The Size9 team designs bespoke experiences to meet individual client needs. The following case studies provide you with an idea of what is possible and get your creative juices flowing.
Size9’s expertise is in designing the program, crafting the experience and selecting the partner to ensure your goals are met and that the skills developed are anchored, productive and long lasting. Previous Programs, together with excerpts of testimonials, include:
BP CFO and Finance Leadership Team
Need/Focus: Leadership Development, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Empathy and Insight
Immersive Experience: Interviewing Community Leaders from Migrant/Refugee groups and working with children from Fitzroy Adventure Playground
Testimonial: Recently Anne Fildes and Clare Walton, worked with our team to create a truly unique leadership experience. My Finance Leadership team met with a number of community leaders – all with different backgrounds – some of whom had faced unimaginable hardship – all of whom had chosen to use their experiences to emerge as strong leaders within their community here in Australia. These were stories of real leadership. The day helped my team really understand what leadership and choice are all about. The personal one on one experience of meeting and speaking with these leaders gave us a different understanding of leadership. A meaningful, powerful, fun way to really ‘get’ diversity and leadership. Thanks Anne and Clare.
Brooke Miller, CFO, BP Australia. NZ
Worksafe, Human Resources Team
Need/Focus: Team Effectiveness, Customer Centricity, Emotional Intelligence
Immersive Experience: Working with prisoners from the Judy Lazarus Transition Centre around work experience and employment opportunities
Testimonial: Workplace development/wellbeing initiatives are known to give greatest payback when carried out at team level. The challenge is to deliver programs that are innovative and engaging for employees while also hitting the mark in terms of cost effectiveness and the particular needs of the team/business. Our first experience working with Anne hit the mark on all levels. In hindsight Anne skillfully guided us on a significant leap into a complex development journey. Our team was coached well out of our comfort zone, which in the end led to real & significant growth, all centered around a day of meaningful and rewarding work with the team at the Judy Lazarus Transition Centre. A rich learning experience was had by all that attended due primarily to the time, planning and preparation provided by Anne, in her role as facilitator. Well done Anne, and thanks from our team for all your work in the lead up and on the day to create an environment for the magic to happen.
Dale Nisson
Manager Health, Safety and Wellbeing
State Revenue Office, Emerging Leaders Program
Need/Focus: Customer Centricity, Leadership Development,
Immersive Experience: Hosting refugees (via Catholic Care) to a shared lunch and culture at the Koori Heritage Trust.
Verbal testimonial available on request.
Port Philip Council, Emerging Leaders Program
Need/Focus: Leadership Development, Customer Centricity
Immersive Experience: Interviewing Community Leaders, shared traditional African Lunch, Panel Session (African Leaders, Helping Hoops Program, Jesuit Social Services)
Verbal testimonial available on request.
Bayside Council, Organisational Development Team
Need/Focus: Team effectiveness, Customer Centricity,
Immersive Experience: Impact Project with children from Sacred Heart School, Fitzroy and Cubbies (Fitzroy Adventure Playground)
Verbal testimonial available on request.
Family Life – Selected leaders and Service Delivery team
Need/Focus: Cultural Competence, Customer Centricity
Immersive Experience: Storyteller Cultural Competence game, Walk on Country, panel with Aboriginal Elders (Boonwurrung Foundation)
Verbal testimonial available on request.
Anglicare – Reconciliation Action Plan committee
Need/Focus: Cultural Competence, Diversity, Customer Centricity
Immersive Experience: Storyteller Cultural Competence game, art experience with Aboriginal artists
Verbal testimonial available on request.
Jetstar – Leadership Development Program
Need/Focus: Leadership Development, Emotional Intelligence
Immersive Experience: Hosting an art experience with children from Fitzroy Housing Commission Flats (Homework Club)
Testimonial: I asked Anne and the team to create an experience which provided an experiential learning experience within an intense week long leadership program. Anne and the team created a fantastic event which worked with disadvantaged children at the Fitzroy Community Flats.
The event turned out to be the highlight of the program for most of the participants (all senior leaders) as it gave them a chance to give back while also re-enforcing the learning around emotional intelligence from the formal part of the program.
I strongly recommend an immersive experience if you want to bring alive and add positivity to a formal leadership program.
Nadine Castle
Former OD and HR Manager, Jetstar.
Other testimonials
The opportunity to work with the BP Elite team was invaluable for the students in my class. The chance to engage with people who show an obvious interest in them and their lives is a wonderful chance for them to recognise that people outside of their immediate realm care about them; this is in turn, boosts their self-esteem and sense of self-worth. Meeting with new people means that they can learn about social nuances in the most effective method of learning, learning by living.
Conversations such as introducing themselves and answering questions about their lives help them to develop their speaking and listening skills. Communication is key to success and the more children are exposed to situations where they are required to communicate effectively and appropriately, the more they learn about how to operate in the world.
The learning in an experience like the one we had on Friday carries on into their lives. We spent the week leading up looking at recipes and learning about the elements of a recipe and how to use them. They will spend this week reflecting on the experience. They are using photos from the day and describing what they are doing in each picture. This is helping build their vocabulary as they name different ingredients. It also allows them to learn basic language structures. Beyond this, it gives them the chance to reflect on the day and relive the experience and the excitement they felt.”
Kate McIntosh, Sacred Heart
BP Elite Corporate Social Responsibility Team
Need/Focus: Customer Centricity, Teambuilding, Corporate Volunteering Strategy
Immersive Experience: Cooking class with Children from Sacred Heart School, Fitzroy
Anne facilitated a workshop to help establish the goals for our Volunteering & Community committee at BP Elite. With her forward thinking and broad-minded ideas, we achieved tangible outcomes to bring our program to life.
Anne is an experienced, passionate and insightful facilitator, the whole team left the workshop feeling inspired and energised.
Neisha Curran, Newcrest Mining
Lion, Manufacturing Team
Need/Focus: Team Effectiveness, Corporate Volunteering
Immersive Experience: Teaching project and excursion with Sacred Heart Primary School and Cubbies (Fitzroy Adventure Playground)
Verbal testimonial available on request