I’ve spent my career working at the intersection…
Where leadership behaviour meets team performance. Where how a leader shows up shapes what gets said and what gets withheld. Where the gap between a leader's intention and their team's experience quietly determines how well the organisation performs.
Leaders who are willing to examine how they're showing up, and teams that are ready to reclaim their voice, produce something qualitatively different from what either could achieve without the other.
I work with senior leaders, founders and leadership teams across Melbourne and nationally.
MY STORY:
I'm a people, behaviour and organisational specialist, and a CPA. It’s a unique background for a leadership coach and consultant.
Early in my career, I held senior leadership and GM roles across finance, sales, operations and integrated planning. Driven by a lifelong passion for human behaviour, development and psychology, I then made a deliberate, intentional pivot that included ten years running my own leadership coaching and facilitation practice and five years in-house leading organisational change, leadership, culture and capability development before launching Intersect Co.
The through-line of all the work I’ve done consistent interest in why smart, capable leaders produce outcomes they don't intend and what it takes to change that.
I work with two proprietary models that I’ve developed, The Attuned Leader Model and The PACE Performance Alignment
I developed The Attuned Leader Model because the frameworks I encountered couldn't simply explain the mechanism I kept seeing: the specific ways a leader's deliberate or reactive state, and their challenge/support expression, was creating or inhibiting the conditions for performance. The model is the result of that work.
I also work with the PACE Performance Alignment Diagnostic, a structured assessment across Purpose, Architecture, Capability and Execution. It shows exactly where alignment is impacting performance and growth, and gives you the 90-day plan to fix it. The Attuned Leader Model looks at the leader. PACE looks at the business system around them. Often, they're revealing the same root cause from two different angles.
The people I work with now understand that the biggest lever for growth, scale and profit is their people, not as a nice-to-have, but as the most powerful driver of performance they have.
About Faith: questions, answered
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Faith Styles is a Melbourne-based leadership coach, facilitator and organisational development consultant, and the founder of Intersect Co. She developed the Attuned Leader Model and the PACE Performance Alignment Diagnostic, and works with senior leaders, founders and leadership teams across Australia.
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Faith is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and a CPA. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from La Trobe, a Diploma of Leadership and Management, a Diploma of Life Coaching and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment. She is accredited in Hogan 360 and the Hogan Leadership Profile, Korn Ferry Leadership Architect, Extended DISC and HPTA, and is an NLP practitioner.
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More than 20 years across finance, sales, general management and people development, and more than 1,200 hours of leadership coaching. She spent a decade in senior commercial roles at Foster’s and Treasury Wine Estates, led enterprise capability and culture at South East Water, and has coached more than 200 leaders across many industries.
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Warm and direct. Faith looks past the surface problem to what’s really driving it, and stays alongside leaders while they work through it. She’ll tell you plainly what she sees, not what you want to hear.
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Because performance problems show up in both the numbers and the people. Faith has carried budgets, run sales teams and led culture work inside a large organisation, so she reads a business through both. Most people who can read your numbers can’t read your team; Faith does both.