Andrew Attard
Background
Andrew is a registered psychologist who specialises in leader capability development. He uses his knowledge and experience as a psychologist, in combination with practical experience gained leading teams in a range of contexts, to assist leaders to improve capability, performance, and wellbeing in themselves, their team, and their organisation. As a psychologist, Andrew has worked in a range of government and commercial consulting roles, primarily in senior-leader capability assessment, development, and coaching.
Coaching philosophy
Andrew looks to create a coaching space and relationship that is open, flexible, and encouraging, where his clients value and look forward to working together. He is client-led in terms of agenda and takes the time to understand context and considerations. He seeks to explore issues, opportunities, challenges, strengths, exposures and people, and to do so constructively with evidence, balance, and from a range of perspectives. He seeks clarity around intent and ambition and explores options to produce appropriate outcomes in a robust, pragmatic, and solution-focused manner, considering both what needs to be done and how best to go about doing it.
Professional Snapshot
Areas of expertise
- Leadership program design, development, and delivery
- Design, development, and delivery of assessment for selection and development
- Executive and senior executive coaching
Qualifications and accreditations
- Registered Psychologist, Psychology Board of Australia
- Master of Organisational Psychology, Macquarie University
- Bachelor of Arts Psychology (Honours), Macquarie University
- Bachelor of Economics, Macquarie University
- Commissioned Officer, Australian Army (Reserve)
- Member, Australian Psychological Society
- Associate Member, APS College of Organisational Psychology
- Member, APS Coaching Psychology Interest Group
- Member, APS Military and Emergency Services Psychology Interest Group
- Hogan: 360, HPI, HDS & MVPI,
- SHL: OPQ, MQ, & Verify,
- Talogy: EIP3
Group and team coaching
- Team coaching project with senior executives focussing on enhancing cross functional collaboration and the development of strategic plans
- Workshops focussing on enhancing individual and team planning skills as part of a leadership development program
- Team coaching project with senior and operational leaders focussing on leading enhancements to workplace culture during a period of significant and ongoing change
Talent assessor
Andrew has significant experience in psychometric and individual assessment for selection and development from 2012 to the present.
He has been a member of various teams, across various organisations, working on a range of projects, providing assessment for selection, in government and commercial contexts, for front-line to senior executive roles. He has worked across the full set of assessment for selection activities, including assessment design, candidate shortlisting, assessor at assessment centres, independent panel member for final interviews, report writer, and providing feedback to candidates.
His psychometric instrument certifications include:
- Hogan: 360, HPI, HDS, and MVPI
- SHL: OPQ, MQ, and Verify
- Talogy: EIP3
He also has internal accreditations as an assessor for a range of proprietary psychometric assessment tools from a number of multi-national talent management organisations.
Success stories
- Was the consulting psychologist delivering leader and senior executive assessment, feedback, and coaching, for selection and development, to a range of government and commercial clients
- Led leadership program design, development, and delivery (facilitation, assessment, and coaching) for high potential major incident controllers, from a range of Australian jurisdictions and government agencies in the Emergency Services sector
- Led leadership program design, development and delivery (facilitation, lead assessor and assessor trainer) for junior and intermediate leaders in the emergency services sector
- Served as coach for the NSW Public Service Commission Leadership Academy, Leading Executives and Leading Managers programs
- Was consulting Psychologist on a team that successfully designed and delivered an innovative coaching fundamentals package for junior leaders in the Defence and Emergency Services sector