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Founder and executive advisory

The behaviour underneath the business problem.

Confidence in Connection works with founders, senior leaders and leadership teams to identify the human behaviours that create friction as businesses grow.

  • Founder and executive advisory
  • Leadership workshops
  • Keynotes
  • Corporate retreats
Kirsty Jayne Tait holding a microphone during a leadership panel discussion
FounderKirsty Jayne Tait, speaker, entrepreneur, author and Human Connection Coach.

Because the behaviours that help build a business are not always the behaviours that help scale one.

The instincts that got a company off the ground rarely disappear. They simply become harder to see, and more expensive to keep.

The real problem

The visible business problem isn’t always the real problem.

  1. 01

    “We need more ownership from our leadership team.”

    Underneath

    The founder keeps overriding the decisions the team is being asked to own.

  2. 02

    “We have a communication problem.”

    Underneath

    The deeper issue is trust. Communication is only where it shows up.

  3. 03

    “We hired brilliant people.”

    Underneath

    Decisions, problems and responsibility still find their way back to the same few people.

Confidence in Connection looks at the human behaviour underneath it.

What we do

Four ways we work with leaders.

Four formats, one focus: the way the people at the top actually operate, decide and relate to each other.

01

Founder and executive advisory

One to one work with founders and senior leaders. We look at how you decide, where you hold on, what you hand over, and what happens to your leadership under pressure.

Founders and senior leaders

02

Leadership workshops

Sessions with a leadership team that surface the behaviours creating friction between people, and the trust sitting underneath them.

Leadership teams

03

Keynotes

Talks on human connection, trust and the behaviour behind the decisions leaders make, for conferences and company events.

Conferences and company events

04

Corporate retreats

Time away from the operating rhythm for a leadership team to work on how it actually functions, not how it is described on a slide.

Leadership teams, off site

Kirsty Jayne Tait on stage in conversation with a leadership panel audience

Patterns and blind spots

We help leaders recognise the patterns that may once have served them, but are now limiting their people, their leadership and the growth of the business.

How it works

We start with the behaviour, not the symptom.

Through founder and executive advisory, leadership workshops, keynotes and corporate retreats, we explore how leaders communicate, make decisions, delegate, build trust and respond under pressure.

The work is direct and it is practical. It names what is happening between people, not just what is happening on the dashboard.

  • 01How leaders communicate
  • 02How decisions get made
  • 03What actually gets delegated
  • 04How trust is built, or quietly lost
  • 05How leadership behaves under pressure
You can’t solve a business problem properly if you haven’t identified the human behaviour driving it.
Kirsty Jayne Tait, Confidence in Connection
Kirsty Jayne Tait speaking into a microphone during a panel session

The founder

Kirsty Jayne Tait

Speaker, entrepreneur, author and Human Connection Coach

Kirsty founded Confidence in Connection to work with founders and leadership teams on the human behaviour sitting underneath business performance. She works one to one with senior leaders, runs workshops and retreats with leadership teams, and speaks on stage.

Contributing authorWomen Gone Wild: Leadership Edition, Amazon #1 bestseller

Client stories

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Client work is confidential until a client says otherwise. We publish names, quotes and results only with permission, and only once the work has actually been done. Nothing here is borrowed, implied or invented. When there is something real to show, it will appear here.

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If the same decisions, problems and responsibilities keep finding their way back to the same few people, that is usually where to start. Tell us what you are seeing and we will tell you whether we can help.