Our Commitment to You
We are all about helping people find true career satisfaction and developing workplace cohesion, productivity and strong leadership.
It’s all about relationships!
We have provided hundreds of career management and outplacement services and are continually providing top-quality programs that are innovative, personal and results-driven.
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Personality & Passion
We don’t just talk the talk, we live it! We understand the power of personality and the potential for the right blend of different personalities to achieve workplace cohesion and exceptional results. All of our team members are acutely aware of theirs and each other’s personality traits and know how to draw on strengths to propel performance and optimise job satisfaction.
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Connection & Empathy
Our staff have undergone extensive emotional intelligence training which allows us to really listen to each other and our client’s and offer support and guidance accordingly. Our success is attributed to our ability to build valuable and lasting professional relationships with each other and our clients.
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Harmony & Cohesion
We understand workplace cohesion (stickiness and resilience) is optimised when all members operate with a keen sense of self awareness, honesty, integrity and a willingness to lean-in.
An Enterprising Culture
Brad Barker
CEO
Brad is passionate about building leaders, salespeople and managers; both professionally and personally. His focus is high-performing teams and individuals, using coaching and training of leaders and sales teams.
His story includes extensive experience in the technology, mining, aerospace, government, and medical industries in Australia, North America, and Asia. His focus is primarily on leadership, management, sales, and operations development.
His ultimate goal is to bring overall operational improvement to each client he works with, delivering on business outcomes by unlocking the potential in people, and by bringing a fresh approach.
Lindsay Thorrington
Career Consultant
Lindsay is a highly skilled trainer in all facets of coaching and mentoring, career change, transition and preparing and adapting to retirement.
With decades of experience under his belt, you’ll be in very safe hands throughout your entire process.
He has a long track record of success in building resilient and productive individuals and wants to help everyone that he can in what they need.
Kim Barker
Strategic Client Relationships
Kim is a Strategic Client Relationship professional who is motivated and excited by working with clients and companies to find and deliver outstanding solutions.
Her breadth of experience includes working in Australia (WA/Qld/Vic) and the US so not only does she bring a vast amount of background knowledge, she understands cultural differences, the differences and uniqueness of people and is a tireless worker behind the scenes
Shad Watson
Marketing Manager
Shad has 22 years of experience in a wide range of creative fields. In recent years, he has broadened his expertise in marketing and strengthened his approach with CDA’s psychology of influence methodology. “Nothing is more compelling than where we are right now in terms of the need for lateral creativity in business and people.”
Lachlan Scallion
Creative Director
Having worked closely with Melbourne’s startup industry during his time as a photographer. Lachlan brings a wealth of experience to CDA. Using his intuition and passion for design he helps brings CDA to life through images, videos and web experiences.
Rhys Knight
Content & Course Developer
Rhys is driven to present learnings that are engaging, relevant and that are useful during and after completion. With a background in Training & Assessment, Rhys has created, developed, trained and assessed different courses both online and face-to-face.
What is it like to work with us?
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We actually care
The first thing you’ll notice is we listen, I mean really listen. We work to find and execute on solutions that are centred around your needs, concerns and desired outcomes.
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We roll our sleeves up
We understand that change never comes without real challenges. We work closely with both you and your people to ensure collective clarity of the objectives and buy-in from all parties.
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We get results
We have serviced hundreds of organisations in career development, coaching, training and outplacement across Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Our willingness and ability to tailor solutions and get our hands dirty has given us the opportunity to work with some of the most innovative and successful organisations in the world.
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