About SOSA

Not your average
people and culture story.

We led teams before we consulted to them. Big difference.

We inherited broken teams. Made the wrong promotion call. Avoided the hard conversation one week too long and spent the next three months cleaning it up.

Other consultants arrive with a program. We arrived with battle scars.

SAME
HUMANS.
DIFFERENT
UNIFORMS.
Alicia Savage facilitating a leadership and team development session
Where it started

It started in a
school staffroom.
(Where else?)

Eleven years across four schools. More staff meetings than should be legally permitted and approximately two thousand cups of terrible staffroom coffee.

Our founder, Alicia, built her leadership career inside the Queensland Department of Education, moving from classroom teacher through to Deputy Principal.

In practice, that meant leading people, managing performance, navigating change and building leadership capability while the resources were stretched and the to-do list never ended.

“
If you can lead well in a high-pressure, resource-stretched, deeply human environment, you can lead well anywhere.
The pattern

The strategy gets written.
Nobody explains it.

The strategy
gets written. Nobody
explains it.
→
Leadership
breaks down. Communication
unravels.
→
Good people
check out. The team
closes ranks.
→
Nothing
gets said. Patterns
form.
→
Patterns
form. Nobody
examines them.
Nobody examines them.
Same story. Different uniforms.

Construction sites, banking floors,
school staffrooms, retail back-offices.

People are people whether they are wearing hi-vis or a lanyard or a blazer they only iron for client meetings.

Construction
Financial
services
Education
Business
SAME
HUMANS.
DIFFERENT
UNIFORMS.

The same patterns keep showing up.

  • 01 Communication gets messy
  • 02 Expectations become unclear
  • 03 Leaders carry too much
  • 04 Teams stop taking ownership
  • 05 Strategy gets lost in the day-to-day
Why SOSA exists

So she stopped waiting for
someone else to do it differently.

Enough was enough. Alicia built SOSA.
Done with

the workshop that changes nothing.

Done with

the recycled slide deck.

Done with

“let's all just communicate better.”

Done with

the consultant who disappears after delivery.

Leadership
Communication
Strategy
Not the first rodeo.

The science and the lived experience arrived together.

15+
Years leading
50+
Teams
6+
Years specialist
development
ACC
ICF accredited

Across construction, financial services, education, retail, government and growing businesses, we've designed, facilitated and coached teams and leaders to build stronger people performance.

The SOSA pledge

Seven things we
won’t compromise on.

01 We will never treat people and performance as competing priorities.
02 We will always run the diagnostic first.
03 We will never deliver a generic program.
04 We will design around the specific humans in the room.
05 We will stay involved long enough for the change to stick.
06 We will measure what's actually working.
07 We will work ourselves out of a job.

Glad you made
it this far.

The first step is a team assessment.

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