Leadership & Team Coach · Perth
Twenty-five years running operational excellence at Pfizer, Nestlé and P&G.
Now I coach the leaders running theirs.
Leadership and team coaching for senior leaders in pharma, FMCG, food & beverage and utilities — grounded in a quarter-century deploying best-in-class operational excellence systems.
Working with Leaders at
- Pfizer
- Nestlé
- Procter & Gamble
- Cadbury
- Lion
- Synergy
- Water Corporation
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25<span>+</span>
Years leading operations
at enterprise scale -
7
Enterprise organisations
on four continents -
500<span>+</span>
Senior leaders
coached [confirm] -
ICF
Associate Certified Coach
accreditation
Two systems
The leader. The operating system. Both built to last.
One system for the senior leader running the work. One system for the way the work runs. They reinforce each other — each is the missing half of the other.
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The One-on-One <span>Advantage</span> System
Five One-on-Ones that change how leaders lead.
A deliberate cadence of five conversations — onboarding, touch base, progress, performance review and growth — designed to compound engagement and capability across a twelve-month leadership year.
For senior leaders & their direct reports
Practical playbook, not a theory
Embedded over twelve months
Measurable engagement & performance lift
Explore the One-on-One Advantage System →
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OPEXpert <span>Operational Excellence</span> System
Five drivers of a culture of continuous improvement.
World-class operational excellence systems, deployed fractionally and context-specifically, so the system lives on after the consultant leaves. Starts with a focused diagnostic. Ends with a self-sufficient internal team.
Constructive Leadership Culture
Leading & Managing Change
Team Work
Lean Execution
Tiered Accountability
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How I can help
Three ways to work together — one standard.
Each of the three is grounded in the same operator's perspective: understand the real work, then change what actually needs changing.
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Leadership Coaching
One-to-one coaching for senior leaders stepping into larger scope, deeper complexity, or a role that has outgrown how they used to lead.
Explore 1:1 coaching →
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Capability
Workshop programmes for teams that need to lift a specific capability — strategic thinking, psychological safety, leading change, team performance.
See the workshop portfolio →
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OPEXpert
Lean and Agile consulting for leadership teams redesigning how the work flows — flow, value and engagement, not tools and rituals.
Run the diagnostic →
Matt has a rare ability to listen past the presenting problem and name what's actually going on. Our leadership team moved from tolerating each other to trusting each other inside one quarter.
Claire · Senior Leader, Pfizer
Read more from leaders Matt has worked with →
About
Who you'll actually be working with.
I started in operations at Procter & Gamble in the UK, then Nestlé internationally, then Cadbury, Lion and Pfizer. First half of that was Toyota Production System and Lean at plant-floor depth. The second half was change, innovation and enterprise Agile — most recently leading global Agile coaches in Pfizer's global Enterprise Agile coaching function.
What I do now is coach the senior leaders running the organisations I used to run. The work tends to be calm, disciplined, methodical — and it tends to produce the kind of change that sticks after I've left.
Based on Whadjuk Country, Perth, Western Australia.
Credentials & Focus
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
25 years leading operations and enterprise change programmes
Lean Six Sigma — deep practitioner, not badge collector
Certified in Agile enterprise coaching
Works primarily with pharma, FMCG, food & beverage, utilities
Individual, team and programme-level engagements
If a thirty-minute conversation is useful, the link below books one.
Discovery calls are unrecorded, free, and have no follow-up pressure. You describe what you're trying to move; I tell you whether I think I can help.