Geoff Thomas
Background
Geoff is an Organisational Development professional with more than 20 years experience working across leadership and talent development, culture transformation, coaching and facilitation. He has an enduring commitment to supporting personal and organisational transformation.
Geoff works with front line contributors to senior leaders and teams to help drive personal, team and organisational effectiveness. Geoff’s core belief is that we can affect change by working with people on mindsets, skillsets and toolsets. Geoff has had many years of experience in coaching, consulting, leading teams, designing, developing and facilitating immersive and experiential blended leadership programs and learning experiences. He knows the realities and day to day challenges faced by leaders and their teams in an increasingly fast paced, disruptive and changing business environment.
Coaching philosophy
Geoff's coaching approach is genuine and empathetic, meeting people where they are at in their own development, self-awareness and readiness for change. He combines this facilitative, encouraging style with an ability to challenge. Geoff’s core belief is that we can affect change by working with people on mindsets, skillsets and toolsets. This ranges from challenging self-limiting beliefs through to practical strategies that benefit the individual and organisation. Geoff uses a unique approach to coaching called 4D coaching that creates deep insights and call to action. It is based on Serious Play methodology. He incorporates the many diagnostics he is accredited in into his coaching. Geoff has had more than 5000 hours of coaching experience since the late 1990s.
Professional Snapshot
Areas of expertise
- Has more than 5000 hours coaching and counselling experience and has been counselling and coaching since 1994 and is currently completing his PCC ICF coach certification with the ICF
- Delivers foundational, intermediate and advanced coach programs and has created a unique process called 4D coaching based on the Lego Serious Play methodology.
- Has debriefed individuals using a wide variety of profiling and 360 tools including LSI, The Leadership Circle, Myers Briggs step 1 and 2, DISC (Integro), Hogan, Situational Leadership LBA1, and Expertship Lencionis 5 dysfunctions
- Has completed capability mapping and design for IAG and manufacturing organisations
- Worked with more than 32 leadership teams in all stages of team development
Qualifications and accreditations
- Certificate in the Foundations of NeuroLeadership
- Diploma of Management
- Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment
- Grad Cert Adult Education and Training, Education and Training
- Bachelor of Business, Management and Leadership major UTS
- Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Accreditation
- Living works – Suicide intervention accredited facilitator
- Mental Health First Aid accredited facilitator
- NeuroPower Group Accreditation – Enneagram based
- DISC Accreditation – (incl 5 Behaviours) Integro
- Korn Ferry Leadership Architect – Global Competency Framework
- The Leadership Circle (TLC) 360 diagnostic
- Organisational Culture Index (OCI) and Organisational Effectiveness
- Index (OEI), Human Synergistics
- Lifestyles Inventory (LSI, GSI Group styles, CSI Customer Service Styles), Human Synergistics
- Situational Leadership II © and LBAII - Blanchard International
- MBTI, CPP
- Lego Serious Play Accredited facilitator – used in coaching, teaming, strategy
- Art of Hosting Practitioner
- Accredited Expertship 360 De-Briefer and coach for HFL – A 360 for Technical Experts
- Accredited Lifeline counsellor and group facilitator
Group and team coaching
Worked with the Lend Lease Corporate Real estate team over a one-year team coaching engagement.
Talent assessor
- Hogan 360
- Hogan Personality, Development and Values Assessment HPI HVP HDS
- DISC (Integro)
- MBTI
- TLC
- LSI, GSI, OI
- SLII (Situational Leadership - LBAII
Success stories
- Coach and facilitator with the Nestlé Broadford senior leadership team, helping to build both personal and team leadership brands and culture, supporting the team to establish a strategic path to embody the Broadford Brand, resulting in improved safety, quality, team morale, and engagement during times of change, and positively influencing leadership quality audit results
- Team Coach for the Autism Spectrum Philanthropy and fundraising team, supporting the team to define team behaviours and values and to articulate and explore strategy, impact, and reach