuvanta designs the programme around your framework, builds the measurement, runs the diagnostics and evaluation so you can show your chief executive and your council what changed, and manages the coordination, scheduling and reporting so the programme lands on time and within budget. The people named on the proposal are the people in the room, for every cohort, and any change to key personnel comes to you for approval first.
The honest trade-off. A larger leadership house offers a longer catalogue and a deeper bench. We offer a smaller team with more senior attention, a design built around your organisation rather than a catalogue, and a price with no licence tail: the only recurring cost on our diagnostics is a platform subscription in your name, not a fee per head for the life of the contract.
Where we have done this.
A practice launched in 2026
This practice launched in 2026. Its lead facilitator has been coach in residence to executive teams in Queensland Government and industry for most of the past decade, and the team has designed and evaluated leadership, values and culture programmes for public sector, not-for-profit and faith-based organisations.
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A 30-minute conversation. No pitch deck. Just a direct discussion about your context and whether we can help.
Melbourne VIC 3000
32 Turbot Street, Brisbane QLD 4000
Perth WA 6000