We've helped leaders to:

  • Clarify and Communicate Vision & Goals 
  • Build Confidence to have Difficult conversations about Performance & Behaviour
  • Obtain buy-in for Important Decisions
  • Build Trust to develop loyalty and strong relationships
  • Using modern tools like Design Thinking to improve customer service 
  • Building strong Teams focused on customer value rather than internal competition.
  • Get the balance right between focusing on Strategic and Operational activities

Why Choose Us

We start with the truth. 

Every engagement begins with a confidential conversation about what's really going on: your strategy, your culture, your people and the sensitivities that make leadership development risky. Our founder, Kristyn Haywood, is a former HR Director, so she understands it quickly and designs around your reality, not a brochure.

We reach every leader in the room. 

Generic training helps the leaders who already want to learn. Our programs are built on real conversations, real scenarios and personal attention, so every leader is seen, understood and works on the challenges they're actually facing, including those who arrived sceptical.

We know the research. 

Our programs draw on current, evidence-based leadership research, deliberately balanced between women and men researchers, and are taught by people who have led themselves. With 30+ years in senior business and HR leadership, we adapt the models to your context in real time, so the learning is immediately useful.

We help it stick. 

Group and 1:1 coaching help leaders follow through, and HR receives a confidential read on the culture, so you can see what's changed and what to do next.

Our Vision and Purpose

Our Vision

To live in a world where going to work inspires people to make a positive contribution to how people live, do business and connect.

Our Purpose

To support Leaders and HR teams in their cultural transformation initiatives by delivering exceptional facilitation, coaching, and leadership education which enables the whole organisation to consistently evolve.

Our Values

Customer collaboration — We partner with you using agile methods to co-create change leadership programs. We focus on measuring our impact by using your business metrics.

Continuous Learning — We are obsessed with keeping up-to-date on evolving leadership research and literature not because we have to but because we need to. It’s our obsession.

Contribution — We are motivated by the higher purpose of developing capable leaders who make a positive difference to their team members, their families, the organisation and greater society.

Courage — We believe in telling the truth, even if it hurts. We balance this with compassion and understanding – the perfect mix to support our leaders to step outside their comfort zone and into the learning zone.

Compassion — We nurture the leaders we work with and don’t judge them. We meet them where they are at on their leadership journey with understanding and humility.

About Kristyn Haywood Founder & Leadership Educator

  

I'm a leadership educator, executive coach and organisational culture specialist with more than 30 years in business and HR, including a decade as an HR professional and executive. I founded People for Success in 2004 to develop values-based leaders, teams and workplaces, and later HealthKind to bring specialist leadership development to healthcare.


Since then I've trained more than 2,000 leaders and coached more than 1,000, across four continents and 30+ industries, including ASX 200 executives. I'm known for an insightful, courageous and compassionate approach, and for reaching every leader in the room.


I hold a Master of Business (UTS) and a Master of Research (Macquarie). My research, The Ethics Penalty, examines how gender shapes whose ethical judgement is recognised as leadership authority. In 2026 I presented it at the British Academy of Management (UK), EIASM (Italy), SASE (France), the International Leadership Association (Canada) and ANZAM (Australia).


In 2020 I was the CEO Magazine's keynote speaker for their International Women's Day luncheon at Sydney's Park Hyatt, speaking about sharing power with rather than using power over others. I also founded Expand Now, a not-for-profit that builds the confidence of people who want to make a difference.


I'm the lead facilitator for all our leadership development programs.

Kristyn featured in CEO Magazine

"Authentic Educator"

"Kristyn is an authentic educator, coach and community leader. Her passion for developing great leaders through her well thought out and planned programs is visible in all the material and activities.

I have worked with Kristyn at various times over the last 12 years, she has had a personal impact on my career and leadership journey. I cannot recommend her enough."

Maria Yarak - Senior Manager - Supply Chain Sourcing, Contracts & Strategy at Boeing

"Unique, Engaging, Encouraging, Honest"

"Kristyn's style is unique, engaging, encouraging and honest. I learnt more from her than in any management training I did before. She is unbelievably knowledgeable and a true Master of her trade. We were taught many useful tools to help manage our teams and workloads while staying true to ourselves and confident in our skills. The coaching sessions were deep and meaningful. They helped me to realise that to be a true leader you must work on your personal development as well as we simply can't separate out our professional identity from our personal identity."

Daniela von Hieber - Research Ethics & Governance ManagerResearch Ethics & Governance Manager

Adventist HealthCare Limited

"Excellent Facilitator"

I was part of a group session facilitated by Kristyn and then received exec coaching from her. On both occasions, our team and me personally gained immensely from Kristyn' skills. She is an excellent facilitator and a coach who is able to make you think about things that matter to your company, team and to you.

I would have no hesitation in recommending Kristyn for any similar leadership services.

Ajay BhatiaAjay Bhatia

CEO - mobile.de | Adevinta Mobility Portfolio| 

Chairman - Olx Brazil