Executive & Leadership Coaching
Individual and team coaching for leaders navigating greater responsibility, transition, complexity and change.
Explore CoachingClarity, confidence and leadership that performs under pressure.
McCann Advisory & Consulting works with leaders, Boards and organisations navigating growth, change and complex decisions.
McCann Advisory & Consulting brings the judgement of a former Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer together with the discipline of an accredited executive coach, for leaders, Boards and schools facing decisions where the numbers and the people both matter.
Different challenges. One connected practice.
Three core practices, connected by senior executive experience, commercial judgement, a practical understanding of leadership and a coach's instinct for the questions that matter.
Leadership & Team Development
Leadership programmes, facilitation and practical development that strengthen how people lead and work together.
Explore Leadership & Teams
Independent School Sector Advisory
Specialist strategic and financial advisory for independent schools, from new school establishment and financial viability to master planning, governance and growth.
Explore Education
Develop the leader your organisation needs.
A three day immersive programme focused on the thinking, behaviours and choices that shape how leaders communicate, take responsibility, make decisions and influence others.
For individual leaders and corporate cohorts across Australia.
When the question matters.
Clients do not always arrive with a neatly defined brief.
Sometimes a strategy needs testing before the Board commits.
Sometimes growth has created complexity the organisation was not designed for.
Sometimes a capable executive is stepping into a bigger role.
Sometimes a leadership team is not working as well together as it should.
And sometimes the numbers, the people and the strategy are telling different stories.
MA&C helps create clarity around what matters, confidence to act on what comes next, and the leadership capability to carry it through.
The Founder
Founder-led experience.
McCann Advisory & Consulting was founded by Jacquie McCann, an experienced executive, Board Director and accredited executive coach, and draws on the right advisory, coaching and specialist capability for each engagement.
The experience behind the advice.
20+ years at C-suite level
Former Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary
Current Board Director
Chair, Audit, Finance & Risk Committee
NESA-approved assessor
Financial viability of new NSW schools
Accredited executive coach
ICF and IECL certified
Associate Trainer
The Living Leader's Personal Leadership Programme
What clients say
It was a joy to work with Jacquie in the development of documentation related to the governance and financials of a new school being set up in the independent school sector and I have no hesitancy at all in recommending her. Her professionalism, her deep knowledge and understanding of these areas, and her willingness to consult and collaborate with our organisation, built confidence and trust in our team and we are grateful for her willingness to share her expertise with confidence and patience. She enabled the development of a Business Plan, a strategy for enrolments and fees, long term financial forecasting, a master plan, and documentation for the governance of our school.
Jacquie has been coaching me as a new non-executive director to guide me on my directorship path by creating a lasting first impression through preparedness around the Board table, building my confidence to ask the tough questions in a new sector and guiding me on what I should expect from a good onboarding process. I felt so prepared and at ease for my first Board meeting – all thanks to Jacquie.
Thinking worth sharing.
Practical thinking, tools and perspectives on leadership, strategy, governance and organisational change.
What are you working through?
Bring the question as it stands, whether it concerns a decision, a leadership role or a team. Defining it is part of the work.
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