
Kia ora, I’m Judith Jamieson.
Leadership today is more complex than it has ever been. Senior leaders are navigating constant change, increasing expectations, technological disruption, and pressure to deliver results at pace. In that environment, even highly capable leaders can find their thinking becoming crowded and reactive.In my experience, leadership rarely breaks down because of a lack of intelligence, experience, or strategy. It falters when pressure clouds clarity.
At Thriveatwork, I help leaders and executive teams cut through that noise and then translate clarity into measurable performance. My work is grounded in a simple but powerful principle: when thinking becomes clearer, decisions improve, alignment strengthens, and execution accelerates.
This is not abstract mindset coaching. It is practical, commercially grounded leadership work that starts with clarity and delivers real outcomes.
When leaders operate from clarity, they make sharper decisions, communicate with steadiness, align their teams more effectively, and create ownership of the outcomes. Clarity is the starting point, but performance is always the outcome.
Aroha
Judith
WHY WORK WITH ME

Leaders Who Want to Think Clearly and Lead Decisively
I work with CEOs and senior leaders who are carrying significant responsibility and want to think clearly under pressure. One-to-one executive coaching focuses on strengthening judgement, reducing unnecessary mental interference, and building the steadiness required to lead in complex environments. As clarity increases, confidence and decisiveness follow.
Our work centres on real, current leadership challenges. This may include navigating board expectations, leading through growth or restructuring, managing senior team dynamics, handling difficult performance conversations, or making high-stakes strategic decisions. Rather than simply analysing problems, we examine how your thinking is shaping your experience of them. As reactive patterns settle, clearer options become visible and better decisions emerge.
Alongside clarity work, we strengthen practical leadership disciplines. This includes clarifying priorities, sharpening decision-making frameworks, improving how you hold accountability, and ensuring your time and attention are aligned with what matters most. The coaching is reflective but grounded, focused not only on insight but on translating that insight into decisive action.
Leaders often describe the impact as feeling lighter, steadier, and more focused. The role has not changed, but their experience of leading it has. From that place, performance improves naturally.

High-Performing Teams Are Built by Multipliers® Leaders
I help leaders shift from unintentionally diminishing the intelligence of their teams to consistently multiplying it. Many capable leaders over-direct, rescue, rework, or hold too much themselves, often with good intent. Over time, this reduces ownership, slows decision-making, and limits the capability of the team.
This work begins by identifying where intelligence is currently being underutilised. Through structured workshops, facilitated discussions, and real-time application to live business issues, leaders learn to recognise diminishing patterns in meetings, delegation, and performance conversations. We then develop practical Multipliers® disciplines, such as creating ownership through better questions, clarifying decision rights, strengthening accountability, and setting clear expectations without micromanaging.
Alongside this behavioural shift, I support organisations with structured leadership development and team performance initiatives. This includes strengthening accountability frameworks, clarifying roles and interdependencies, facilitating team charters, and supporting organisational design conversations during growth or change. The aim is to ensure that leadership behaviour, structure, and strategy are aligned.
Clarity without execution does not create results. Execution without clarity creates noise and friction. This work integrates both, building a leadership culture where people think for themselves, contribute fully, and take ownership of outcomes.

Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution at the Top
Executive team misalignment rarely announces itself loudly. It shows up in slower decisions, duplicated effort, cautious conversations, and functional priorities that quietly compete rather than reinforce one another. Over time, capable leaders begin working harder while the organisation moves more slowly.
I bring over two decades of experience working with senior leaders in complex, high-accountability environments. My approach is both reflective and commercially grounded. I do not run generic team-building sessions. I work with real strategic issues, real tensions, and real constraints that are affecting performance.
Clients value the balance I bring: calm but direct, reflective but practical. The result is not simply a more harmonious team, but a more focused, disciplined and aligned leadership group capable of moving the organisation forward with confidence.

New Book Coming Soon: The Noise-Cancelling Leader
How the Best Leaders Cut through the Noise and Lead with Clarity
My upcoming book, The Noise-Cancelling Leader, distils over two decades of executive coaching into a clear proposition: performance improves when leaders reduce mental interference and lead from clarity. The book blends real-world coaching stories with practical insight to help leaders navigate pressure, complexity, and change with steadiness and confidence.
OUR SERVICES

Leadership Team Alignment
I work with executive and senior leadership teams through a combination of diagnostics, facilitated offsites, and follow-through sessions. The process typically begins with one-to-one intake conversations to understand individual perspectives, tensions, priorities, and constraints.
From there, I design and facilitate structured team sessions focused on clarifying enterprise priorities, aligning on what matters most, and surfacing the unspoken that may be limiting performance. We work through real strategic issues, clarify decision rights and accountability, strengthen cross-functional interdependence, and address behaviours that create noise at the top.
Where appropriate, I integrate practical frameworks such as Multipliers® leadership and Gallup Strengthsteam. We co-create team charters and agree ways of working for disciplined execution to support sustained team performance. The goal is not team bonding, but improved strategic coherence, cleaner decision-making, and stronger collective accountability.
Follow-up sessions ensure alignment translates into measurable shifts in behaviour and execution, not just a productive offsite conversation.
Executive Coaching (One-to-One)
I work one-to-one with CEOs and senior leaders in structured, confidential coaching engagements, typically over a six to twelve month period. We meet regularly to work through real, live leadership challenges, not theoretical scenarios.
Our sessions focus on strengthening clarity in decision-making, navigating complexity, managing board and stakeholder dynamics, leading executive teams, and handling pressure without becoming reactive. We examine how you are thinking about situations, what assumptions may be shaping your judgement, and where unnecessary mental interference is slowing you down. Alongside this, we work on practical leadership execution, including setting priorities, holding accountability conversations, structuring your time and attention, and strengthening your leadership presence.
Between sessions, leaders apply insights directly to current decisions and conversations. The coaching is grounded in your reality and designed to improve both your thinking and your impact in real time.

