Shaun Kenny and Michelle Rushton are trusted by leading organisations around the world to develop exceptional leaders, accelerate team performance and create lasting organisational change.
From ASX100s and multinationals, to government and educational institutions. We've been partnering with some clients for over 10 years.
Decades of experience, proven frameworks and practical insights that help leaders tackle their most important challenges.
Highly engaging leadership programs, conferences, offsites and behavioural simulations that create insight, inspire action and drive lasting change.
Diagnostics, dashboards and AI-powered insights that measure progress - our Leadership Engine platform.
Michelle Rushton and Shaun Kenny are two of Australia's most in-demand leadership experts. Having joined forces over a decade ago to form People of Influence, they have now delivered 2,000+ client engagements with organisations globally.
Michelle and Shaun spend most of their time with executive teams and senior leaders helping them elevate their leadership impact and drive organisational performance. They also work with boards on team development and strategy.
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Develop leaders who influence, inspire and perform at their best.
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Build trust, alignment and accountability to help teams achieve exceptional results.
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Create memorable experiences that align leaders, reinforce culture and inspire action.
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"Shaun's impact goes beyond a workshop – he has a deep interest in lasting impact, and has provided ongoing coaching sessions for our teams, and been a great sounding board for us. Someone with impeccable integrity who is a natural connector, he is one of the most generous people I know with his time and ideas. I just wish we could clone him so even more people can benefit from his talent."
"Michelle's effort, energy and enthusiasm for growing our extended leadership team (through a lens of Enterprise Leadership) was off the charts. I couldn't recommend Michelle more highly and have no doubt Workwear Group will benefit for a long time as a result. Thank you Michelle."
"I have no hesitation recommending Michelle Rushton to any organisation seeking to develop the leadership capabilities of their executive and senior leadership teams. Michelle developed a bespoke program for our Executive Leadership Team at Camden Council after engaging with the team members and running a diagnostic analysis of potential issues and opportunities.
Michelle's engagement and facilitation skills are exceptional and through the People of Influence program I have evidenced a significant uplift in the performance of our executive leadership team."
"We are all still buzzing. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with our day being rated ~9.7/10 by our leaders as an NPS indicator in our post-event survey. Our leaders have also said they walked away feeling energised, connected, inspired and confident in their roles as leaders post the sessions."
"Your facilitation mastery, energy and keen humour were just what we needed to make it a superb event. Some of the team have described it as the best offsite ever!"
"We have had so much positive feedback on the conference, it's very encouraging. Regarding People of Influence specifically, you must be so tired of having people constantly raving about how amazing you are."
"With Shaun it's an experience. He generates an amazing energy in the room. He's able to personalise the issues in an organisation, and also bring to bear a wealth of lessons learned from other industries. A true professional, one of the best facilitators I've ever witnessed, I'll certainly be recommending Shaun to all of my colleagues."
"Whether delivering creative, engaging sessions for an Executive Team or partnering on a 6-month top talent program, Shaun's ability to add value cannot be understated. His knowledge of how to create memorable learning experiences is, in my opinion, second to none."
"Partnering with us right from the start to create an event that really delivered on our goals for a memorable experience. The feedback from our staff was phenomenal, with each and every person walking away inspired and empowered."
People of Influence is the consultancy through which Michelle Rushton and Shaun Kenny deliver leadership programs, team offsites and impactful conferences.
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Leadership Engine is our proprietary platform for diagnostics, dashboards and roadmaps.
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