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Better conversations.
Clearer direction.
Stronger performance.

Your team’s context, challenges and ambitions shape where we begin.

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01 · Leadership Team coaching

Build a team
that leads together.

At first glance, your leadership team might look impressive: capable leaders, clear responsibilities, bold ambitions. Yet in practice, working together often feels harder than it should. Priorities compete. Conversations circle. Decisions stall. Execution falters. Despite the talent in the room, the team isn’t operating at its full potential.

If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.

Across industries and geographies, even the most talented, driven leaders face the same challenge: learning to lead together effectively. Not because of a lack of capability. Not because the strategy is wrong. And not because of poor intent—most teams are full of committed leaders who want to do the right thing.

Instead, it’s because leading together as one unified team is a different game altogether.

I help groups of strong leaders become real leadership teams, using the Four Imperatives of High-Performing Teams™. Together, we build the team’s ability to lead as one and turn shared ambition into results. The impact reaches beyond the leadership team, shaping the culture and performance of the organisation you lead.

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02 · Executive coaching

Space to think.
Clarity to act.

You know what you intend as a leader. But is that how others experience you? Even with the best intentions, there can be a gap between the impact you want to have and the impact you actually have. Where are you making a difference—and where might you be getting in your own way?

Taking on greater responsibility, navigating change or wanting more from your leadership can bring questions you don’t have easy answers to. Coaching gives you a safe space to think aloud, test ideas and talk openly about what you’re finding difficult. It also gives you someone who will challenge your thinking, push you further and hold you to the commitments you make.

I help leaders understand what drives them, build on their strengths, see the impact they have and make deliberate changes in how they lead. What we focus on depends on what matters to you and what you want to achieve.

Our work combines honest reflection with practical action, turning insight into meaningful change in how you lead.

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03 · Speaking

Ideas to change
how leaders
lead together.

A group of strong leaders does not automatically become a real leadership team. That belief sits at the heart of my work and the perspective I bring to leadership events.

Drawing on my own leadership experiences, including my mistakes, and years of working with senior teams, I explore why leading together can be so difficult—and what it takes to do it well.

Through stories and practical ideas from my books and coaching work, I invite audiences to recognise what happens in their own leadership teams, consider the impact on those they lead and see what could become possible.

We shape the focus together around your audience and what you want your event to achieve.

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What clients say

Trust built through
working together.

“Rajeev Dewan has been my trusted partner in building senior leadership teams across Australia, Europe, and Asia for more than a decade. His Four Imperatives system is the most impactful leadership framework I’ve worked with—sharpening focus, strengthening alignment, and instilling the execution discipline that lifts performance and drives superior commercial results. Whenever I’m building a leadership team, Rajeev is my first call.”
John McCluskyCEO, Catholic Development Fund Melbourne
“I worked with Rajeev Dewan across our leadership system, including individually, with the leadership team, and with our extended group of senior leaders. Across that work, the challenge was rarely individual capability; it was getting leaders with real authority to operate as a cohesive leadership system. Rajeev brought coherence and discipline to that work. He aligned us not only on direction, but on how we lead and operate together as a leadership function. The impact was tangible: decision making sharpened, accountability strengthened, and execution improved.”
John MunnellyChief Digital Officer, KPMG Australia
“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Rajeev Dewan, and the experience was genuinely transformational. His passion, insight, and practical guidance helped leadership teams I was part of move from capable individuals to truly high-performing teams. Rajeev has a rare ability to create the conditions for honest, authentic dialogue, while keeping leadership teams focused on alignment, disciplined ways of working, and meaningful outcomes. The result is leadership teams that perform at a higher level, with greater trust, cohesion, and purpose.”
Natalie EckersallChief Claims Officer, Munich Re Australia
“I shifted from focusing primarily on my own function to prioritizing the collective agenda of the leadership team and taking real ownership for our shared success. I also became more deliberate about building genuine alignment around our goals—not just accepting polite nods in meetings, but ensuring real commitment. I showed up differently in leadership conversations, asking tougher questions and holding the team to what truly mattered. That shift changed how the leadership team operated. Decision making became more effective, stalled work regained momentum, and overall performance lifted across the business.”
Ira KolloExecutive, Transformation Domain, Corporate & Institutional Banking,
National Australia Bank
“In The Leadership Team Playbook, Rajeev Dewan distils the systems and vital behaviors that drive exceptional performance in leadership teams. At Vestone, implementing these disciplines delivered transformational impact—30% compound annual growth in sales, 21% compound annual growth in portfolio value, a step change in engagement, and a sharp decline in staff turnover. This is not theory, but a practical blueprint that enables leadership teams to institutionalize high performance.”
Ian DelaneyCEO, Vestone Capital
“Rajeev Dewan is the master at working with leadership teams to set them up for success, helping them not only be at their best individually but also establish the right conditions to operate as a high-performing team. His methods are tried and tested and take teams on a powerful journey that yields long-lasting results.”
Jasmine AshtonExecutive, Specialist Banking, Business & Private Banking,
National Australia Bank
“Working with Rajeev Dewan, something important began to shift. Our leadership team moved from leaders operating in silos to functioning as a real team - one that took shared ownership for direction, decisions, and results.”
Raelene SealesCEO, Prime Super
“I’ve turned to Rajeev Dewan through some of the most defining challenges of my career—from leading national practices to launching new ventures. His ability to turn a group of executives into a truly high-performing team is exceptional.”
Sara VegaFormer National Managing Partner, KPMG, Entrepreneur
“I’ve worked with Rajeev Dewan on and off for over a decade, as a team member, a leader, and through periods of major transition. He has a rare ability to cut through the noise and help leadership teams focus on what truly drives performance and cohesion.”
Steven HeywoodExecutive General Manager, Commonwealth Bank
“Rajeev Dewan is diplomatic yet refreshingly honest. His coaching has helped me lead with greater clarity, bring more truth into the room, and build stronger alignment and execution discipline across the teams and businesses I’ve led.”
Kathleen MackayChief Information and Digital Officer
“Over the past decade, I’ve turned to Rajeev Dewan whenever I’ve needed to strengthen my leadership teams. He brings deep insight and experience, alongside a generosity of spirit that makes the work both impactful and rewarding.”
Jason MurrayChief Financial Officer, Angle Auto Finance
“Over decades and across multiple organizations, Rajeev Dewan has helped me build outstanding leadership teams.”
Dr. Christine YatesBoard Member, former CEO
“Personally, Rajeev’s thinking has traveled with me across multiple career transitions. As I’ve continually reinvented my leadership journey, these ideas have remained constant—anchoring how I lead, how I build teams, and how I drive meaningful change.”
Rebecca EngelProgram Director, Microsoft

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