EMPOWER LEADERS.
UNITE TEAMS.
DRIVE STRATEGY.
We create Thriving Cultures by developing confident leaders and united teams.
Leading through Complexity
Rapid change, siloed teams, unclear priorities, and competing agendas can overwhelm even experienced leaders. We help them focus, communicate with impact, and unite teams around what matters most even during change.
Strategy Fails without Accountability
Even the best plans fall flat when teams aren’t aligned or empowered. We help leaders build cultures where strategy comes to life—through shared goals, stakeholder alignment, honest feedback, and clear ownership.
Turn Chaos into Cohesion
Imagine confident leaders who coach through complexity, cohesive teams operating cross-functionally to deliver on strategy, and a culture where psychological safety fuels high performance. That’s the future we help you create.
Leadership Isn’t a Soft Skill—It’s a Business Imperative
Data shows poor leadership hits productivity, profits, and retention hard.
The High Cost of Poor Leadership
37% Less Productivity
Disengaged teams result from ineffective leadership..
Replacing One Employee Costs Up to 200% of Their Salary
Turnover driven by poor management is expensive and avoidable.
79% of Employees Quit Their Manager—Not Their Job
Lack of appreciation and weak leadership are top drivers of attrition.
Low Engagement = 21% Lower Profitability
Teams without strong leadership drag down company results.
2.3x Higher Revenue Growth
Companies with leadership training outperform others.
Sources: Gallup, Forbes, Leadership HQ,Test Gorilla, Saville Assessment (2023–2024)
These numbers tell a clear story, leadership development changes everything, from engagement and retention to strategy execution and culture.
The impact is clear—strong leadership translates to better business outcomes.
Ready to elevate the leadership capability within your organisation?
CLAIRE GRAY
Your Strategic Partner in Leadership & Team Performance
Claire Gray brings over two decades of experience helping leaders cut through complexity and build cultures where strategy and people thrive together.
With a deep background in organisational development, Claire helps leadership teams bridge the gap between intent and execution—turning strategic vision into practical momentum. She’s known for bringing clarity to complexity, aligning leaders around what matters most, and creating the conditions for accountability and performance to flourish.
At Thriving Culture, Claire works directly with clients—offering grounded, high-impact programs that elevate leadership capability, build strong team dynamics, and drive lasting organisational change.
For Leaders
For Teams
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The Book – Thriving Leaders
Often, leaders with solid experience and technical capabilities are promoted into leadership positions. They find themselves leading a team and facing a variety of situations never previously encountered.
This is why I decided to write this book. Time and time again, leaders come to me with a lack of confidence in their leadership abilities. I want to help change this for as many people as possible. To do this, I have compiled the leadership content, frameworks, practical tools and theory that I use every day in my Thriving Leaders Program.
This book brings together many leadership and high-performing team theories and my own extensive experience working with leaders to bring out their best. Most importantly, this book is actionable, which means you can practise and implement the techniques in your daily life.
By the end of this book, you will have the skills you need to lead confidently. You will and learn how to bring out these skills in others so you can create high-performing, cohesive and engaged teams.
Claire
Claire is trusted by
Real Results, Real Returns
Happy Participants
When you invest in your leaders, the results ripple across the business—better culture, stronger performance, and people who want to stay and grow.
The CEO Masterclass has impacted my leadership by really giving me implementable tools, that had an immediate positive impact. As a group we were able to be candid and honest with each other about where we sat in our business and where our businesses sat, the things we needed to learn. Having those peers to talk to has been incredible.
I have found this program to be one of the most effective training I have had in my business journey. It is hands-on and practical.
The surprising part about the course was the comradery. And to be honest, the retention rate - how everyone stayed engaged. Like, really engaged…It was a really content rich course and I’m probably going to have two years of implementation coming to me, but the best thing was, I realised, okay this is my job now…my job is to look for opportunity in all the issues in my organisation.
It was thorough and extremely meaningful for our group's challenges and needs. Extremely well curated and delivered. I learnt more from this class than I have over years of study.
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Let’s Build Your Future Together.
Your leaders and teams are the backbone of your business. When they thrive, your entire organisation thrives. If you’re ready to invest in the future of your leaders and teams, let’s start a conversation. Together, we can create the conditions for your business to not just survive—but truly thrive.
Thriving Culture would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land where we live and work, the Bundjalung nation of the Arakwal people, and pay respects to elders, past, present and future.
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