Leadership development | Sydney
For the moments where decisions get made.
Bodkin prepares leaders and leadership teams for the rooms that matter. The board paper. The strategy offsite. The conversation nobody wants to have. The step up into a bigger job.
"If you can't say it in twelve seconds, you have a topic, not a decision."
LogisticsFinancial servicesHigher educationAviationHealthcareLegalCreative agencies
Where it hurts
Where is leadership breaking down?
Nobody buys a workshop because they want a workshop. They buy one because something expensive is going wrong. Start there, and the right intervention usually designs itself.
Board-Ready
"Our leaders present information. Boards want decisions."
Decision narratives and executive presentations that end with a clear ask and survive the hardest question in the room.
Board-Ready →
Leadership Offsites
"We had a great offsite. Nothing changed."
Offsites and conferences designed from stakeholder interviews and finished with named, public commitments that carry a metric and a deadline.
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The Rehearsal Room
"Everyone knows the model. Nobody can do it under pressure."
Professional actors and live scenarios for feedback, difficult conversations, assessment centres and forum theatre. Practice with consequences.
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Executive Coaching
"A strong executive who needs to operate one level up."
One-to-one coaching tied to the real board, the real stakeholders and the real next role. Often the gap isn't capability. It's permission.
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How we work
Decisions, not topics.
Most training is designed around a subject. Ours is designed around something a participant has to decide, commit to or do. If a session can't pass that test, we cut it.
The shape of every hour
5
40 minutes of doing
10
Input
Practice on real material
Debrief
01
Input short. Work long.
If the facilitator talks for ten minutes straight, the design has failed.
02
Write before you talk.
Private writing before any group discussion surfaces what people think, not what's safe to say.
03
Commit in public.
Named commitments to peers, each with a metric and a deadline. Private intentions fade. Public ones get done.
Why an actor?
Presence is a set of choices. Not a personality.
Kevin MacIsaac has worked as a professional actor since 2003, on stage and screen in the UK and then in Sydney. Business role-play was his bridge into facilitation and coaching. It still shapes everything Bodkin does.
Actors are trained to hold attention, read a room, take a note and do it again, better, while people watch. Senior leaders need exactly those skills. Almost nobody teaches them that way.
The craft
In the boardroom
Holding an audience
Holding a board through a forty-minute paper
Reading the room
Reading a director before the objection lands
Taking a note
Taking feedback without losing authority
Rehearsal
Practising the hard conversation before it counts
23
years working as a professional actor, on stage and screen
3
bookings in ten months from one leading Australian business school
5:40
minutes of input to minutes of practice, in every hour we design
Recent work
What changed afterwards.
We don't name clients. The work is described by industry and role.
Logistics | Conference
2
days, around 40 senior leaders
Designed from executive interviews. Every action left the room with a named owner, a metric and a deadline.
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Higher education | MBA
3×
booked in ten months
Storytelling and decision narratives for MBA and Executive MBA cohorts. The latest workshop passed its registration cap.
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Financial services | COO
2nd
block approved
Board preparation coaching for a Chief Operating Officer. The sponsor extended the engagement after the board meeting.
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Creative agency | Leadership team
4
leaders, one rhythm
Individual and team coaching that ended with the studio running its week on an agenda and accountability chart its own leaders built.
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Start here
Twenty minutes. One question.
Where is leadership performance breaking down in your organisation? Tell us, and we'll tell you straight whether we're the right people to fix it.
kevin@bodkintraining.com | 0401 182 506
- You describe the problem.
Not the training you think you need. What's going wrong, and what it's costing. - We tell you straight.
Whether we're the right fit, and if we're not, who might be. - You get a scoped proposal.
Built around the decision or behaviour that has to change.
Bodkin Training Pty Ltd | ABN 90 157 857 095 | Marrickville, Sydney