- Construction & Infrastructure · Leadership Development
Seymour Whyte
- 9 cohorts · 9 years · 100+ leaders developed
The client
Seymour Whyte is one of Australia’s leading civil construction companies, delivering major infrastructure projects across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
The challenge
Like most construction businesses, Seymour Whyte’s future leaders were being promoted for technical excellence — engineers and supervisors stepping into people leadership with deep project skills and little leadership preparation. The business needed a pipeline: leaders ready before the role arrived, not after.
What we did
Since 2017, a nine-month Emerging Leaders Program, designed with Seymour Whyte’s culture, people and business needs at the centre — monthly workshops so leaders applied their learning in real time between sessions, grounded in the Leadership Brain Framework™: clarity and decision-making under pressure, emotional regulation, trust, and accountability. The first cohort became a second. Seven years on, nine cohorts have been through the program — a leadership pipeline running as business-as-usual.
The results
Renewed every year since inception
100+ leaders developed across nine cohorts over seven years
They took the time to understand our culture, our people, and our unique business needs… The results have been outstanding. We've seen significant improvements in leadership effectiveness across the areas where the program has been implemented. Our leaders have been challenged to rethink how they collaborate, communicate, and inspire their teams, leading to a stronger, more engaged workforce.
- Ruth Haven · HR Manager, Seymour Whyte