Executive Mentoring
Dean Logan - Performance / Career Coach
For the past 20 years Dean has worked alongside some amazing people. He has coached hundreds of elite and amateur athletes and was Appointed Assistant Coach of New Zealand’s National u19 AFL side that played the Port Adelaide u19 high performance Indigenous team in 2017. Just prior to this he was awarded the NSW/ACT AFL Coach of the Year.
He has been the CEO of some extraordinary companies both here in Australia and New Zealand and spent over 20 years in Canberra as a senior policy analyst / advisor.
He has been asked to reshape various companies and would consider himself a purpose driven leader. He has taken over the largest sailing club in the southern hemisphere and yet, worked with small mechanical teams to transform workshops. A Fellow of the Australian Risk Policy Institute Dean’s most valuable title on his CV is: ‘Carpenter / Joiner by Trade’.
Samantha Chambers - Career Coach
Samantha guides midcareer women who’ve lost their spark at work to transition into purposeful, fulfilling careers they’re excited to wake up to. Samantha has been there too. She knows what it’s like to dread Mondays and crave something more. More meaning, more joy, more you in your career. When she reached a point where she knew something had to change, she did.
Samantha has navigated multiple career changes, each time choosing growth, alignment, and fulfilment over fear and familiarity. She is living proof that it’s possible to let go of certainty and land somewhere even better and where you’re energised and thriving.
In the latter part of Samantha’s 25-year corporate career, she specialised in helping leaders navigate organisational change, giving her a deep understanding of how people grow through transitions. That work, combined with her own reinventions (including a sea change to a tiny Pacific island!), shaped the powerful methods she now shares with her clients.
Samantha is a qualified coach and member of the International Coach Federation and Professional Speakers Australia. She has an accreditation in human behaviour, specialising in strengths identification and insights. Samantha is also a published author and Chartered Accountant (yes, that’s where it all began)! She also writes and speaks on career change, career success, and the future of work.
With private coaching, personalised strategies, and step-by-step support, Samantha will help you build a roadmap to a career that truly excites you and fits who you are now, not who you were.
The Program
While a majority of the ASPIRE program is incredibly well structured, we also tailor the program to fit within your work-life demands. We certainly don’t ‘cookie cut’ a solution; we understand that everyone has different drivers, time frames and goals. Moreover, family is important! So everything we do compliments your ‘world’. Yes, we hold you accountable, but to succeed you need to enjoy the mentoring journey.
Balance
You can’t be an amazing leader if you’re not balanced. How do you find that balance and who are you accountable to?
Great leaders learn new techniques and they think out side of the box. We’ll challenge you on leadership concepts and theories you’ve never heard of.
Our Values
Our logo has been picked on purpose. The Tree Pose resembles balance, stability and strengthening your core. In our view, you can’t be an effective leader if you’re not balanced.
The key to success is to stop making excuses.
Explore the intrinsic value of giving back. Great leaders are generous with their time and give back to their community.
Your friends, family and even close colleagues, should not be your most trusted strategic advisors.
Wealth should never determine leadership success.
Remember, it takes various techniques to development a master piece. Embrace other disciplines.
Click on the button below. The first consult is free. Email us and we’ll be in touch within 24 hours. And there are no obligations. Absolutely none.
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is such a corporate term but ultimately you need to set milestones and achieve goals on time. It’s called discipline.
The ASPIRE Executive Mentoring Program Explained
The ASPIRE program is here for you and for three main reasons:
To ensure you achieve your goals.
To ensure you achieve more than we ever could.
You become a trusted, respected and most importantly; an authentic leader.
We get that not everyone wants to be a CEO. But a lot of us are tired of stale leadership. This isn’t a criticism of individuals, it’s a broad reflection of the state of leadership in corporate Australia.
Leaders are rightly scared to be themselves, let alone ‘unique’. The smallest ‘mistake’ will be picked up on social media and blown way out of proportion.
As a result, leaders find it almost impossible to think outside the box. This partly explains why many come across as bland or not approachable.
At ASPIRE we appreciate the negativity, but we don’t focus on it. Our goal is to rebuild this courage in leaders. But why?
In our view the future of leadership will be defined by one factor: authenticity. Anyone can plug a script into ChapGPT and claim it. There is nothing authentic about that.
Secondly, ASPIRE seeks to build generational value. We seek to change tomorrow, before tomorrow even starts. And we’ll show you how.
Evolution
The most inspirational leaders not only embrace failure they value evolution. They adapt, work on themselves and achieve. We’ll show you how.
Exploration
Resources
Why some of us don't have one true calling
What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, if you're not sure you want to do just one thing for the rest of your life, you're not alone. In this illuminating talk, writer and artist Emilie Wapnick describes the kind of people they call "multipotentialites" -- who have a range of interests and jobs over one lifetime. Are you one?
How to find work you love
Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he learned in this deceptively simple talk about finding out what matters to you — and then getting started doing it.
Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action? Tim Ferriss encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls "fear-setting." Learn more about how this practice can help you thrive in high-stress environments and separate what you can control from what you cannot.
Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
Elizabeth Gilbert was once an "unpublished diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' she found herself identifying strongly with her former self. With beautiful insight, Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorienting as failure and offers a simple -- though hard -- way to carry on, regardless of outcomes.