Archetype combines world-class leadership and leadership team development with extensive senior real-world leadership experience.

Archetype designs and delivers leadership development, leadership team coaching and ‘beyond team building’ team development.

By blending evidence-based insights, frameworks and tools with extensive real-world experience Archetype helps transform leaders and teams in private and public organisations in New Zealand and Australia.

Tony Gardner

Leadership Development + Team Coaching Facilitator, Consultant, Speaker

Tony is an experienced, sought-after leadership and team development facilitator and consultant. He combines over 20 years of real-world leadership experience in New Zealand, Europe, Australia, and Asia with best-practice leadership and team development.

Tony works across a broad range of industries and sectors. He has extensive experience working with leaders in professional services industries, including law and accountancy, and a range of other sectors from high-end tech to public sector organisations.

Tony’s blend of real-world experience, leadership and team development expertise, and learning and development skillset, empowers leaders and teams of all levels to grow. His experience and expertise are supplemented by post-graduate studies in organisational psychology.

Tony combines facilitation with mentoring, coaching, and a genuine desire to see people grow through an engaging, motivating journey.

Tony has guided organisations in crises, through challenge and reinvention, and to world-class achievements. In 23 years of active leadership, he has learned valuable lessons from success and failure which inform his facilitation and consulting.

“I have worked with Tony for a number of years now and he has worked extensively with a range of leadership teams in our organisation to provide coaching to them to bring about collective high performance. His impact has been in bringing teams and team members together and assisting to guide the organisation to strong and collaborative working ways. As a former Chief Executive Tony has real-world experience and practicality.”

— Chief executive, large government agency

“Tony was a very good fit for us culturally. His ability to deliver across multiple levels of experience and seniority is impressive. Tony moved this experience from a four-day course to a change in behaviours that resonate long beyond the last day.”

— Nathan Cheeseman, CEO XE.COM Australasia