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“Based on deep science and research, our courses are designed to change leaders – and your business – for the better”
Dominique Powrie,
DDI
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Headquarters:
Level 6/107 Mount St, North Sydney, NSW 2060
Year founded:
1970
Number of employees:
1000
Phone:
1800 035 604
Email:
info.au@ddiworld.com
Website:
LinkedIn:
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As Managing Director for DDI Australia, Dominique is a highly-skilled executive coach, facilitator and leadership development consultant with a compelling commercial background gained in senior HR and General Management roles leading functions and businesses in a variety of industries in Australia and across the Asia Pacific region.
Having led teams in ASX and NYSE listed companies, in large venture capital organisations, national retail businesses, and boutique consulting firms, Dominique has played an instrumental role in business acquisitions, integration, and operated in complex, culturally diverse environments experiencing fast-paced change and disruption. This comprehensive track record of expertise positions Dominique as a committed partner where she can deeply relate to her clients’ challenges.
With an engaging and authentic style, Dominique is passionate about changing mindsets and empowering leaders in the face of complexity they experience every day. An avid speaker, Dominique heads the Women in Leadership Practice for DDI Australia where she collaborates with organisations and industry associations to design and deliver keynote speeches, conference presentations and workshops with the aim of uplifting and supporting the success of female leaders and their sponsors.
Managing Director
Dominique Powrie
As General Manager, Sophia leads the DDI Australia business strategy, while serving as a trusted client advisor.
Since starting with DDI in 2005, Sophia has held a range of consulting, client management and leadership roles. She has led the design and implementation of some of DDI Australia’s largest and most innovative talent management and leadership development solutions across a range of industries, for both local and global clients.
Sophia’s perceptive, collaborative and pragmatic style positions her as an excellent partner. She is driven by creating meaningful and impactful experiences for leaders that equip them with the skills to navigate complexity, inspire others and ultimately improve their lives both at work and at home.
General Manager
Sophia Andritsos
Steph leads the DDI Australia consulting team in her role as Managing Consultant. She has deep technical expertise and experience across diverse industries in conceptualising and developing solutions that build leadership capability.
With proven success across 15 years of talent management consulting, Steph enjoys working closely with DDI clients to understand the complexity and challenges of their unique business environments and crafting solutions that drive business impact.
Steph adopts a pragmatic, collaborative, insightful and hands-on approach in designing and implementing leadership initiatives. She is passionate about helping leaders continue to strengthen the evergreen skills of communication, listening and coaching which are critical to developing authentic and insightful leaders ready to combat future challenges.
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Steph Fergusson
For the second year running, Shielded Insurance Brokers has claimed the number-one spot among IB’s Top Brokerages. In 2020, it was record-setting growth that drove the company’s impressive success. This year, says managing director Stuart Brady, the key ingredient behind the win is the Shielded culture. Brady is proud of the shared vision for constant improvement across all aspects of the business. “We are thrilled to take out the win again, and it’s hats off to the team for their hard work over the past year,” he says.
Julie Hogan
Director, Culture and Client Success
With over 20 years of experience – and passion – Julie leads a multitude of functions that drive DDI Australia’s success. Her focus is always on supporting associates and clients in their leadership growth endeavours by creating alignment between what organisations need to achieve and how they do this through their best asset – their people.
With customer centricity as her driving force, Julie and her dedicated teams provide exceptional participant and candidate experiences throughout leadership programs and assessment simulations with the ultimate goal of igniting leadership insight and behaviour change.
Julie’s unwavering enthusiasm in showcasing emerging talent is evidenced in her leadership and partnership with The Australian Financial Review BOSS Young Executives of the Year. Now in its 19th year, this exciting program has uncovered over 100 of Australia’s most successful young executives. Julie is also a judge in the Charlie Bell Scholarship for Future Leaders program in partnership with McDonalds Australia, which sources and promotes Australia’s future young leaders.
