Our Story

About Symes Group

Established in 2009, Symes Group has been designing and delivering people solutions that inspire, engage and foster development in their clients for over fifteen years. Symes Group’s unique approach to learning is focused on realising potential through building confidence, self-awareness and capability building in individuals, teams, cohorts, and organisations.

Symes Group have been a trusted learning provider since 2009 working across multiple industries and sectors with one common goal, to develop people and realise potential. We offer people solutions and learning and development offerings and interventions that are results driven, and skills based, accessible, and relatable. Our learning design is grounded in evidence-based research and our delivery is engaging, interactive, practical, and creative. Symes Group produces expert people solutions and consultation that works collaboratively with organisations to compliment people and learning strategies and objectives, ensuring success at all levels.

Our solutions are evidence based and supported by science for the implementation of behaviour change, goal attainment, self-awareness, and performance enhancement. Symes Group’s solutions are grounded in Facet5, the leading suite of personality driven tools to enhance the validity and measurable success of people development interventions.

Symes Group uses Facet5 to enhance the support to our clients in the full life cycle from recruitment and selection, individual, team and leadership development.

What differentiates Symes Group?

1. Our unique solutions combine creativity, storytelling, performance, coaching psychology, positive psychology, and the science of personality. This produces and delivers world class, state of the art and commercial astute, high impact and innovate leadership solutions. Jessica is the only consultant with her unique combination of qualifications and experience which makes her offerings, skills and results as a consultant, coach and facilitator unparalleled in the industry. 

2. Our unique offering allows us to deliver and engage with our clients personally at every stage of the engagement, from the initial consultation, to design, delivery and post intervention follow up. In summary, the person who engages you at the sales phase will be the person who delivers the solution. This allows us to deliver consistency and quality control that allows our clients to trust that what is discussed is what is delivered. Jessica’s clients trust that she delivers every time and what is delivered is of the highest quality and represents Jessica’s unique qualifications and experience across, coaching psychology, science, creativity and performing arts.

3. In both our workshops/ programs or presentation style delivery methods, Jessica combines business impact with theatrical mastery, ensuring that the learning is entertaining, engaging, and enthusiastic. Jessica’s skill is taking highly academic content and communicating it in a way that connects with her audiences and learning cohorts through accessible storytelling structure, interactive performance, fun and humour. Jessica achieves this while also focusing on supporting individual behaviour change, development, and goal attainment in a no-nonsense, hard-hitting way, with heart and empathy. In a nutshell, there is no boring training workshops here!

 

…Jess’ enthusiasm both energising and inspirational

Jess and I worked together on the delivery of a global management development programme for BT. She and I were on the team that delivered it to the BT Global Services team in Sydney, Australia and then she went on to roll the programme out across the AsiaPacific region. She was very thorough and diligent in her preparation and she facilitated the programme in a wonderfully conversational yet challenging way. It brought out the best in the programme Participants and gave them a memorable learning experience. I found Jess’ enthusiasm both energising and inspirational and it was clear that the Participants did too. I would have no hesitation in recommending her for Leadership and Management Development initiatives.

Executive Coaching

Symes Group's Coaching practice is grounded in evidence based coaching psychology and best practice. Jessica has over a decade of experience and has delivered coaching programs and engagements with Senior Executives from a range of different industries with a range of different goals and needs.
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People Development Programs

Symes Group offers proven professional development programs that put your people at the heart of the learning. We collaboratively assess capability, learning and development objectives to create strategic interventions that inspire, motivate and engage.
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Facet5 Assessment and Development

Symes Group is powered by the science of personality to realise potential. Symes Group's solutions are grounded in Facet5, the leading suite of personality driven tools to enhance the validity and measurable success of people development interventions. Symes Group has a range and variety of science driven reports and tools to enhance self-awareness, capabilities, and skills. Symes Group uses Facet5 to enhance the support to our clients in the full life cycle from recruitment and selection, individual, team and leadership development.
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Accreditations

C.A.R.E Career Coaching An Accredited Certification in Career Coaching Conversations that includes the super skills of conversations, coaching skills and career motivators and drivers. The accreditation includes the essential toolkit of skills, capabilities, models, and theory to deliver 1:1 Career Coaching and three development programs for cohorts of early career, new managers, and established leaders.
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