Tipping Point Leadership Advisory
& Talent Solutions
There’s almost always more capacity in people and organisations than they’ve had the chance to discover.
Most leaders know this. They sense the gap between where they are and where they could be — in themselves, in their teams, and across their organisations. The question is rarely whether the gap exists. It’s how to identify it clearly enough to take the steps to close it.
Tipping Point works with senior leaders, teams and organisations to close the gap
Our work is bespoke, evidence-based, and built around your specific situation - not just a framework applied to it.
We’re a strong fit if…
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You’re a senior leader who has outgrown your current operating model
The skills that got you to where you are now aren’t the ones that will take you into the future. The higher you go, the less your technical expertise differentiates you and the more everything depends on how you lead, decide, and influence. We work with you to develop your leadership impact and effectiveness.
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Your team has the talent but not the performance
The individuals are capable but the collective isn’t delivering to the sum of its parts. Something in the dynamic is getting in the way and it’s rarely what it looks like on the surface. We work with teams to identify what’s getting in the way and to build the conditions for sustained high performance.
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You’re making critical talent decisions without the data to back them
Succession, recruitment, development — most organisations make these calls on instinct and relationship, which is a fragile basis for decisions with real consequences. We use structured assessment to give organisations a clear, evidence-based read on leadership capability and a data informed view of the developmental pathway forward.
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Your organisation is performing - but not at the level you know it’s capable of
Delivering on strategy depends on capability yet most organisations can't say with confidence what they actually have, or where the gaps sit. TalentJam provides capability intelligence — a continually updated picture of what they can execute and deliver on now, and what needs to be built — taking the guesswork out of critical people decisions.
Services
Three ways to work together. One approach.
Leadership Advisory
Senior leaders rarely lack capability. What they often lack is a trusted thinking partner who understands their world, will tell them the truth, and has the depth to work through what’s actually at stake. Our leadership advisory and executive coaching work is one-to-one, confidential, and built entirely around your specific situation. No frameworks imposed. No generic advice. Just rigorous, evidence-based work on the decisions, transitions, and dynamics that matter most to your performance and your future.
High Performance
High performing teams don't happen by accident — and they rarely fail for the reasons that appear on the surface. We work with teams to identify what's actually driving performance, surface the dynamics that are getting in the way, and build the conditions for sustained collective effectiveness. Often, the team's own understanding of itself shifts before anything else does.
Talent Jam
Most organisations have more capability in their people than they can see. TalentJam gives organisations the data infrastructure to change that — building a clear, evidence-based picture of the skills and capability they already have, where the gaps are, and what it would take to close them. The result is talent decisions made on evidence rather than instinct, and a talent strategy that keeps pace with organisational ambition. Learn More >
Practitioner
AND Architect
Most advisors work at one level - the individual, the team or the organisation.
The insight that drives Tipping Point is that high performance at any one level is shaped by conditions at all three. A leader’s effectiveness is inseparable from the team they operate in. A team’s performance is inseparable from the organisational systems around it.
Tipping Point is built to work across all three - advising and developing leaders individually, building the conditions for high performance in teams, and giving organisations the data infrastructure to see and develop capability at scale through TalentJam.
What this looks like
At the individual level
senior leaders receive rigorous, bespoke advisory support that goes beyond coaching. Strategic counsel on decisions, transitions, succession, and organisational design, from someone who has operated inside the industries they serve.
At the team
level
leadership teams are worked with diagnostically and developmentally. Understanding what’s actually driving or limiting performance before determining what needs to change.
At the organisation
level
through TalentJam, organisations build a clear, evidence-based picture of the capability they have, where the gaps are, and what it would take to close them. Talent decisions made on data rather than instinct.
the average return on investment organisations report from executive coaching.
(Pricewaterhouse Coopers & ICF)
increase in employee retention rates.
(Kapable, 2025)
of workers have skills their organisation can’t see from their qualifications or job history.
(World Economic Forum, 2024)
higher earnings per share in companies where talented managers increase and employee engagement doubles.
(Gallup)
of employees say they are more likely to stay with an organisation that invests in their career development. (LinkedIn Learning)
of CEOs say talent gaps represent the top business challenge their companies face. (BCG, 2023)
About Us
Tipping Point was founded on a simple observation: the most interesting challenges in leadership development show up at both the individual and organisational level, and the two are rarely addressed together.
Catherine Andersen has spent three decades working at that intersection. Her work spans executive coaching, leadership advisory, and talent development - with individuals, teams, and organisations navigating the moments that matter most: leadership transitions, succession planning, and performance challenges that resist straightforward solutions.
Tipping Point works in partnership with Reframe Coaching and Leadership on executive development and team programs. As a Strategic Partner with Next Generation Performance, we bring a high performance lens grounded in neuroscience to our leadership and team work. Catherine also serves as Managing Director of TalentJam, an online capability intelligence platform - extending the practice’s reach from individual and team development to organisational capability at scale.
THE TEAM
Catherine Andersen
Catherine Andersen is a leadership and talent strategist with over three decades of experience spanning executive coaching, leadership advisory, and talent development. She works with executives, teams, and organisations across a broad range of industries — in Australia, Asia-Pacific, and globally.
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Her expertise covers executive coaching, leadership assessment, succession planning, board effectiveness, and capability building. She brings a distinctive combination of in-house talent leadership, global executive search, and leadership advisory experience — giving her both operational and strategic insight into what drives effective leadership and organisational performance.
Catherine holds qualifications from INSEAD including the Coaching Certificate, Advanced Coaching with Groups, Leading Across Borders and Cultures, and a Certificate in Global Management. She is certified in Hogan Assessments and Human Synergistics (LSI, GSI, OCI), and draws on a range of evidence-based frameworks including Immunity to Change, Competing Values, and Paradoxical Mindshift Navigation in her practice.
She is the founder of Tipping Point Leadership Advisory & Talent Solutions and serves as Managing Director of TalentJam, an online skills intelligence platform.
Peter Cumming
Peter Cumming PCC is an organisational coach with over two decades of experience in investment management across private and government sectors. He works with individuals, teams, and organisations on leadership behaviour, strategic thinking, culture, change management, and career development — from emerging leaders through to CEOs and executives.
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His investment management background gives him a distinctive lens on organisational culture and performance, which he combines with high levels of empathy and a systems-oriented approach to coaching. Peter holds an Executive Master in Change from INSEAD and is a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation.
His qualifications span organisational coaching, finance, accountancy, and theology — reflected in the breadth of frameworks he brings to complex leadership and organisational challenges, including Immunity to Change, Paradoxical Mindshift Navigation, Navigating Tensions and the Competing Values Framework.
Peter collaborates with Tipping Point through Reframe Coaching and Leadership.
Case Studies
Tipping Point Insights