Director, Culture and Client Success
Julie Hogan
Steph Fergusson
Managing Consultant
Over the course of 12 years at DDI, Matt has partnered with hundreds of organisations to develop exceptional leaders who create business impact by raising the performance of their teams. He does this by working with clients to understand their business imperatives and developing solutions that prepare leaders to achieve those priorities.
In his current role, Matt manages a team of leadership advisors who consult with HR executives to map out a leadership strategy for their organisations – and execute on that strategy. Prior to this, Matt contributed to the development of DDI’s emerging leader training programs and day-in-the-life leadership simulations.
Matt enjoys immersing himself in the full scope of key client projects, from designing an approach fit for a complex global rollout, to identifying the perfect personnel to work with a group of leaders, to measuring the impact leaders are making on their teams and organisations.
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Matt Collins
Barry Regan
Senior Engineering Underwriter
Chris Christon
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Large Commercial Group
Stephen Swartley
Chief Underwriting Officer and Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance
Micah Ponto
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Financial Services
Barry Regan has over 35 years’ experience in the Australian insurance industry following 15 years of trade experience gained in the electrical and refrigeration sectors. He has always worked in engineering and contact work for corporations and SME insurance fields, maintaining an active relationship with broking partners. He joined Miramar in 2018 to lead the engineering portfolio in partnership with Zurich.
Senior Engineering Underwriter
Barry Regan
Stephen Swartley is the chief underwriting officer and senior vice president of executive assurance at Arch Insurance. He has over 20 years of experience in management liability and product line expertise in directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, fidelity, kidnap and ransom and cyber liability. Prior to joining Arch Insurance in June 2009, he served in a variety of underwriting and managerial positions in management liability at The Hartford and as an underwriter at Reliance National. Swartley holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Chief Underwriting Officer and Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance
Stephen Swartley
Chris Christon is a senior vice president at Arch Insurance where he oversees the large commercial group and transactional risk portfolio nationally. Christon has nearly 20 years of experience specializing in directors and officers, employment practices and fiduciary liability. Prior to joining Arch in 2009, Christon held various roles at Hartford Financial Products. He has a BA in English from Emory University and a JD from Brooklyn Law School.
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Large Commercial Group
Chris Christon
Micah Ponto serves as senior vice president, head of financial services for Arch Insurance, a position he’s held since 2021. He joined Arch Insurance as an assistant vice president in the large commercial department in 2009. His prior roles at Arch Insurance included senior vice president, national manager of the large commercial department, regional vice president – central region, head of employment practices liability and head of the real estate investment trust group. Ponto previously worked at The Hartford in their financial products division, where he focused on management liability risk in both financial institutions and large commercial D&O. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance, investments and banking from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Financial Services
Micah Ponto
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/ddiworld
Website:
ddiworld.com
Email:
info.au@ddiworld.com
Phone:
1800 035 604
Number of employees:
1,000
Year founded:
1970
Headquarters:
Level 6/107 Mount St, North Sydney, NSW 2060
“Based on deep science and research, our courses are designed to change leaders – and your business – for the better”
Dominique Powrie,
DDI
DDI is a global leadership consulting firm dedicated to finding science-based solutions that truly change the lives of leaders and the people they lead.
Innovators at heart, the DDI team creates and implements leadership development programs that deliver top results. Having been in the leadership development industry for over 50 years, they’ve heard every complaint in the book about bad bosses – and know that bad bosses are the number one reason why people leave their job. Recognising that leadership is an incredibly difficult task, DDI’s mission is to help leaders develop the skills that will make them successful at every level of leadership.
At the core of every DDI leadership development program are the Key Principles, focused on building emotional intelligence, driving change and leading in a hybrid environment.
“We have heard from many leaders over the years that our programs have not only transformed their lives at work, but at home too,” Managing Director Dominique Powrie says.
“Based on deep science and research, our courses are designed to change leaders – and your business – for the better.”
