Profile - Corporate Wisdom

Barbara Wilby and Campbell Forsyth

Profile

We partner with CEOs, emerging CEOs, leadership teams, and high-potential executives to help them navigate complexity and achieve their full capability.

Barbara Wilby is a leadership transition specialist who is renowned for her fearless insights and practical approach. Following an MBA and an executive career in marketing turnarounds, Barbara founded Corporate Wisdom to offer leading edge ways of helping executives, teams and organisations overcome personal roadblocks and unlock potential capability.

Barbara worked with McKinsey as thought partner, lead coach and facilitator for culture transformation initiatives with top 100 companies.

Corporate Wisdom senior consultant Campbell Forsyth has more than 20 years of experience in supporting and challenging leaders and teams to thrive in complex and demanding environments. He has a unique ability to create the space for leaders to step back and make sense of their personal and organisational challenges and experiences. Helping leaders to surface the insight needed to see their own, their team and the organisation’s potential; distil the impediments to progress and success enablers and developing actions is the work Campbell loves to do.

Combined, Barbara Wilby and Campbell Forsyth offer a powerful blend of experience and applied wisdom to help our clients thrive.

Our programs and offerings

Corporate Wisdom’s CEO2be program So You Want to Be the CEO is a cornerstone for many aspiring CEOs.
Based on 24 years of experience, it offers a results-driven five stage approach that challenges conventional thinking and prepares leaders for the complexities of the CEO role.
Sounding boards for CEOs who need a confidential space.
Our Great Team Blueprint distils our team development experience into a pathway that generates results and a meaningful team environment.
Our high potential leader coaching program is designed to cut through challenges to growth and the derailers that we see in many high potential executives. Leaders emerge with a toolkit that enables them to play to their true strengths and sustainably achieve their biggest capability.
Thought partnering to transform leadership culture
Our pro-bono work for community groups, arts organisations and young people in search of clarity in a sometimes-confusing world.

Clients

Organisations served by Corporate Wisdom include: Ausgrid, Ashurst, ANZ Banking Group, BG UK, Deutsche Australia, Freehills, Insurance Australia Group, John Holland Group, Kellogg, McKinsey Australia and Europe, Nestle, Perpetual Funds Management, Qantas, RBS UK, Snowy Hydro, Transport for New South Wales, Westpac, Woodside Energy, the North West Shelf Venture and Unilever.