About Us

Four Smith Avenue is a boutique management consulting company located in Brisbane. Since we started in 2017, our focus has been clear, to help our clients to "cultivate’ their futures. For us “Cultivating Futures” encompasses optimism, sustainability and focuses on creating better futures. It means nurturing growth, facilitating learning, enabling new thinking, fostering agility, and inspiring passion in individuals and leaders.

We are passionate about what we do and we believe that nobody understands or is more passionate about your business or your career aspirations than you. That is why our approach is to work in partnership with you to design practical strategies tailored towards your unique goals.

Our core values - Vulnerability, Authenticity, Understanding, Learning, and Empowerment - guide our interactions and decisions. These embody our commitment to our clients and our solutions.

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Our Experience

Our consultants have extensive backgrounds in executive leadership roles spanning diverse portfolios and industries. With a reputation for delivering high performance and sustainable results, they bring invaluable practical experience to our work.

People & Culture Change

  • Leadership Coaching

  • Application of Neuroscience in Leadership

  • Psychological Safety

  • Facilitation

  • Team Building Programs

Business Performance

  • Strategy and Business Planning

  • Business Transformation

  • Program Management

  • Project Delivery

  • Fleet Management

  • Asset Management

  • Operations

Accreditations

  • PRISM Brain Mapping

  • Conductor Software TM (Psychological Safety Survey)

Our Approach

At Four Smith Avenue, we are committed to empowering our clients to achieve sustainable success. Our approach is grounded in the principle of providing tangible and practical solutions that enable our clients to take action.  

Driven by our purpose, Cultivating Futures, we integrate the latest findings to connect the neuroscience of leadership with business practice. By connecting theory and real-world application, we provide strategies that enhance business performance through improved alignment, engagement and collaboration.

Together we collaborate with our clients create future-ready workplaces that are enablers of great performance, leveraging the collective strengths of every individual within the organisation.

Our Team

Jane Smith - Managing Director

Jane has spent nearly two decades in executive and senior leadership roles successfully and practically applying the principles upon which she now advises in her coaching and management consultancy. She improves business performance through transformational change programs, business strategy facilitation, process reengineering and cultural improvement. 

Jane’s passion for helping others is about “cultivating futures” and this is at the forefront of her work.  As a coach and consultant, Jane empowers people and teams to own their successes and confidently drive their growth and performance. Using the neuroscience of leadership, she firmly believes in supporting her clients to take personal accountability, because ultimately a person is the most passionate advocate and enabler for their success. 

Jane has an Advanced Diploma of Neuroscience in Leadership, a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Sociology, is an Accredited Professional Conductor Software (Psychological Safety) and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In conjunction with her corporate career experience, she has been a Director in the not-for-profit sector.