Multipliers® Leadership for High-Performing Teams
I am accredited Multipliers® facilitator and coach and work with leaders and teams to shift from well-intentioned but diminishing leadership behaviours to a culture that amplifies capability, ownership, and accountability.
This engagement typically begins with a diagnostic process, which may include leader self-assessment, team feedback, or facilitated discussion to identify where intelligence and talent are being underutilised. We examine real examples of how leadership behaviour is affecting contribution, decision-making, and performance.
Through structured workshops and facilitated conversations, leaders learn to recognise diminishing patterns such as over-directing, rescuing, over-functioning, or unintentionally shutting down contribution. We then introduce practical Multipliers disciplines that can be applied immediately, including creating ownership in meetings, asking better questions, clarifying decision rights, and setting clear expectations while maintaining accountability.
Teams practice these shifts in live scenarios, working through current business challenges rather than simulations. Leaders leave with specific behavioural commitments and practical changes to meeting rhythms, delegation practices, and performance conversations.
Follow-up sessions focus on embedding the changes, reviewing real situations, and strengthening consistency. The aim is not simply to understand the Multipliers model, but to create a high-performance environment where people think for themselves, contribute fully, and take accountability for results.
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Judith Jamieson
Executive Coach and Facilitator
I am a seasoned global senior HR executive with extensive multinational and multi-sector experience, having worked with leading organisations such as Ford and Mars in the UK, World Vision International in Singapore, and most recently providing consultancy to corporates in New Zealand. With deep expertise in Human Resources and General Management, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with diverse people, cultures, and industries. Known for my strategic vision and influential approach, I thrive in helping senior leadership teams create thriving workplaces and drive effective change. My unique, insightful methodology enables me to partner closely with C-suite executives, senior teams, and people leaders to address the core challenges of people management. With over 20 years of experience as an executive coach, I’ve worked with both large and small organisations around the world. I currently serve on the executive coaching panel for World Vision International, supporting coaching for both for-profit and not-for-profit clients. In 2017, I founded Thriveatwork, based in Auckland, New Zealand, where I continue to work with clients locally and globally.
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Recommendations
Pragmatic
I have known Judith for over 12 years, first as a colleague and later as a consultant/coach. Judith has a wide-ranging skillset. She is rare in having a background in both operations and HR so she understands the real-world issues faced by managers in regards to their own performance and in managing people. Judith is empathetic and takes the time to learn about context and drivers. As a coach Judith develops strong personal relationships and brings a lovely mix of pragmatism and care.
Lucy Laitinen -CEO, New Zealand
Leadership
Judith provided 1 on 1 coaching for me for over a year through World Vision's Senior Leadership Development Program. Judith helped to give me a mirror into myself and the stage I was at in my career development. This provided encouragement and a positive challenge in areas where I could continue to grow. She helped me to dig deeper and explore areas in my own leadership where I could take the next steps in my development. Connecting this with practical and tangible tools, such as Multiplier practices, has really helped me to grow as a manger and a leader. I would highly recommend Judith for executive and leadership coaching.
TJ Grant- GM Development, New Zealand
Potential
Judith has played a significant role in the growth and success of many leaders, I am fortunate to be one of them. Bruting is the art of polishing diamonds, and Judith has the skills. The character of polishing diamonds (people) to perfection and in my case was surfacing my strength and working with me to understand and become a better leader. She does it with sincere humility, grace, and dignity. I have had several sessions of coaching and mentoring with Judith, and all the sessions left me with deep thinking about my values and building it up to pursue my personal and professional life. Judith is a people person who genuinely cares, and working with her brings the best out of you. Thank you, Judith, for being a great mentor and coach, and continue to gain from your wisdom, care, and reflection.
Deepesh Thakur- Global Director, Nepal
Empathy
I'm lucky enough to have a mentor and coach with a rare high quality like Judith. After her mentoring, It's lucky to be her peer, and it's a privilege for me not only having a peer but as well mentor and coach, again, something you'll hardly ever have. I love brainstorming with her on organization strategy, business model and operation model, down to discuss about organization development, capability and culture. That is another quality of her, she never hesitate to share her knowledge and supporting others to grow in the team. Judith will be the perfect person you can find if you want to develop your organization and to grow your people.
Mia Marina - Strategy Director, Indonesia
Practical
Judith is a fantastic business coach with a wealth of experience and advice stemming from her years working across both corporate and not-for-profit organisations. Her approach is honest, empathetic and informed, leaving you with practical strategies and work-ons to level up your team management and communication skills. I highly recommend booking with Judith if you want to improve your leadership style, to bring out the best in your work relationships and contribute to a positive and collaborative team culture.
Kim Smith- GM Strategy, New Zealand
Wisdom
When I needed a coach, the first person I considered was Judith. We had worked together on the World Vision Shared Service Programme. At that time I appreciated her business sense and ability to make things happen. She is a generous coach who asks excellent coaching questions. Questions that helps you face up to your reality. She then supports you through the need to change with wisdom, care and sound practical steps. Thank you, Judith. My life is enriched because you are part of it.
Christine Wilke - Change Consultant, South Africa
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