Company Overview

Established in 1997, Gen Group Consultants combines the expertise of experienced strategists, HR professionals, business executives
and consultants from leading international corporations and consultancies.

We have created a new paradigm to focus on driving leadership performance within organisations.

Our goal is to assist leaders to build new organisational value through people, which provides ability to adapt to constantly changing
market and business conditions.

The primary focus is strategic, assisting leaders of organisations to manage and motivate people to achieve great things.

Performance relies on being able to move quickly to achieve buy-in and commitment from staff and build a coalition around a vision. This means relying heavily on existing resources to make the first key steps.

An organisation requires Leadership to perform

Gen Group Consultants combines economics with psychology to create unique expertise in being able to drive performance in
organisations. We have backgrounds in psychology as well as MBAs.

Gen Group has worked with senior executives from corporations in Australia, USA, and Europe.

Expertise

• Ryszard (Ryk) Bliszczyk - Leadership Psychologist
  M.Sc. (psychology), MBA (Melb), MBA (Chicago)
  

  With over 18 years experience as a strategy and human capital consultant, (including positions with three of the world's premier consulting firms and building his own successful consulting business) Ryk has spent most of his professional career advising companies around the globe. He has brought his many years of strategy and business experience together, with his unique insights into human behaviour gained as a clinical psychologist, to continue supporting corporate leaders with services in leadership development.

  Ryk combines economic insight and psychological therapy to provide uniquely individual analysis of leadership skills and behaviour within the corporate setting. His advice is particularly valuable for those leaders and leadership aspirants in transition (promotion, changing jobs, moving on, personal crises) crafting solutions based on a unique approach to leadership based on the dictum ­ "One cannot become a great leader of others until one is a great leader of oneself".

  Typically, executive coaches use simple behaviour modification techniques to change behaviours. This is a standard approach that inevitably results in only limited success.

  Standard approaches ignore the very real potential for personality or mental health issues to be a factor in leadership behaviour. Recent studies¹ have found that between 25% and 50% of individuals presenting for coaching meet clinical mental health criteria.

  It is essential that, for real leadership development to occur, we must be able to distinguish lack of skill and/or experience from behaviour resulting from an individual's psychology - which may include personality disorders, mental health problems, lack of self awareness and poor ability to empathise.

  Ryk's approach is to seek out the fundamental drivers of behaviour in managers and leaders aiming to address all aspects of an individual's capabilities that are limiting success. As a registered psychologist he is qualified to administer a variety of tests and therapies to this end.

  The aim is to teach leaders to take active responsibility for their own actions and relationships, further developing their leadership skills as they grow into their roles.

  Ryk maintains membership of the Australian Davos Connection, Australian Psychological Society and Australian Institute of Company Directors; and is formally registered to practise as a Psychologist in Victoria.

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  ¹ Grant, A.M. & O'Hara, B. The self presentation of commercial Australian life coaching schools: Cause for concern? International Coaching Psychology Review, 1(2), 21-32.