Geared for Growth with Josephine Palermo
A few words
History
Our story starts way back, when...
Josephine is a seasoned leader, executive coach and consultant specialising in building strong leaders, teams and culture in organisations, particularly specialsiing in large scale change and transformation. She has worked with 1000s of leaders to help them find untapped potential in their people, processes and systems. With a Ph.D. in Organisational Psychology, she has herself also held leadership roles in both public and private sectors. As Partner in 6 Team Conditions, Josephine’s mission is to put the science of team effectiveness technology in the hands of every leader.
Notably, she led a $6 million program at Australia’s largest telecommunications provider, enhancing technological capabilities for enterprise customers. As a Partner of 6 Team Conditions Australia, and Principal Consultant for Corporate Diversity Pathways, Josephine champions the purposeful shaping of business leadership and strong culture via enabling collaboration and high performance team by team.
Her Amazon Best Seller book, “Rising to Feminine Power: The Lasso of Truth,” and podcast, “Gears, Action, Growth,” reflect her commitment to challenging traditional views on work and fostering a collective approach to leadership.

Director | Geared For Growth
She has vast experience in designing and implementing people and culture strategies across many sectors / industries. Recent programs included driving a new customer advocacy strategy across Telstra Operations 14000 employees and the successful delivery of large digital transformation.
If you would like to work with a company making a real difference to corporate culture and teams, contact us for a FREE discovery call.
Achievements
- Finalist in the Australian Psychological Society Workplace Excellence Award 2015 2015 Workplace Excellence Award for Organisational Design
- Winner of a Quarterly Chief Operating Officer Award in Q3 FY17 and Q1 FY18, Telstra
- Winner of a Quarterly COO Award in Q1 FY14, FY15 and FY16, and Excelerate Award (Individual Performance) FY15
- My published papers on Research Gate
- Gender and Organisational Culture
- Find me on LinkedIn
What they say about us?
We can confidently state that our business guidance has played a pivotal role in our success.

Thank you so much for everything you have done for me over the past few years. You are a real pleasure to work with and in my long career by far the best manager that I have had. You are one of the few people who actually lives what they say and this integrity goes a long way in my book. I actually wondered whether Telstra was big enough for you as you are one of these exceptional people who has the talent to operate on a world stage.

I wanted to express my gratitude to you for helping me through that really tough stage at {company name withheld}. The experience brought up so many different things for me and I certainly wouldn't be feeling how I feel today without your guidance and support. I feel proud that I ended it the way I did and even prouder for making the decision to take myself out of the situation – realising that the environment was not aligned with what I wanted. So thank you.

Just want to say thanks a lot for an amazing and insightful talk during 1st conference yesterday. It was one of the best team and leadership talk I have ever been to in recent times. Thanks a million again!!!

Congratulations Josephine and thank you for joining our Orica family. We are so lucky to have you – your insight, inspiration, commitment, and hard work have already been of immeasurable benefit to our people.

Josephine help us get our people in manufacturing scatter across 30 sites around the globe ready for a large single go live cutting across all aspects of operations, supply chain, maintenance and finance. As an engineering centric part of the organisation, Josephine made sure that we engaged our people's hearts as well in what has turned out to be our most challenging change but ultimately a successful one thanks to Josephine and her efforts.
Questions? We’re here to help
If you would like to work with a company making a real difference to corporate culture and teams, contact us for a FREE discovery call.
