Unlocking psychological safety and collaboration in the workplace

She has developed and executed strategies that have solved highly complicated problems end-to-end, helping transform and deliver sustainable commercial results in two of Australia’s largest businesses, Wesfarmers and Coles and the global companies of WSP and Allianz. She is experienced in and has a deep understanding of how to influence a business across strategy, operations, finance, people and risk, landing material change in supply chain, capital investment programs (digital and property), demergers, strategic risk management, new business and captive insurance.

She has a unique combination of commercial and cultural transformation experience, speaking the ‘language’ of multiple departments. With exposure to a range of industries and a clinical health background, she has a deep understanding of and expertise in influencing behaviour across and between organisations.

Her commitment to helping organisations create the right environment to unlock value at an individual, team and business level, has led her to write ‘Mentally at Work: Optimising health and business performance through connection’ in 2020, and ‘Shrinking Elephants: Untangling workplace conflict to unlock value for all’ in 2024.

In a complex world, where collaboration will be needed more than ever to solve strategic problems, Genevieve helps organisations have the conversations they need to have, shrinking the elephant in the room, to improve commercial collaboration and the mental health of teams.

Genevieve believes in the value of simplicity, pragmatism, acceptance of clunkiness, finding the right way to talk about the elephants in the room and the importance of sticking to your ‘true north’ to get the right long-term outcome for a business and its people.