About Campbell
Leadership under pressure has been my whole working life.
Army officer, then twenty-five years on both sides of leadership and culture – consulting to tier-one contractors and global tech firms, and three times a Chief People Officer, in law, construction and aged care. This practice is what I built from both sides of the table.
The story
I learned leadership where it can’t be faked.
I started as an Australian Army officer – four years through ADFA and Duntroon, then leading soldiers in an artillery regiment before specialising in training and development. The Army settles one question early: teams don’t hold together because of plans or values statements. They hold together because of how they’re led, especially when things get hard. Everything I’ve done since has been a longer answer to that.
I’ve spent 25 years on both sides of this work. Half of it consulting: I started at Accenture, and today my clients include CPB Contractors, CIMIC Group, UGL, Databricks and Novigi. Half of it inside: OD and learning leadership at Woodside, King & Wood Mallesons and NBN Co, then the top people job three times – Chief People Officer at Sparke Helmore, Laing O’Rourke and IRT Group, where I spent six years inside one of Australia’s largest aged care providers.
The CPO chair taught me the thing this practice is built on: when I went looking for help, I never wanted more thinking from inside my own industry. I wanted the best of what was working everywhere else, translated by someone who understood my floor. That’s the service I now provide, in both directions.
The training
Then I went and got the science.
Experience tells you what’s broken. It doesn’t automatically tell you how people change – so I’ve spent years training in the disciplines that do. I’m an IECL-accredited executive coach, trained in vertical development – Robert Kegan’s adult development theory and the Immunity to Change method – which is about how a leader’s whole way of making sense grows, not just their skill set. And I’m an accredited teacher of effortless meditation, because a leader’s steadiness under pressure isn’t a technique – it’s a trained state, and I teach it.
Assessment runs through everything I do, held lightly. I’m accredited across Hogan HLF and 360, The Leadership Circle Profile, the Triple Goal Leadership Growth Profile, Genos Emotional Intelligence, Saville Wave and DISC. The instrument is the mirror, never the program.
The through-line: leaders don’t change because they hear a good model. They change when their inner state can hold the new behaviour on a bad day. I’ve trained at both levels, and the work happens at both levels.
Training and accreditations, in full
- Certified Genos Emotional Intelligence Practitioner (360 assessment and debrief)
- IECL-accredited executive coach
- Vertical development practitioner – Kegan adult development, Immunity to Change
- Flow Research Collective – Coaching accreditation in the neuroscience of peak performance
- The Leadership Circle Practitioner
- Hogan Leadership Forecast (HLF) and Hogan 360
- Triple Goal Leadership Growth Profile 360
- Certified SLII Facilitator
- DISC Advanced certified
- Saville Wave Practitioner
- Accredited teacher of effortless meditation, and inner-growth coaching (400 hours)
- Post Graduate Diploma in Management, People & Performance – Ashridge / Hult International Business School
Why the practice is small
Two or three organisations. On purpose.
Culture work is presence work. I’m in the room with your leaders, in the rhythm with your sites, and available when the hard week happens – and that doesn’t scale past a handful of organisations without becoming the thing I left behind: a program with a famous name on the brochure and a stranger in the room. So the practice stays small. When you work with Culture Crunch, you work with me.
Why this work, and why it matters.
The places I work are the ones where leadership has real consequences – a care floor, a construction site, a control room, a client team under pressure. When the people doing that work have leaders who make it sustainable, everyone downstream feels it: the resident, the site, the client, the ones you couldn’t afford to lose. That’s the point of all of it.
An email to me, not a funnel. campbell@culturecrunch.io