DDI has won the gold medal in the Learning & Development category of the AuNZ HR Service Provider Awards 2022 for their newest solution, their leadership development subscription.
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Barry Regan
Senior Engineering Underwriter
Matt Collins
Management Consultant
Steph Fergusson
Managing Consultant
Julie Hogan
Director, Culture and Client Success
Sophia Andritsos
General Manager
Dominique Powrie
Managing Director
Leadership
Micah Ponto serves as senior vice president, head of financial services for Arch Insurance, a position he’s held since 2021. He joined Arch Insurance as an assistant vice president in the large commercial department in 2009. His prior roles at Arch Insurance included senior vice president, national manager of the large commercial department, regional vice president – central region, head of employment practices liability and head of the real estate investment trust group. Ponto previously worked at The Hartford in their financial products division, where he focused on management liability risk in both financial institutions and large commercial D&O. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance, investments and banking from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Financial Services
Micah Ponto
Chris Christon is a senior vice president at Arch Insurance where he oversees the large commercial group and transactional risk portfolio nationally. Christon has nearly 20 years of experience specializing in directors and officers, employment practices and fiduciary liability. Prior to joining Arch in 2009, Christon held various roles at Hartford Financial Products. He has a BA in English from Emory University and a JD from Brooklyn Law School.
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Large Commercial Group
Chris Christon
Stephen Swartley is the chief underwriting officer and senior vice president of executive assurance at Arch Insurance. He has over 20 years of experience in management liability and product line expertise in directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, fidelity, kidnap and ransom and cyber liability. Prior to joining Arch Insurance in June 2009, he served in a variety of underwriting and managerial positions in management liability at The Hartford and as an underwriter at Reliance National. Swartley holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Chief Underwriting Officer and Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance
Stephen Swartley
Barry Regan has over 35 years’ experience in the Australian insurance industry following 15 years of trade experience gained in the electrical and refrigeration sectors. He has always worked in engineering and contact work for corporations and SME insurance fields, maintaining an active relationship with broking partners. He joined Miramar in 2018 to lead the engineering portfolio in partnership with Zurich.
Senior Engineering Underwriter
Barry Regan
Over the course of 12 years at DDI, Matt has partnered with hundreds of organisations to develop exceptional leaders who create business impact by raising the performance of their teams. He does this by working with clients to understand their business imperatives and developing solutions that prepare leaders to achieve those priorities.
In his current role, Matt manages a team of leadership advisors who consult with HR executives to map out a leadership strategy for their organisations – and execute on that strategy. Prior to this, Matt contributed to the development of DDI’s emerging leader training programs and day-in-the-life leadership simulations.
Matt enjoys immersing himself in the full scope of key client projects, from designing an approach fit for a complex global rollout, to identifying the perfect personnel to work with a group of leaders, to measuring the impact leaders are making on their teams and organisations.
Management Consultant
Matt Collins
Steph leads the DDI Australia consulting team in her role as Managing Consultant. She has deep technical expertise and experience across diverse industries in conceptualising and developing solutions that build leadership capability.
With proven success across 15 years of talent management consulting, Steph enjoys working closely with DDI clients to understand the complexity and challenges of their unique business environments and crafting solutions that drive business impact.
Steph adopts a pragmatic, collaborative, insightful and hands-on approach in designing and implementing leadership initiatives. She is passionate about helping leaders continue to strengthen the evergreen skills of communication, listening and coaching which are critical to developing authentic and insightful leaders ready to combat future challenges.
Managing Consultant
Steph Fergusson
With over 20 years of experience – and passion – Julie leads a multitude of functions that drive DDI Australia’s success. Her focus is always on supporting associates and clients in their leadership growth endeavours by creating alignment between what organisations need to achieve and how they do this through their best asset – their people.
With customer centricity as her driving force, Julie and her dedicated teams provide exceptional participant and candidate experiences throughout leadership programs and assessment simulations with the ultimate goal of igniting leadership insight and behaviour change.
