Cam Forsyth
Background
Cam has 25 years of experience as an Executive Coach, Facilitator, Team Coach and Trusted Advisor to leaders and organisations navigating complex challenges.
His niche is helping leaders take step back and make sense of their personal and organisational challenges and experiences. He supports and challenges leaders to surface the understanding and insight needed to see their strengths and future potential, distil what is interfering with their progress and make meaningful change to succeed.
Coaching philosophy
Cam helps leaders, teams and organisations take a systemic and wholistic view of their development by looking at the elements that influence and impact their success from personal mindsets, behaviours and emotional intelligence to organisational culture and building teams. He assists leaders to develop meaningful actions that drive change and create stable and trusted working environment where people and organisations can thrive.
Professional Snapshot
Areas of expertise
- Leading small and large cross functional leadership development programs that develop leadership maturity and organisational effectiveness
- Coaching teams to build trust and psychological safety, accountability, enterprise leadership and a performance culture
- Building agile & effective leadership, navigating leadership career transitions, growing influence & impact, developing resilience and emotional intelligence and supporting high potential leaders to succeed, building trust and psychological safety, influence gravitas and presence
Qualifications and accreditations
- Master of Education (UWS)
- Master of Applied Science (UWS)
- Master of Applied Psych (UTS)
- International Coaching Federation Certified – PCC
- PACFA – Clinical Member
- Human Synergistics - LSI, LI, MI & GSI
- The Leadership Circle - LCP
- Hogan 360
- Hogan Personality Inventories – HPI, HDS, MVPI
- Hogan Team Profiles
- MRG - LEA360 & IDI
- DiSC
- Values in Action
- Clifton Strengths
Group and team coaching
Cam facilitates large group coaching sessions as part of a senior leaders program. Each group meets several times over the course of a year to embed learning from facilitated modules for a telco. He also leads peer coaching sessions as part of a leadership program in a financial services business, this team successfully worked with peers to create action plans and be accountable for results.
Talent assessor
- Succession planning assessment
- Running succession planning using Hogan personality assessment
- Conducting third party interviews, candidate interview with qualitative questions and a scenario challenge and report writing
Success stories
- Facilitated for a global health care business faced massive innovation challenges due the nature of the sector. The organisation has run an annual global leadership program to foster exceptional leadership effectiveness and innovation for leaders in Australia, South America, the UK and Spain. The 6-month program included Leadership Circle feedback, virtual region masterclasses and a one-week face to face innovation challenge for all participants in Europe. In 2025 the participants participated in an innovation challenge that created a new business strategy that revolutionised and transformed an existing piece of customer facing technology in the business. The talent retention in high potential senior leaders who completed the leadership program from 2020 to 2025 has increase from 70% to 95%. The programs had an NPS score of 95 in 2024 and 96 in 2025.