WELCOME TO STERLING BLACK

Igniting transformation
through people.

We mean business.

A specialist leadership and organisation transformation firm.

30+ years of experience supporting bold
leaders to transform performance.

Our areas of expertise:

Board Effectiveness

We understand the essential relationships and responsibilities that Board members hold. We can articulate the practical actions and provide tools that enable Boards to get the best from themselves and govern organisational success.

CEO and Executive Assessment

Sterling Black provides genuinely independent and objective CEO and Executive assessments. We are not a search firm, we are a specialist assessment house.

CEO and Executive Coaching and Development

We bring the best techniques to build a CEO or Executives leadership capability, onboard a new CEO or Executive or help the whole leadership group improve performance.

CEO Succession

We have a robust methodology that helps you understand your future leadership needs and the readiness of your bench to become the CEO or for Board members to become the Chair. We improve the capability of your leaders so that you get the most out of your current and future leadership.

Executive Team Effectiveness

We help you maximise the effectiveness of your Board and provide custom solutions that build the Boards ability to get the best from themselves to govern effectively and lead the culture change within the organisation.

High Performance Organisation

Everyone knows how important a high-performance culture and performance operating system is, but few achieve and sustain it. We make sure you avoid the five failure modes and get the change you need.

 Performance Culture

We develop organisations that are truly high performing, transforming and fulfilling for your people, by building change leadership adapting the operating system and bringing in hard measurement.

Inspiring Communication

We build the ability of your Board, CEO and Executive leaders to inspire the organisation using spoken, written, and effective meeting communications.

Custom Learning

Change happens when it becomes a critical mass of leaders who choose to make a change. We play a key role in focussing, designing, and delivering custom learning that facilitates leadership uplift and change.

Board Effectiveness

We understand the essential relationships and responsibilities that Board members hold. We can articulate the practical actions and provide tools that enable Boards to get the best from themselves and govern organisational success.

CEO and Executive Assessment

Sterling Black provides genuinely independent and objective CEO and Executive assessments. We are not a search firm, we are a specialist assessment house.

CEO and Executive Coaching and Development

We bring the best techniques to build a CEO or Executives leadership capability, onboard a new CEO or Executive or help the whole leadership group improve performance.

CEO Succession

We have a robust methodology that helps you understand your future leadership needs and the readiness of your bench to become the CEO or for Board members to become the Chair. We improve the capability of your leaders so that you get the most out of your current and future leadership.

Executive Team Effectiveness

We help you maximise the effectiveness of your Board and provide custom solutions that build the Boards ability to get the best from themselves to govern effectively and lead the culture change within the organisation.

High Performance Organisation

Everyone knows how important a high-performance culture and performance operating system is, but few achieve and sustain it. We make sure you avoid the five failure modes and get the change you need.

Performance Culture

We develop organisations that are truly high performing, transforming and fulfilling for your people, by building change leadership adapting the operating system and bringing in hard measurement.

Inspiring Communication

We build the ability of your Board, CEO and Executive leaders to inspire the organisation using spoken, written, and effective meeting communications.

Custom Learning

Change happens when it becomes a critical mass of leaders who choose to make a change. We play a key role in focussing, designing, and delivering custom learning that facilitates leadership uplift and change.

Our Partners:

Next Capital
KPMG
Commonwealth Bank
IBM
ICG
Goldman Sachs
Citibank
Telstra
Johnson & Johnson
hp
J.P. Morgan
Rio Tinto