Julie’s unwavering enthusiasm in showcasing emerging talent is evidenced in her leadership and partnership with The Australian Financial Review BOSS Young Executives of the Year. Now in its 19th year, this exciting program has uncovered over 100 of Australia’s most successful young executives. Julie is also a judge in the Charlie Bell Scholarship for Future Leaders program in partnership with McDonalds Australia, which sources and promotes Australia’s future young leaders.
Director, Culture and Client Success
Julie Hogan
As General Manager, Sophia leads the DDI Australia business strategy, while serving as a trusted client advisor.
Since starting with DDI in 2005, Sophia has held a range of consulting, client management and leadership roles. She has led the design and implementation of some of DDI Australia’s largest and most innovative talent management and leadership development solutions across a range of industries, for both local and global clients.
Sophia’s perceptive, collaborative and pragmatic style positions her as an excellent partner. She is driven by creating meaningful and impactful experiences for leaders that equip them with the skills to navigate complexity, inspire others and ultimately improve their lives both at work and at home.
General Manager
Sophia Andritsos
As Managing Director for DDI Australia, Dominique is a highly-skilled executive coach, facilitator and leadership development consultant with a compelling commercial background gained in senior HR and General Management roles leading functions and businesses in a variety of industries in Australia and across the Asia Pacific region.
Having led teams in ASX and NYSE listed companies, in large venture capital organisations, national retail businesses, and boutique consulting firms, Dominique has played an instrumental role in business acquisitions, integration, and operated in complex, culturally diverse environments experiencing fast-paced change and disruption. This comprehensive track record of expertise positions Dominique as a committed partner where she can deeply relate to her clients’ challenges.
With an engaging and authentic style, Dominique is passionate about changing mindsets and empowering leaders in the face of complexity they experience every day. An avid speaker, Dominique heads the Women in Leadership Practice for DDI Australia where she collaborates with organisations and industry associations to design and deliver keynote speeches, conference presentations and workshops with the aim of uplifting and supporting the success of female leaders and their sponsors.
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Micah Ponto
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Financial Services
Chris Christon
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Large Commercial Group
Stephen Swartley
Chief Underwriting Officer and Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance
Barry Regan
Senior Engineering Underwriter
Matt Collins
Management Consultant
Steph Fergusson
Managing Consultant
Julie Hogan
Director, Culture and Client Success
Sophia Andritsos
General Manager
Dominique Powrie
Managing Director
Leadership
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/ddiworld
Website:
ddiworld.com
Email:
info.au@ddiworld.com
Phone:
1800 035 604
Number of employees:
1,000
Year founded:
1970
Headquarters:
Level 6/107 Mount St,
North Sydney, NSW 2060
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Micah Ponto serves as senior vice president, head of financial services for Arch Insurance, a position he’s held since 2021. He joined Arch Insurance as an assistant vice president in the large commercial department in 2009. His prior roles at Arch Insurance included senior vice president, national manager of the large commercial department, regional vice president – central region, head of employment practices liability and head of the real estate investment trust group. Ponto previously worked at The Hartford in their financial products division, where he focused on management liability risk in both financial institutions and large commercial D&O. He has a bachelor’s degree in finance, investments and banking from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Financial Services
Micah Ponto
Chris Christon is a senior vice president at Arch Insurance where he oversees the large commercial group and transactional risk portfolio nationally. Christon has nearly 20 years of experience specializing in directors and officers, employment practices and fiduciary liability. Prior to joining Arch in 2009, Christon held various roles at Hartford Financial Products. He has a BA in English from Emory University and a JD from Brooklyn Law School.
Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance, Large Commercial Group
Chris Christon
Stephen Swartley is the chief underwriting officer and senior vice president of executive assurance at Arch Insurance. He has over 20 years of experience in management liability and product line expertise in directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, fidelity, kidnap and ransom and cyber liability. Prior to joining Arch Insurance in June 2009, he served in a variety of underwriting and managerial positions in management liability at The Hartford and as an underwriter at Reliance National. Swartley holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
Chief Underwriting Officer and Senior Vice President, Executive Assurance
Stephen Swartley
Barry Regan has over 35 years’ experience in the Australian insurance industry following 15 years of trade experience gained in the electrical and refrigeration sectors. He has always worked in engineering and contact work for corporations and SME insurance fields, maintaining an active relationship with broking partners. He joined Miramar in 2018 to lead the engineering portfolio in partnership with Zurich.
Senior Engineering Underwriter
Barry Regan
Over the course of 12 years at DDI, Matt has partnered with hundreds of organisations to develop exceptional leaders who create business impact by raising the performance of their teams. He does this by working with clients to understand their business imperatives and developing solutions that prepare leaders to achieve those priorities.
In his current role, Matt manages a team of leadership advisors who consult with HR executives to map out a leadership strategy for their organisations – and execute on that strategy. Prior to this, Matt contributed to the development of DDI’s emerging leader training programs and day-in-the-life leadership simulations.
Matt enjoys immersing himself in the full scope of key client projects, from designing an approach fit for a complex global rollout, to identifying the perfect personnel to work with a group of leaders, to measuring the impact leaders are making on their teams and organisations.
Management Consultant
Matt Collins
Steph leads the DDI Australia consulting team in her role as Managing Consultant. She has deep technical expertise and experience across diverse industries in conceptualising and developing solutions that build leadership capability.
With proven success across 15 years of talent management consulting, Steph enjoys working closely with DDI clients to understand the complexity and challenges of their unique business environments and crafting solutions that drive business impact.
Steph adopts a pragmatic, collaborative, insightful and hands-on approach in designing and implementing leadership initiatives. She is passionate about helping leaders continue to strengthen the evergreen skills of communication, listening and coaching which are critical to developing authentic and insightful leaders ready to combat future challenges.
Managing Consultant
Steph Fergusson
With over 20 years of experience – and passion – Julie leads a multitude of functions that drive DDI Australia’s success. Her focus is always on supporting associates and clients in their leadership growth endeavours by creating alignment between what organisations need to achieve and how they do this through their best asset – their people.
With customer centricity as her driving force, Julie and her dedicated teams provide exceptional participant and candidate experiences throughout leadership programs and assessment simulations with the ultimate goal of igniting leadership insight and behaviour change.
Julie’s unwavering enthusiasm in showcasing emerging talent is evidenced in her leadership and partnership with The Australian Financial Review BOSS Young Executives of the Year. Now in its 19th year, this exciting program has uncovered over 100 of Australia’s most successful young executives. Julie is also a judge in the Charlie Bell Scholarship for Future Leaders program in partnership with McDonalds Australia, which sources and promotes Australia’s future young leaders.
Director, Culture and Client Success
Julie Hogan
As General Manager, Sophia leads the DDI Australia business strategy, while serving as a trusted client advisor.
Since starting with DDI in 2005, Sophia has held a range of consulting, client management and leadership roles. She has led the design and implementation of some of DDI Australia’s largest and most innovative talent management and leadership development solutions across a range of industries, for both local and global clients.
Sophia’s perceptive, collaborative and pragmatic style positions her as an excellent partner. She is driven by creating meaningful and impactful experiences for leaders that equip them with the skills to navigate complexity, inspire others and ultimately improve their lives both at work and at home.
General Manager
Sophia Andritsos
As Managing Director for DDI Australia, Dominique is a highly-skilled executive coach, facilitator and leadership development consultant with a compelling commercial background gained in senior HR and General Management roles leading functions and businesses in a variety of industries in Australia and across the Asia Pacific region.
Having led teams in ASX and NYSE listed companies, in large venture capital organisations, national retail businesses, and boutique consulting firms, Dominique has played an instrumental role in business acquisitions, integration, and operated in complex, culturally diverse environments experiencing fast-paced change and disruption. This comprehensive track record of expertise positions Dominique as a committed partner where she can deeply relate to her clients’ challenges.
