Welcome

What could we do together?

Kimberley’s coaching clients are excited by the ambition & performance they unlock working with her.

Kimberley offers both individual & executive team coaching, tailored to your needs and built upon her McKinsey Leadership experience. As well as bringing decades of practical experience she is accredited by the International Coaching Federation.

Kimberley can work with you in the following ways:

  • individual coaching is tailored to your needs, usually in a series of 3,6 or 10 sessions, either face-to-face or on Zoom

  • incoming executive coaching is most impactful face-to-face & builds a first 100 day plan

  • leadership team coaching journeys are designed to unlock excellence & create value above and beyond the contribution of any individual

Leadership coaching

Kimberley specialises where the challenges of infrastructure builds, nature, net zero & climate risk hit the practicality of implementation.

Kimberley is a Non-Executive Director of CS Energy, Chair of Southern Queensland Landscapes and Non-Executive Director of Natural Resource Management Regions Queensland.

As an independent strategic advisor, leadership facilitator and executive coach she serves government and private sector organisations on energy transition, nature, climate risk, community engagement and infrastructure topics.

She can work with you in three main ways:

  • as specialist advisor, on topics where you need a thought partner or independent view

  • by building a team with your people and adding some of our global constellation of collaborators

  • embedded for a short period to accelerate implementation

Advisory

Transformation

Riffle Advisory can help build leaders and systems that work together to transform implementation at scale.

Kimberley serves as Program Director of the UQ-Oxford Transformative Project Leaders Program, an immersive six month journey delivered in Brisbane and Oxford.

Kimberley has ‘stood up’ whole of government transformations from scratch; guided clients in their own transformation set ups, and designed ‘best of breed’ approaches to large scale land use planning; long term sustainability planning, and how whole countries can transform their economies & societies to achieve net zero.

Would love to talk to you about your ambition and how we can help.

Welcome to Riffle

Let’s explore your aspiration, get crisp on what problem you’re trying to solve, and how we could help.

We can meet for an initial conversation focused on you & your team, and discover whether there’s a good alignment of aspirations

More about Riffle Advisory

Started in early 2024 Riffle builds on decades of experience in sustainability & environmental leadership in the public sector, in consulting and advisory, and in the development of the people who will change our world. Kimberley Swords established Riffle Advisory after a long career in government and in advisory with Nous Group and McKinsey & Company.

We are:

  • Collaborators with a constellation of ‘for purpose’ experts in nature, indigenous economic development, energy transition, sustainability in infrastructure & construction and climate risk

  • Guides to individual leaders and teams, helping build aspiration & improve effectiveness

  • Thought leaders in public sector sustainability and infrastructure

  • Part of the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits advising the UN on governance and integrity of emerging biodiversity markets

  • Members of the Taskforce for Nature Related Financial Disclosures advising on how companies can reduce their impact on nature

  • Partners with the EIANZ and academics, bringing practical leadership and commercial skills into leaders’ thinking

  • Anchored in agile, aspiration building and transformation from our time with McKinsey & Company

We are members of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand

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