Leadership & Culture Programs

Empowering Change

Welcome to Allan Sicard's Leadership & Workplace Culture Programs

At Allan Sicard, we are passionate about transforming workplaces into environments where every individual thrives. Our programs focus on creating positive, inclusive spaces grounded in Psychosocial Legislation—ensuring that every team member feels supported, valued, and empowered to contribute their best.

Drawing from Allan’s 40 years of service in high-stakes environments, and inspired by insightful conversations from The Courage to Lead Interview Series, our programs offer practical, real-world strategies to foster a workplace culture where people genuinely enjoy coming to work. We don’t just talk about change; we help organisations live it.

why our approach works

  • Grounded in real leadership experiences from some of the most intense crisis situations.
  • Backed by research and actionable strategies that drive organisational transformation.
  • Focused on long-term cultural shifts that enhance both performance and fulfillment.

Explore our case studies of past workshops to see how we’ve helped other organisations thrive.

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Leading With Impact

Core Themes

1. Building Formidable Teams 

We help you nurture cohesive teams that prioritise inclusivity and support, anchored by the latest Psychosocial Legislation. This theme emphasises creating a culture where diverse perspectives are not only welcomed but celebrated as the foundation for success.

2. Enhancing Capabilities Under Pressure

Prepare your teams for the most challenging situations with our immersive scenarios, based on real-life high-pressure environments like hospitals or traffic hubs. Whether it’s a crisis or day-to-day operations, your team will develop the skills to collaborate effectively and maintain composure under pressure

3. Driving Organisational Improvements

We provide in-depth analysis of your workplace dynamics to uncover areas for improvement. Through our consultative process, we work with senior executives to ensure alignment and commitment to positive cultural change. This isn’t about quick fixes—it’s about sustainable, long-lasting transformation.

Tailored Coaching Solutions

Looking for more specific guidance? Allan offers customised leadership coaching options to address your unique organisational needs. Whether you’re focusing on leadership development, boosting team morale, or overhauling workplace culture, we’re here to help you take meaningful steps forward.

Adding Security Expertise

As a Licensed Security Consultant, Allan Sicard brings an extra layer of security and risk management expertise to the table, helping organisations not only thrive culturally but also remain safe and prepared for any challenges.

Program Breakdown

Leadership & Workplace Culture Coaching Programs

Allan’s 3-day leadership program is an immersive experience designed to make a lasting impact on participants. The program allows individuals to discover their leadership potential and immediately influence their workplace culture in a positive, inclusive way. Whether a 1, 2, or 3-day format is chosen, the results are transformative

Day 1: Discovering Leadership & Building Connections
  • Participants receive Allan’s memoir, The Courage to Lead, as a demonstration of the organisation’s investment in its people.
  • We start with three powerful questions, revealing the diverse experiences and strengths within the group. Allan shares his own leadership anecdotes from over 40 years in the police force, illustrating key lessons.
  • The day features guest speakers from The Courage to Lead podcast, offering fresh perspectives on leadership.
  • Afternoon syndicates allow participants to collaborate on a presentation regarding Psychosocial Legislation, a crash course in simplifying complex issues and enhancing group dynamics.
Day 2: Leadership Under Pressure
  • Day 2 begins with revisiting key learnings, woven with more leadership insights from Allan’s career, including real-life crisis management scenarios such as the Mosman Collar Bomb and the Lindt Café Siege. These stories demonstrate the power of preparation and teamwork in the face of immense pressure.
  • Post-lunch, participants engage in a tailored scenario, designed to challenge and test their ability to work together under stressful conditions. This is a high-energy, hands-on session that builds trust and problem-solving skills.
Day 3: Presenting Change to Senior Leadership
  • Syndicates spend Day 3 refining their presentations on workplace improvements, to be delivered to senior management. These presentations often result in real, actionable projects that help to elevate organisational culture.
  • The day concludes with another guest speaker from The Courage to Lead, followed by an interview with a member of the senior management team, where they reflect on leadership through Allan’s signature three opening questions.
  • The program wraps with final words from senior management, a group photo, and a reflection on how each participant is equipped to lead cultural change within their organisation.
Why it works
  • Real-world, high-pressure scenarios help teams build resilience and trust.
  • Guest speakers and syndicate exercises ensure practical takeaways.
  • Presentations to senior leadership make this program actionable and results-driven.
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Trusted by Leaders Like You

Allan is a humble leader with a passion for bringing out the best in others. He has a long and distinguished career in the NSW Police as a Superintendent. Throughout this time Allan used his position power to champion solutions for the most vulnerable – people experiencing homelessness.

