Yda Gray

I am known as an insightful and adaptive leadership development facilitator and executive coach. I find it very rewarding to help individuals gain self-insight and make meaning of their world so that they can fulfil their true purpose and potential. I have a special interest in evaluating the impact of leadership development on individual, team and organisational performance.

My strengths are my creative, yet strategic approach to learning design and facilitation coupled with empathy, flexibility and loads of energy and drive. My experience in facilitating strategy at senior and executive level has infused my facilitation with a pragmatic style.

I have been privileged to work with teams and leaders up to executive and Board level and gained an in-depth insight into the challenges of leading in the complex, highly competitive and ever changing world of science, technology, academia and applied research for clients such as CSIRO, the University of Adelaide, the University of Melbourne, the Robinson Research Institute, the University of South Australia, etc. I have gained a deep insight into the challenges that individuals in ’high-knowledge’ environments face with regards to influencing, navigating change and managing complexity and ambiguity as they endeavour to translate insights into impact to effect system-wide change through cross-sector, inter-disciplinary collaboration and innovation.

I have worked in the field of education, training and development for over twenty years and have had the privilege of working with corporate and not-for-profit organisations in Australia, The Pacific (for participants from Fiji, PNG, Kiribati, Vanuatu, Samoa, East Timor), South Africa, the UK and the Netherlands across a vast range of industries and sectors.

I have a Master’s Degree in Multicultural Education with a thesis in Multiculturally-sensitive Learning and Development and gained first-hand experience in managing highly talented individuals at a tertiary learning institution in South Africa before entering the world of organisational learning and development in 1999.