MORPH CO

Unlocking Human Potential

How I can help

I help professionals navigate complexity and address adaptive challenges in their practices, careers and the human systems around them.

COACHING

Strengths-based

Solutions-focused

Recruitment support

COLLABORATING

Strategy and planning

Leading sustainable high-performance

Leading adaptive change

Keynotes and lecturing

Off-site keynotes

Conference keynotes

University lecturing

Anthony Kearns, Chief Potential Officer

Anthony Kearns is an expert facilitator, adult educator, coach and humanist who helps expert professionals navigate complexity to lead change and performance in human systems. He is also an accomplished leader in his own right, having consistently led high performing professional teams throughout his career.

Anthony has worked as a litigation lawyer, risk management consultant, OD practitioner and senior executive in insurance, large law firms and an international engineering company. He is a Senior Fellow at the Melbourne Law School where he teaches leadership as part of the Master of Law program. He has also lectured at a number of US Law Schools including Harvard where he has been a visiting lecturer since 2010 and helped design the HLS executive education program and the first law school course on the psychology of judgment and decision making.

Anthony has honours degrees in Law and Science from the Australian National University, a Master of Applied Positive Psychology (Valedictorian) from the University of Melbourne and has completed the Teaching and Learning Program at the Hasso Plattner Design School at Stanford University. He is an experienced executive coach and is accredited in Solutions-focused Coaching, Immunity to Change Facilitation, Appreciative Inquiry Facilitation, Meyer Salovey and Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), Life Styles Inventory (LSI) and Belbin Team Profile. He is also an accredited mindfulness teacher

What my clients say

Working with Anthony has been a game changer for me. His inquisitive style and measured insights enabled me to better understand my career aspirations and opportunities to improve my leadership capabilities - helping not just myself, but also my team, to be set up for success. Anthony deeply understands the legal profession and provided me with practical tools critical to life as an in-house lawyer in today’s world. He genuinely cares and characteristically goes ‘above and beyond’. Thank you Anthony, it’s been an absolute pleasure working with you.

Deputy General Counsel

Large Mining Company

Anthony is one of the most thoughtful and creative thinkers I have had the pleasure to work with. He brings an incredible combination of insightful observation, tactful honesty and genuinely new perspectives to everything he does. We worked together on some of the most complex organisational challenges I have faced in my career and Anthony's advice and counsel was invaluable. Anybody lucky enough to work with him will see positive transformation in whatever endeavour they are engaged in.

Practice Group Leader

Global Law Firm

To say Anthony is insightful is like saying Roger Federer is good at tennis. Anthony is unique in decoding the cultural and intellectual frameworks traditionally adopted by lawyers; that once made us successful but now stand in the way of our ability to respond to the adaptive challenges we face in our increasingly volatile, complex and ambiguous worlds. We were incredibly lucky to have Anthony guide our heads and deputy heads of legal through a leadership program and open our eyes and eyes to the real work to be done.

Partner

Global Law firm

Anthony represents a unique combination of expertise and experience in organisational development with a deep understanding of lawyers. He has helped us define our purpose and strategy, lift the capability and engagement of our people and redefine the role of our legal function in the University. Over the last eighteen months, he has worked closely with our leadership team and individual Directors to develop our capability in adaptive leadership, stakeholder relationship management and leading sustainable high performance. Whether he is facilitating an engaging workshop with the whole legal team or coaching an individual Director, Anthony adds value and is a pleasure to deal with.

General Counsel

International University

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Phone

+61417420524

Email

anthony@morphco.com.au