Empowering Effective Leaders

When people are in roles that “make their heart sing”, they are more engaged, feel more connected, and derive greater fulfilment from their work. If you can foster that passion as a leader, your people will thrive, resulting in exceptional business outcomes and a workplace culture that every leader desires.

Our goal at The Heartware Group is to enable leaders to successfully and consistently implement strategic priorities through people, while lifting engagement levels to create a culture of high productivity, innovation, and initiative.

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Products and services we provide

We work with engaged industry leaders to take a strategic and intentional approach to workforce design so they can harness and optimise the full potential of their people.

The Heartware Group offers the following services:

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Workforce surveys + analysis Workforce optimisation programs Employee engagement programs Coaching Corporate workshops The Predictive Index Facilitation Expert consulting Speaker/MC engagement

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How We Help You

Whether you’re a CEO, managing director, HR professional, department manager, or team leader, our Heartwired Evolution Program will help you and your peers gain the knowledge and skills to effectively and successfully lead your teams.

CEOs | MDs | Executive Leaders

While your primary focus is on strategy and execution, you need to ensure you have the right people in the right roles, performing the right work.

HR Professionals | Psychological Safety Specialists

Helping leaders and managers understand what support the people in their teams need, creating higher retention rates and reduced friction.

Managers | Team Leaders

Combine the art of effective leadership with the science of human data analytics, to help you lead your team to achieve their best work.

Take the free Predictive Index Behavioural Assessment

Take the free Predictive Index behavioural assessment to gain insight into your personal drives, needs and behaviours.

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Why use The Predictive Index?

We don’t make financial decisions without data, yet we constantly make people decisions without data. How is that fiscally responsible? The Predictive Index provides a predictable, data-driven way to strategically hire and deploy one of the most impactful assets in your business: your people.

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Are You Ready to Evolve as a Leader?

Explore The Heartwired Evolution, our immersive 11-month program designed to transform the way leaders lead. By leveraging data and science, leaders are equipped with the tools and skills they need to create an environment of high productivity, engagement, and innovation.

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Introducing Dawn Russell

With extensive experience as an executive leadership coach, certified presenter, and a motivational trainer and facilitator, Dawn brings her heart to everything she undertakes. You’ll find her polished, relatable, and equally comfortable challenging CEOs in her high heels as she is talking to tradies in her Steel Blue work boots.

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Who We Work With

Success Stories

Rosanna Dixon, Head of People & Culture, Orbital UAV

“The Executive Team has been able to review our business strategy using the PI framework and align it with the people who are best suited, behaviourally, to execute on those strategic initiatives.
What that means is that our teams have moved towards high performance in a significantly shorter time frame than if we’d relied on team members to figure it out on their own. And we now have insight into why people behave the way they do and how we can harness their deep-seated drives and needs, channelling that into work that they love.”

Taleah Hoffman, GM of Trainwest

“Being able to ‘bring’ our direct reports to each session on our laptops has been one of the most insightful leadership experiences I’ve ever had. It’s helped me realise that the one-size-fits-all approach I was taking was actually undermining my efforts with some team members.”

Dominic Russo, CEO of Diadem

“We were looking for a framework where people other than me could be involved in the recruiting and the performance development of people. We wanted to help managers continue to make their teams more effective. Creating scalability and predictability, rather than relying on one person’s intuition and 20-odd years of experience was important, and it’s great to have a set of tools and frameworks where we can hand over a deeper understanding of what we’re trying to achieve both culturally, and from a performance perspective.”

Your Road Map to Engaged Leadership

Dawn’s Amazon bestseller, heartwired!, gives you the blueprint for developing engaged leaders and optimising talent. Drawing on more than 30 years of hands-on experience, Dawn guides the reader through practical strategies with clear actions to achieve a whole new level of employee engagement and productivity.

Discover a step-by-step method that will deliver tangible results in just 10 weeks.

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