With an engaging and authentic style, Dominique is passionate about changing mindsets and empowering leaders in the face of complexity they experience every day. An avid speaker, Dominique heads the Women in Leadership Practice for DDI Australia where she collaborates with organisations and industry associations to design and deliver keynote speeches, conference presentations and workshops with the aim of uplifting and supporting the success of female leaders and their sponsors.
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“Leaders need to constantly grow. That’s why we constantly research, innovate and create leadership development experiences that enable leaders in any organisation to be their best selves”
Dominique Powrie,
DDI
Ultimately, no one knows what the future holds. There will be days when leaders don’t know what hit them. But leaders need to quickly adapt and learn to guide their organisations in the right direction. DDI’s leadership development subscription includes everything needed to create flexible, personalised blended learning experiences for the right moment, when leaders need it most. This ensures that leaders are always prepared, no matter what life throws at them.
“Our strategy is to make leadership development a way of work,” Powrie says. “Leadership development can’t be ‘one and done.’ Leaders need to constantly grow. That’s why we constantly research, innovate and create leadership development experiences that enable leaders in any organisation to be their best selves.”
“Being listed as a service provider of choice for our leadership development subscription is an honour and a testament to the impact of our work for both leaders and their organisations.”
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An innovator at heart, leadership expert DDI World has dedicated itself to finding science-based solutions that truly change the lives of leaders and the people they lead.
Founded in 1970, DDI World creates and implements leadership development programs that deliver top results. Having been in the leadership development industry for over 50 years, DDI World has heard every complaint in the book about bad bosses – and it knows that bad bosses are the number one reason why people leave their job. DDI World also recognises that leadership is an incredibly difficult task, and so its mission is to help leaders develop the skills that will make them successful at every level of leadership.
DDI World’s leadership development strategy is based on its Key Principles. These work on everything from building emotional intelligence to driving change and leading from a virtual environment.
“We have heard from many leaders over the years that our courses have not only transformed their lives at work, but at home,” team leader Sheridan Nielson says.
“Based on deep science and research, our courses are designed to change leaders – and your business –for the better.”
DDI World has won the gold medal for the Learning & Development category at the AuNZ HR Service Provider Awards 2022. According to Nielson, leadership is a constantly developing area, and so DDI World’s courses are constantly innovating and changing with the times to address the biggest challenges that leaders face today.
“Leaders need to constantly grow. That’s why we constantly research, innovate and create leadership development experiences that enable leaders
in any organisation to be their best selves”
Dominique Powrie,
DDI
An innovator at heart, leadership expert
DDI World has dedicated itself to finding science-based solutions that truly change the lives of leaders and the people they lead.
Founded in 1970, DDI World creates and implements leadership development programs that deliver top results. Having been in the leadership development industry for over 50 years, DDI World has heard every complaint in the book about bad bosses – and it knows that bad bosses are the number one reason why people leave their job. DDI World also recognises that leadership is an incredibly difficult task, and so its mission is to help leaders develop the skills that will make them successful at every level of leadership.
DDI World’s leadership development strategy is based on its Key Principles. These work on everything from building emotional intelligence to driving change and leading from a virtual environment.
“We have heard from many leaders over the years that our courses have not only transformed their lives at work, but at home,” team leader Sheridan Nielson says.
“Based on deep science and research, our courses are designed to change leaders – and your business –for the better.”
DDI World has won the gold medal for the
Learning & Development category at the AuNZ HR Service Provider Awards 2022. According to Nielson, leadership is a constantly developing area, and so DDI World’s courses are constantly innovating and changing with the times to address the biggest challenges that leaders face today.
“Leaders need to constantly grow. That’s why we constantly research, innovate and create leadership development experiences that enable leaders in any organisation to be their best selves”
Dominique Powrie,
DDI