The name 10,000 hours comes from the work of K. Anders Ericsson. He wrote the academic paper that Malcolm Gladwell later popularised in his book Outliers. Ericsson’s study found those at the top of their game, masters of their craft, have no less than ten thousand hours of deliberate practice. The most important part of the insight is the deliberate practice being done. We use deliberate practice in all our work.

We love a good old-fashioned chat, we can do this virtual or in person. Contact us here to lock some time in the diary.

Get in touch to discuss your specific needs, availability of our team.  Typically there is a 2-6 week time frame from initial brief to delivery. However, we have been known to save a national conference with 5 days notice and fly interstate that night to recover an offsite that needed support. 

Yes. We have a suite of core capability programs which can de delivered at scale, virtually or face to face. 

Our head office is in Sydney and we have a team of facilitators in each state in Australia. Globally, we deliver in the US, UK, India and Middle East.

Our ability to deliver at scale in our client's context, our rigorous and supportive project management team and our world class facilitators who deliver cutting edge content.

(i)We facilitate group workshops to help our clients achieve productive outcomes.

(ii)We train leaders and their teams in the professional skills they need.

(iii)We provide content and facilitation for large-room conference-style events.

(iv)We design off the shelf and tailored learning solutions

We do all these things in-person, virtual, and hybrid.

Like any other esteemed profession, we believe our field of organisational facilitation and executive education has continuing education requirements. To that end we undertake group supervision, attend our own study groups and group interest groups. We present papers at academic conferences on complexity and group psychotherapy. We read widely and prepare cases for peer review modelled on medical practice. We subject ourselves and each other to regular critical review and feedback by peers and external specialists.

Yes, we are proud to be the exclusive provider of Pod & HIve's suite of team simulations. More information on the games can be found here.

Yes - we regularly deliver keynote sessions at conferences. Current topics include: 21st Century Leadership, Grit, Building a culture of experimentation.