Leadership

Clear, effective leadership

You might value environments that provide clear direction and inspiring leadership. These organisations typically foster open communication channels and thoughtful decision-making processes. The workplace culture tends to encourage sharing of ideas and perspectives, ensuring they receive genuine consideration. Leadership styles generally balance strategic vision with practical guidance, creating an atmosphere of approachability while maintaining clear accountability.

Companies that care about leadership

Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 7,000 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities.
Constantinople
Constantinople is the first of its kind: an all-in-one software and operational platform for banks. We host and manage a bank’s customers directly on their cloud-native infrastructure. Constantinople’s state-of-the-art platform frees banks from running expensive infrastructure and replaces manual operational and compliance processes with automation at scale.
Noggin
When Noggin first started out, we wanted to solve the big problem of incident management and organizational resilience. We wanted to do it exceptionally, and make a difference along the way. Now with offices in Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and the United States, we’ve topped analyst reports in crisis management, and have won resilience awards. But most importantly, we’ve enjoyed ourselves and we’ve met a lot of really great people in the process.
Datacom
Datacom is Australasia's largest home-grown tech company. Drawing on the experience of over 6500 staff in 24 locations around the globe, we work with a full range of clients, from small start-ups through to government agencies and multinational corporations, to explore and extract the hidden value in their systems.
Smartgroup
Smartgroup partner with Australian employers to simplify salary packaging, novated leasing, fleet management, share plan administration and payroll services. And now, helping hospitals become more efficient through workforce optimisation. Since 2001, Smartgroup has grown to become one of Australia’s leading and most awarded providers of employee management services, recognised for their innovation and customer centric approach.
ING
ING is a pioneer in digital banking and on the forefront of being one of the most innovative banks in the world. We reinvented the way Australians bank by delivering simple, straightforward and good value products. We're committed to making banking frictionless, removing barriers to progress, and make people confident in their financial decisions. Today, our team has over 1,700 employees helping more than 2 million customers.
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Leadership and ways of working

Here are a few things you might expect if you’re working as part of a team that values leadership:
  • Clear team objectives with regular progress updates in structured team meetings
  • Leaders who maintain an open-door policy and are regularly seen engaging with team members
  • Documented career development paths with examples of internal promotions
  • Regular town halls or company-wide meetings where leadership shares vision and updates
  • Structured mentorship programs connecting senior leaders with rising talent
  • Recognition programs that celebrate both individual and team achievements
  • Consistent 1:1 meetings between managers and team members.

Interview questions to ask about leadership

Want to know if the team you’re talking to cares about leadership? These interview questions can get you started.
  • What opportunities are there to learn from senior team members? I'd love to hear about any mentoring or development programs
  • What's your favourite example of how the leadership team has supported or inspired the company recently?
  • How often do leaders provide feedback or updates on the company's performance and strategy?

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