I worked with Allan and others to establish a collective impact response to people sleeping rough in Sydney. This saw a significant change in the policies and practices for assertive outreach leading to improved collaboration, more trauma informed responses and better outcomes for people sleeping rough. It also led to significant improvements in police interactions with people sleeping rough. Allan is a leader who creates opportunities for others to lead. He has a track record of championing voices of women and colleagues across all levels to bring a diversity of voices and approaches to problem solving.

He is a natural coach and excellent facilitator. More recently I’ve worked with Allan to run workshops on everything from crime prevention through environmental design to leadership in not for profits. His ability to see and build on peoples strengths, asks great questions and mobilise shared accountability and action make him an excellent go to for leadership support, coaching and mentoring.

Trina Jones
NSW Rental Commissioner

I found the course content to be invaluable. I am still reflecting on the guidance and experiences Alan shared with us as a cohort and the different ways to reflect on not only our teams, our department, but the bigger point of how and why I should reflect on myself as a manger.
I pay note to Alan giving us all the rare insight, to see vulnerability, how each story is always different with a personal cost, and to appreciate those within our leadership teams, and to see the human side of an often seen, black and white organisation. We all have a reason to be a leader, and we all have the story that developed us into the leader we are or will be.
To see the guest speakers, give their own perspectives, again showed a key element we as leadership fail to see all too often, on a day-to-day basis, is that of the human condition, and the way it shapes us to become an effective leader, or a leader who is failing. I found this to be one of the highlights of the cohort and I am sincerely indebted to Alan and Steve, for giving this rare insight, from one leader to another. I would work under Alan or Steve in a heartbeat, as they are the version of a manager, I strive to be, but have yet, a long way to climb. Please pass on my sincerest gratitude to Alan for this opportunity, and my best wishes for his audience and for his message to grow. I will always reflect upon this opportunity, and highly recommended that any Officer, who is, or will be considered by The NSW Sheriff to be a leader within our establishment, that this opportunity be considered and to be put forward to help our leaders of tomorrow to come forth and be the signpost that points the way for our teams tomorrow.
Warm regards,
Acting Commander
NSW Sheriff District

Over the last three weeks it has been fantastic to partner with Allan Sicard to deliver a number of Leadership Development Workshops to over 60 our frontline supervisors, including both current and aspiring leaders. These workshops delved deep into not only what makes great culture in a workplace, but how as leaders not only can we both inspire and empower our people, but drive cultural change every day through our actions, or inaction. With an absolute wealth of knowledge of experiences from fantastic speakers, our current and future leaders have explored the depths of topics such as psychosocial safety in the workplace, what makes good and bad culture, and how they can work together to build a culture of safety, inclusion and empowerment. It was fantastic to have so many great ideas and concepts brained stormed by our cohorts as to how we can all own change and improve our organisation. The passion is real.

Learning and growing from those mistakes are great opportunities to improve, but the true measure of who we are as leaders is the behaviour we are prepared to accept in the workplace. How we make people feel or the way we deal (or not deal), with workplace issues is what we are measured by. We all want to follow people who inspire confidence, who offer the light on the hill moments when everything feels it’s going wrong, and who operate with compassion and empathy; basically people with the courage to lead.  The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. That is what we will all be remembered by. As one participant said, “Leadership is a value to display daily, not just a position you hold”.

 

Daniel Gordon

Deputy Sheriff NSW

I met Allan while working on a complex event, with a wide range of stakeholders and historically ‘unresolvable’ issues. Under Allan’s guidance and through his natural ability to facilitate and mediate, we were able to move forward, solve problems and steer towards positive outcomes.I would suggest Allan’s success in facilitation comes from his ability to make people feel supported and opinions valued, to ask the right questions, to guide difficult topics, and to drive accountability and ownership. I am thrilled that Allan continues to use these skills and can offer wider support through RRR Consulting.

Sarah Young
Project Management
Leadership
Transport and Events

Allan recently completed a fabulous leadership and team cohesion training program to one of my business streams that absolutely hit the mark.
Allan took care from start to finish in making sure that the program design and execution met my brief, and the level of engagement and commitment by the team was great – even the homework tasks!  I can highly recommend Allan, he is skilled in his areas of expertise, personable and has the ability to make sure all participants have a voice without getting off-point – thanks Allan.

Amanda Murray
Senior Manager
Link Wentworth

While good leadership might come naturally to some, great leadership comes from investing time, focus, commitment, and most importantly, trust.

This week, our future leaders benefited from an intensive workshop in leading from the front, and demonstrating resilience and courage when dealing with not just operational challenges, but the challenges of leadership.

Michael Willing APM GAICD, Allan Sicard and Jamie Caldwell shared their experiences and leadership journeys, with our future leaders learning that leadership is about trusting yourself, and how you deal with failure, or bounce back from setback, says more about you than your successful.

Can’t wait to watch our future leaders put these lessons into practice.

Daniel Gordon, Deputy Sheriff NSW

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